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1.
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Synco'pation
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(4:03)
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2.
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Bitter Harvest
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(11:18)
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3.
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Mountain's Call
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(7:57)
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4.
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Spring Is Here
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(4:13)
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5.
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Touch Of Gold
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(6:16)
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6.
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Lydia
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(6:46)
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7.
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Whispers
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(6:06)
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8.
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We Shall Overcome
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(2:32)
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9.
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Goodbye
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(1:25)
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10.
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Wings
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(4:25)
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11.
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Whispers (First Take)
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(5:24)
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Synco'pation is a basic 12-bar blues. It's got a strong rhythm to it, which gives me the chance to fly off in a lot of directions while still maintaining a strong sense of structure. Bitter Harvest began as three different pieces which I eventually combined into one. I got the idea for the opening riff the day after having seen Erin McKeown perform "Blackbirds." It's several variations in the key of F, sliding in and out major and minor modes.
Mountain's Call, Lydia and Spring is Here evolved from a free-form improv, built around simple introductory themes. We Shall Overcome is a song from the Civil Rights movement, which was based on a 1901 song by Charles Albert Tindley. This is one of a great many variations on it. Touch of Gold was an experiment of mine in which I wanted to try to create a song using an ancient tonal scale while still sounding modern. I threw Goodbye in as a sort of quiet resolution to the whole album. Then, being never entirely satisfied, I was playing around before packing up the recording equipment and suddenly Wings appeared out of nowhere. This is the very first take of it, and it's better than a lot of pieces after I've reworked them a dozen times.
And then there's Whispers...
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