Martha Scanlan

Tongue River Stories: Autumn

MS-001

$ 5.00

DETAILS

TRACKS

Angle Of Repose
The Meadow
Guardian Angel
Invisible Man
October

RELEASE DATE

02/25/2011

Martha Scanlan's Tongue River Stories is a stunning and stark portrait of one of the last truest vestiges of the cowboy culture of the west, and somehow a natural progression from The West Was Burning. Where The West Was Burning may have evoked western landscapes, Tongue River Stories takes the listener deep into the heart of the landscape itself; the meadows and cottonwood groves and decades-old cabin where the songs were written and recorded, a world so vast and quiet that such on-site recording is possible.

Songs for this project were born out of a landscape where arrowheads lie next to fossils next to hundred-year-old cedar fence posts alongside tracks of horses set rock solid in the mud from the last good rain. Stories inside of stories inside of stories.

The gift of a great storyteller is the bringing of the listener into the story, and the story into the listener. It's not just the words of the songs in this collection that provide that rare lasting transformative alchemy that has become so characteristic of Martha Scanlan's work, and earned her the small loyal cult following that seems to be steadily growing. It’s the space between the words, the sound of the place itself.