Dirty Nails, Dirty Wheels

This song has made me cry just about every time I’ve listened to it.

It’s generally about mountaintop removal coal mining (a dryer explanation, if you prefer), but specifically about this.

The album version has multiple instruments, and they’re arranged really well. This solo guitar version is really good too.

Caroline Herring, Black Mountain Lullabye.

From a dear—and tremendously multitalented—friend of mine:

ejlandsman:

I have been TERRIBLE about posting regularly.  Sorry guys!  To beg forgiveness, here is a sneak peek of the reason I’ve been gone—a track off of my band’s soon-to-be-out album, Skip!  We are called Skolkis, and all four of us—plus the various people helping us produce this album—have been an insane blur of recording, rehearsing, fine-tuning, nit-picking, etc, for the past two months, coming to a head in the past two weeks or so.  I’ve been designing the album art, which is fun and challenging and frustrating, and has commanded ALL of my time.  All the files have to be in to the printers in the next few days, so I should be back on track with art soon enough.

We’ll be performing and selling our CD at Northwest Folklife, so come say hi!  This track is called Kalla Kårår, which means ‘cold shivers’. :)