Album Notes

'Joan Baez meets Spaghetti Westerns - These are songs to ride away on!'

I first sang around the campfire and that's the feel I aimed for in these songs: just a beautiful melody, a glimmering guitar, and lyrics that paint the dark with stories. Sometimes there may be one or two other instruments doing a solo, somewhere out there in the shadows. These story-songs came to me in the canyons, rivers and ghost towns of Wyoming, Arizona, Utah and Idaho. I want the listener to feel swept away to these places and stirred by the stories they tell. Is there anything better than sitting on your porch with a whisky and a map of Indian Country, losing yourself in names like 'Lost Creek', 'Grey Mountain' and 'White Horse Lake', and dreaming of the road ahead? These are songs for the firelight, songs for the starlight, songs to ride away on...