Sunday, November 25, 2018

A review of a Gregory Alan Isakov concert

"Gregory Alan Isakov fills Royale with folk-music while supporting latest album" Morgan Hume

Can never pass up any opportunity to post this Isakov song:


"remember when our songs were just like prayers. 
like gospel hymns that you called in the air. 
come down come down sweet reverence, 
unto my simple house and ring… 
and ring. 

ring like silver, ring like gold 
ring out those ghosts on the ohio ring 
like clear day wedding bells 
were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell…we’ll never tell. 

come to me clear and cold on some sea 
watch the world spinning waves…like some machine 

now i’ve been crazy couldn’t you tell 
i threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell 
now i’m covered up in straw, belly up on the table 
well i drank and sang, and passed in the stable. 

that tall grass grows high and brown, 
well i dragged you straight in the muddy ground 
and you sent me back to where i roam 
well i cursed and i cried, but now i know…now i know 

and i ran back to that hollow again 
the moon was just a sliver back then 
and i ached for my heart like some tin man 
when it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang…

it’s ringing ring like crazy, ring like hell 
turn me back into that wild haired gale 
ring like silver, ring like gold 
turn these diamonds straight back into coal."

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