This song recounts a trip Ric and his wife Karyn (who gave the song it’s title) took through Tennessee and the Mississippi Delta in 2017
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Composed by Ric Albano on March 3, 2023
From the EP Novel Perceptions by Sinclair Soul
Released on October 4, 2024
Musicians
Ric Albano – acoustic & electric guitars, bass, vocals
Ron Simasek – drums
Lyrics
You and I together, sliding through the muddy Delta calm
The first of seven Southern sojourns, composing modern psalms
Capturing the spirits and wonders of this land
Sampling native flavors, treading many different sands
The songs of the local waters, the tones of local bands
Ghosts at the piano, rich spirits within that white room
Frozen fingers figit for fair flying foul, flocking foul flutters of flume
The Godmother sings a final song through the haunting winds outside
Giving some perspective on the fragility of life
Four plus forty-four and ever grateful to the core
Looking left and looking right
Seeing many faces to adore day and night
With an ax christened by legacy, refreshing breaths of possibility
As we flow like water through the subtle cracks of the country
Whistle stops, nature trails, monuments and majestic sails
As we seep like air through the lungs of reality
It was all real, Lord, this was so real
© 2023-2025 Ric Albano and Cygnus Wave Records
Track 2 of 5 from Novel Perceptions (EP) by Sinclair Soul (2024)
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