Perhaps a year later, Swamp Ophelia was released and handed me a new part of my future. They traded visions, supporting and collaborating, but each voice had its own say. Poring over the liner notes, I was struck by the fact that they did not co-write the songs. They sang like Southerners, too, but this sounded nothing like country music. And when their voices joined, the air in the room changed. Ray could swagger, growl, and belt-she could laugh without slipping off the note. Saliers’ voice could soar into delicate high notes, vulnerable but assured, strong even in the quietest measures. Emily Saliers and Amy Ray sang like women I might want to become. Later, to spin the album, context-less and unGoogleable, and find a roadside shaman named Chickenman, a vertigo-inducing plane ride, and a rowdy swipe at Nashville that this restless native was ready to hear.īut their voices were the true source of revelation. To rummage in the bins of Phonoluxe down on grubby Nolensville Road, the summertime I was fifteen, and to conjure up that album-titled Rites of Passage, as if this moment couldn’t get any sweeter. To be that young teenager, disgruntled and lost. It might, given the chance, begin to improvise. That raised-up voice might start to get ideas. But no choir to be found-to raise any voice above the congregation’s was to risk a slippery path toward worldly vice, toward vanity or individualism. Four-part, shaped-note, a cappella, wooden pew. Look Long is available now, and can be bought here.In which Emily Choate considers the life of an album that, for one reason or another, went overlooked …īy Emily Choate, Peauxdunque Review Fiction Editor The two told KCRW that they act as “a liaison between Indian communities and non-Indian communities.” The band has worked with Honor the Earth since its founding, performing benefits concerts, and helping to raise money and awareness about their Indigenous environmental activism, and currently serve on its board. Through their livestreams, the duo had previously raised $400,000 for Honor the Earth and the Southern foodbank Feeding the Valley. “My advice would be to recognize that every single problem, either societally or interpersonally, is exacerbated by the quarantine,” says Saliers, of the livestream, “We can do small things for people in need, and try to be loving and patient in our own home environments.”
It will be presented in classic radio-style, reading dedications on-air and performing new songs, with all proceeds going to the Indigenous-led organization Honor the Earth, which they co-founded with Winona Laduke in 1993. The duo hosted an inaugural “all-dedication” livestream on July 16 and announced a second one to follow on August 7. It was directed by Sozo Bear, who has previously worked with Amy Ray on the visuals for her solo album Holler. The video was filmed in Georgia (where the duo hail from) at an old mill. It is the power behind social movements and spiritual freedom.” Still, if we are in a relationship with love and justice, we can accomplish the utmost in human endeavor. “We can draw from and use the mind-bending power of love, but we are not the ones who create that power. “‘Change My Heart’ is about the intersection between spirituality and the physical world,” she told Rolling Stone. Saliers says she wrote the track after watching the documentary Inner Worlds Outer World.
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