Songs for Saturday: Grandeur

[mdlbear]

So the idea of "spirituality" has been in my mind, and to some extent in my journal, where I wrote "Is looking up at the night sky a spiritual practice?" I was remembering, in particular, the night N, Colleen and I came back to the house on Whidbey Island one night not too long after we'd bought the place -- the sky was spectacularly clear, and for a long while we all just looked up and got lost in the depths of it.

Songs came up in my discussion with EG yesterday, in a somewhat different context, and afterward I thought about what songs inspire the kind of awe and grandeur that those stars did.

The first song I thought of was Don Simpson's Ship of Stone. The second was Dave Carter's When I Go. The third was also by Dave Carter -- Lord of the Buffalo. Which I haven't done as a s4s, so I'll just link to Tracy Grammer's cover of it.

(You can also find considerably rougher versions by Kaleidofolk at Or-E-Con 2, 2022 and Lookingglass Folk at Conflikt 2012. Not necessarily recommended unless you're a completist.)

Comments

[andyheninger]

Thanks for the pointer to Lord of the Buffalo, which I very much enjoyed. Not a song that I knew.

Brought to mind Ken Burns' relatively recent documentary "The American Buffalo", a film I also enjoyed and recommend. Check you local library, they may have the DVD available to borrow. Or, if you happen to be a member of PBS, you can stream it there. https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-buffalo/