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The Avowal 01:23
1. The Avowal Poem by Denise Levertov As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and waters bear them, as hawks rest upon air and air sustains them, so must I learn to attain free fall and float into Creator's embrace, knowing no effort earns that all-sustaining grace.
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Wild Acre 02:50
Keep a wild acre alive in your love Keep a wild acre, give it room to run Keep a wild acre, beauty's just begun Keep a wild acre alive, alive in your love. Maybe winds will blow Maybe seeds will fall Who knows what love can grow When those seeds are cracking open by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan (River's Voice Music/ASCAP) and Jake Armerding (Joekline Music/BMI) © 2013
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3. The Soul Awakes and Sings ‘Neath the shimmer of this veil lies a secret worn so thin: At home on this soil and under this sky yet and exile in my skin Time will strike a match to the maps before your eyes. It's a cruel reverse, some things get lost and some things can't survive Even under its burden the soul awakes and sings, The soul awakes, soul awakes and sings. One tossed coin will alter the center of gravity Ready or not, we're threads of the one and you're not separate from me Fare thee well to the life I had in mind Steady my pace, keep my gaze on the horizon line Can't un-know what you know Nor blind your witness eyes Turn it again, inside out, and build yourself a life In the woods of old Bhutan fall asleep to an ancient hymn and the wise ones say you'll catch a glimpse of your soul as it's always been Words and music by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan © 2013 River's Voice Music, ASCAP
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Paper Wings 03:25
4. Paper Wings May is dressed in Juniper Meadowlark overture Waits for her measure and sings Chemicals and mysteries Spinning invisible Grasshopper opens her wings Everything's moving all the time Every shout comes down to a whisper Flying so high just to crash back down I know you've gone off to multiply and divide and you don't like what you see inside When did you lose your faith? When did your angel fall? Maybe you're the angel we're waiting for Maybe you're an acrobat Maybe a physicist I think you're wiser than time With an open hand I trust the world to spin As this old world will spin anyway It's a fragile enterprise: we all fly on paper wings Words and music by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan (River's Voice Music/ASCAP) and Jake Armerding (Joekline Music/BMI) © 2013
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Cracked 03:14
5. Cracked Caught, blood on my hands Ain't no washing it off Backed into a corner Covered in my blind spots It's all gone, it's all gone I'm cracked Held it together far too long Now there's no holding back No holding back Hunted up the hill Into the belly of the cave Darkness, come and eat me, I'm tired of all this brave There's no such thing as home free But all your stories have lost their sting There's nothing left that you can do to me It's time for this old bird to sing See, hands in the air I've got nothing to hide Stretched out on your table Naked of all my pride Music and lyrics by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan © 2013 River's Voice Music, ASCAP
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Keep Moving 07:58
6. Keep Moving For Marianne, wise and brave. It is a myth that if you're young your life will not pass before your eyes. Night shells, spot on; I swear we were all but gone. Family of five, women and girls are we: Tanta, Oma and Mutti, baby Gabriella, and me. Our papa got caught in the fury, he's fighting, off fighting, and Opa lay under the snow, so we hitched our lives to this cart. A fleeing frenzy, toward the West we must go. January Minus 20 East Prussia, 1945 Only one way to survive: Keep moving. I have heard them talking when they think I am asleep, horrors committed by soldiers against us refugees. We're running out of options, the Red Army above and behind chasing us off the end of the world and onto the cold and brittle ice. What will be our fate tonight? Keep moving. Mine are the only feet still able to make this passage across this frozen highway of this midnight Baltic Sea. So, reins in my hand, leading this horse and cart with my family in tow, ankles two feet down in water feeling for bomb craters in the ice below. Fathers failing. Babies broken. Mothers mourning. Will you eat us all alive? Keep moving. Hold on, Love… I am holding together what alone can not bridge this divide. By what grace do we stand? Three women and and one child. Music and lyrics by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan © 2013 River's Voice Music, ASCAP
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7. Where I'm Going One lark lifting her lovely voice wakes the heart up singing. Joins in in a morning chorus, exultation ringing. I'll take a little of that bird song, bright as the treetops glowing, play it back in my ear every morn, I'm gonna need that where I'm going. Little brook, you're a Catskills stream sprung up over the hill. Tumbling down with the blue around, you give this city its fill. Fill my vessel with your cool waters. My thirst has been growing. Wet my lips, wet my mouth, I'm gonna need that where I'm going. Where I'm going, where I'm going, Oh, may it be so, That I have the saints of all the earth With me where I'm going. Old willow draped over water, Gnarled up like a prayer. Wind twisted the shape she's in, but she's laughing the breeze through her hair. I'll take the tree in the reach of my body, my branches knowing how to bend without giving in, I'm gonna need that where I'm going. My heart's busted open in beauty, grieving my friends gone home. I've been too sad to get on but I guess it's time to go. I move in an exultation, my mind exploding with the voices of my loves singing me where I'm going. Music and lyrics by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan © 2013 River's Voice Music, ASCAP
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8. I Like Your Body I like your body stretched out next to me Nobody sleeping, nobody hiding I keep your worry down here beside me I hold your restless here in my chest Lay me down on this bed of riverland Take me how you do Your eyes shimmer sky Your face awash in blue I like your body in all of its glory In all of its beauty, baby, have mercy I’ve got your gospel shivering through me I know you know me truer than true Shoulders are opening, poetry sloping Rock me and roll me through waters so holy I see new country shining before me A land that was promised, a promise made good So good Words and music by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan (River's Voice Music/ASCAP) and Jake Armerding (Joekline Music/BMI) © 2013
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You've Got a Story You've got a story, don't you? I can see the miles in your eyes. You've worked real hard to get where you are, Yeah, you've worked real hard, I know you're a star You've got a story, don't you? Worn around the edges and faded red: Just the way I like it. I can't say you look the way you did the day that you were new. Hey, that's okay, I've grown too. I can fit with you. You've got a story, don't you? I can see the longing in your eyes You've loved real hard to get where you are Yeah, you've loved real hard, I know you're a star. You've got a story, don't you? You've got a story, don't you. I can see the mischief in your eyes. You've played real hard to get where you are. Yeah, you've played real hard, I know you're a star. Shadow in your shiny of your leather soul, Just the way I like it. You don't polish up the way you did the day that you were new. Well, I'm unfinished, too, I can fit with you. Words and music by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan (River's Voice Music/ASCAP) and Jake Armerding (Joekline Music/BMI) © 2013
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Falling In 04:01
10. Falling In In a deep dark pub in the back of London I fell in love and I lost my cool With a beer in hand and the juke box humming A little Liverpool, little Liverpool Well, we all went out on a Thursday evening And I just tried to be myself But the drinks got poured and the talk got flowing And I was someone else, I was someone else Hey, could you make up your heart? I'd like to begin Love is spreading her arms I'm falling in Her cheeks were red and her hair was crimson Her eyes would laugh and her mouth would smile I washed I her like a river Jordan For a little while, just a little while My heart was young with an old demeanor My heart was grey, my heart was bored But you never know it until you've seen her What you're looking for, what you're looking for She's the patch of grass underneath my snowfall In my iron sky, a streak of blue She's the toes of the trees underneath my sidewalk And she's breaking through So, hey, could I make up my heart I'd like to begin Love is spreading her arms, I'm falling in. Music and lyrics by Jake Armerding © 2007 Joekline Music, BMI
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Lucky 03:47
11. Lucky How many pieces of sky by night does the moon in flight encircle us? How many times around our hearts every three-sixty-five and a quarter? How many days does it take to go from new to full and back again, and back again? Some would say that it makes a dark, dark Friday. Some would say it's a chance they would not take. But even the man in black could not miss this accounting, he sang out: Lucky But it's less about counting and more about grace How else could I wake up to your face after all these years We’re lucky, so lucky. A baker's dozen of clover rolls, the attributes of mercy All the Grandmothers circle the globe. And we are the notes at play all along the octave We’re full spectrum, and lucky. Music and lyrics by Trish Bruxvoort Colligan (River's Voice Music/ASCAP) and Jake Armerding (Joekline Music/BMI) © 2013
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Country Roads Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River Life is old there, older than the trees, Younger than the mountains blowing like the breeze Country Roads, take me home to the place I belong West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home All my memories gather 'round her Miner's lady, stranger to blue water Dark and dusty painted on the sky Misty taste of moonshine, teardrops in my eye Country Roads, take me home to the place I belong West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home I hear her voice, in the morning hour she calls me Radio reminds me of my home far away Driving down the road I get a feeling That I should've been home yesterday Country Roads, take me home to the place I belong West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home Music and lyrics by John Denver, Taffy Nivert Danoff, and Bill Dannoff © 1971 Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company, Inc., ASCAP

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Recorded (mostly) live in the Amish-built barn at Seed Savers Exchange (seedsavers.com) in Decorah, IA.

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released May 3, 2014

Produced by Jake Armerding.


Players:
TBC: piano, vocals, acoustic guitar
Jake Armeding: acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjitar, fiddle, baritone electric guitar, vocals, organ
Nate Babbs: drums and percussion
Aaron Fabbrini: electric bass, upright bass, pedal steel guitar
Jeremy Ylvisaker: electric guitar, acoustic archtop guitar
Jonathan Rundman: accordion, harmonica, Wurlitzer
Dan Lawonn: cello
Seed Savers Barn Birds: various descants and decorations



The locally-grown, pick-up choir on "Country Roads" and "Where I'm Going": Aidan & Anna Spencer-Berg, Betty McKibben Branhagen, Jim Ulring, Amy Chicos, Liz Rog, Perry-O Sliwa, Andrew & Eric Ellingsen, Bill Musser, John van der Linden, Brenna Everson, Heidi Swets, Sue Otte, Jane Busch, Sarah Mumford, Jake Armerding, Richard and Sam Bruxvoort Colligan, and Lara, Neil, Rose & Violet Martinsen-Burrell.



Engineered by Jake Armerding and Richard Bruxvoort Colligan.
"Keep Moving" recorded by Bruce Balgaard at Bruce Edward Music in Minneapolis, MN and Matt Patrick at The Library in Minneapolis, MN
Mixed by Chris Rival at Middleville, North Reading, MA
Mastered by Greg Reierson at Rare Form Mastering, Minneapolis, MN


Photography: Julie Richmond, Jake Armerding, Richard Bruxvoort Colligan, and Kent Newman
CD design by: Dan Miggler


Great big thanks to these corporate sponsors:
Seed Savers Exchange (www.seedsavers.org)
Corkery Studios (corkerystudios.com)
The Pepperfield Project (pepperfieldproject.org)
Oneota Food Co-op (oneotacoop.com)
Alloy Virtual Assistance (alloyva.com)
Soul of the Prairie (souloftheprairie.com)
Bryce Durbin (brycedurbin.com)
Full Spectrum Productions (fullspectrumproductions.com)
Mabe's Pizza (mabespizza.com)

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