This is the first single off my new album, THE BOOK OF MOSS, that was started (and then shelved) some years ago with my friend and musical companion Alex Abraham, who is no longer with us and brought back to life with another dear friend and musical partner Justin Guip.  It deals with the media, politics, our history and the ongoing assault on indigenous culture and OUR WATER SOURCE! The song was written during the publicized protests of the Keystone Pipeline by the Lakota people of North Dakota. The headlines have since subsided but the problem has not. In a nutshell, it is crazy that we collectively allow for the poisoning of the resource that is necessary for life...and that makes up most of the human body. I am all for science and technology, and yet we are dismissing the greatest scientists on the planet. I don't think any western scientist would dispute the benefit of prolonged observation. The indigenous tribes have looked at and pondered the natural world for thousands of years and made strong and accurate predictions, yet we give them no platform.  I don't need to go into the history or the degradation modern society has imposed here. Nor do I need to explain the importance of water. I can, however, write a song about it...it's called Ogallala. I hope you enjoy it.

Ogallala

Way Of Knowing

BILLY CONWAY ON DRUMS MIKE PRESS ON SONG AND SINGING IT, JEREMY M CURTIS ON BASSS
JABE BEYER MARIMBA
STEVE MAYONNE AMAZING GUITAR SOLO
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Barista

InYourSleep (demo)

Two Choices?

I do not own the rights to this song!

My rendition of James Taylors "Love Has Brought Me Around" 
Recorded in 2001 at Porter Square Studios (Somerville, MA)

Instruments and vocals by Steve Mayone

Love Has Brought Me Around

All songs written by Bow Thayer (Elbop Music (SESAC)) © 2021
Produced and arranged by Bow Thayer and Justin Guip
Mixed by Justin Guip at Milan Hill Studio, Red Hook NY
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville TN
 
Bow Thayer - vocals, banjos, guitars, mandolin, bojos, bass, synth, organ, Fender Rhodes, percussion (recorded at The Woodshed, Stockbridge VT)
Jeff Berlin - drums, percussion (recorded at Chateau Berlin, Barnard VT and The Woodshed, Stockbridge VT)
Jeremy Dryden - electric and acoustic bass (recorded at Peddles Productions, Somerville MA)
Val McCallum - electric guitars, vocals (recorded at Vamps Laboratories, Los Angeles CA)
Chris McGandy - pedal steel guitar (recorded at Spirit Goat West, Petaluma CA)
Dana Colley - saxophones and penny whistle (recorded at Third Floor Music, East Somerville MA)
 
Cover photo by Vincent Freeman
Layout by Margo Strauss
Management: Battenkill Music (battenkillmusic@gmail.com)
 
For Doug
 
Special thanks to Bob and Peggy Magner, Stuart Blain, and Joe Defino whose generous donations made this album possible.
 
www.bowthayer.com

Earthling

Bow Thayer is an accomplished and prolific songwriter who cultivates influences from the worlds of rock, blues, folk, prog, bluegrass and everything and anything in between to produce music that is heartfelt, soulful and uniquely his. He has lived up to his “reputation as a sublimely gifted artist” by pursuing a creative vision that seeks to lead Americana music into the future. Finally gaining national recognition, American Songwriter Magazine says this "onetime Levon Helm compatriot is the best artist to come from New England in recent years." On July 24, 2015, Bow will release his new album, "Sundowser", the much anticipated follow-up to his 2013 critically-acclaimed record, "Eden".

Earthling

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