This is a sketch for a coming-to-be album, recorded over two days at Carmen de Las Cuevas, in Granada, Spain, where I was given the chance to play the songs 'live' in one of the caves, with a single mic, a borrowed flamenco guitar, a slight cold, and a broken chair.

The songs, some as old as the towers falling, some as new as the latest change in the Trump cabinet, most written in the fog of the last two years, spiral around the twin themes of time and loss, and their second cousins, love and memory.

It's hard for me to remember a time when the Odyssey, the Bible, The Beatles, and the Star Wars trilogy haven't been a part of my everyday making sense of the world, so my apologies go out to God, Homer, Pope John Paul, and C3P0 for any unintended copyright infringement, in case they don't have other things to worry about.

For the truly interested listener: I was brought up thinking in vinyl, and as a result the shape of this work has 'two sides' and there's meant to be a distinct bathroom break between tracks 8 and 9.

The Wind and The Rain.live

Running Out.live

Sermon On the Mount.live

If Not for Me (Penelope).live

I Can't Laught to Save My Life.live

Menelaus.live

Nothing To Be Gained Here.live

Calypso.live

I've Got to Let You Go.live

The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower.studio

The scion and oldest surviving member of The Legendary Darling-Maybud family, whose "Legendary Darling-Maybud Old-Time Radio Hour" brought joy and tears to listeners of early regional radio across depression-era Appalachia, and whose eerily modern approach to family harmony came to a tragic end in a freak bus accident in the early 1970s in the mountains outside of Bristol, VA, where the first two generations of The Maybuds were travelling to record a retrospective series of their half-hour broadasts for RCA, leaving The Reverend Colonel (called by friends and family by his given name, Sartoris) and his two cousins to be raised as brother and sister by Auntie Clea 'Mother' Maybud.

Dividing his time between New York City and the family farm on the NY-PA border, The Reverend Colonel writes and records new songs in the old-time tradition, as well as occasionally getting together with his growing family to perform the songs and sketches from the original Old-Time Radio Hour repertoire.

The Reverend Colonel Ulysses S. Darling, III

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