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Get The Carrier EP:  http://thecarrier.dirtwire.net

There, you can download "The Well" feat. Rising Appalachia and stream the entire release in full.  See it all played live at a show near you - http://dirtwire.net/event/

We were driving up highway 101 in central California this past Winter and noticed that the landscape was drier and browner than any Summer we'd lived through here. The lack of familiar Winter green shocked us, and we channeled that feeling into our music. "The Well" was born. We're excited to have the beautiful voices of Rising Appalachia singing in sweet harmony with us as we join the tradition of bringing song to a struggle in our community and raising awareness of the seriousness of this drought. 

We'd like to take this opportunity to help bring more thought to water conservation, not only when we're in a drought, but as a daily part of our lives. Water is a precious thing. We can all do our part to change our water-wasting ways and keep the wells from running dry. If you haven't thought about how to reduce your water use before,  learn more here: http://saveourh2o.org/

David Satori - Vocals, Banjo
Evan Fraser - Vocals, Jaw Harps, Slide Guitar, Percussion 
Leah Song - Vocals 
Chloe Smith - Vocals
David Brown - Bass

Produced by Dirtwire 2014

Lyrics by Dirtwire and Rich Canut:

woke up and the well was dry
27 vultures in the sky 
i don't know when and i don't know why 
this is the year that the well went dry

i ate dust and dirt too many days 
if i don't get a drink someone's gonna pay
the trees all died and withered away 
wild fires came and set them all ablaze

i don't know how much longer i got
time to hit the road and find another spot 
when the rain comes it all washes away 
we lift our heads and this is what we say
 
the ranch is run down to the bone 
and i can't get a god damn loan
i'll dig this hole till the day i die 
this is the year that the well went dry 

i don't know how much longer i got
time to hit the road and find another spot 
when the rain comes it all washes away 
we lift our heads and this is what we say

poison steals my last breath 
rattle snakes can eat my flesh 
it was a rough ride until the end 
but you know i'd do it again 

i don't know how much longer i got
time to hit the road and find another spot 
when the rain comes it all washes away 
we lift our heads and this is what we say


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The Well (feat. Rising Appalachia)

"Medicine” is a song-anthem honoring the traditions of folk medicine; plant-based medicine as a tool for empowerment and healing. It is a call to action to support the voices of the herbalists, healers, and teachers… the roots, plants, trees, and stones… the arts, the spirits, and the wild ones. It is an honoring of all the many ways that we can be well, and the radical and traditional ways in which we can steward health within ourselves. 

This song is a direct tribute to the people around the world who are holding and teaching these ways of herbal plant-based medicine, educating us all to know our gardens, our forests, our plants and our own bodies... to bring wellness back into our own hands and communities. It is not a dismissal of modern medicine, but a gratitude and honoring of its ancestry and foundations within folkloric traditions. 

This release comes on the New Moon after the Fall Equinox. As we are moving into a new season, a new time, and a new chapter, we offer this song as a ritual anthem for this transition and time of great change.

"Medicine" Lyrics:

Wise men say that rushing is violence
and so is your silence
when its rooted in compliance
To stand firm in loving defiance,
make art your alliance
give voice to the fire

Move people to the beat of the wind
Gather yourself and begin
to dance the song until it ends
We are winners, champions of the light
forming in numbers and might
keep the truth close in sight...

Chorus:
Medicine Woman, Medicine Man
walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hands
Medicine Woman, Medicine Man
walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hands

Find your teachers in the voice of the forests
unplug you cant ignore this
wisdom of the voiceless
Remedies are bountiful and surround us
from the garden to the farthest 
prayers made of star dust

Find your healing in the music that calls you
the voice that enthralls you
what do you belong to 
Eyes out theres the setting of the sun
give thanks to each and everyone
the lesson is the...

Medicine Woman, Medicine Man
walking with grace I know your face, and I trust your hand
Medicine Woman, Medicine Man
walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hand  
 
Poem:

I believe in bending backwards and extending
in my tracks 
trip back
until the lesson is in action and
your yard is feeding
stop stark the disbelieving
cause the garden holds the shards 
the medicine is in the seeds when

We hold tight to our right to protect and
we know our might is 10-fold in connection
our elders hold them bright lights 
we protect them
the medicine is evident 
the wolf, the hawk, the bear clan

We hold tight to our right to protect and
we know our might is 10-fold in connection
our elders hold them bright lights 
we protect them
the medicine is evident 
the wolf, the hawk, the bear clan...

Medicine Woman, Medicine Man
walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hands
Medicine Woman, Medicine Man
walking with grace, I know your face, and I trust your hands

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Medicine

Novels Of Acquaintance

"Wider Circles" is the newest album from Rising Appalachia. With influences of folk, soul, roots, world music, and poetry, the album showcases the alchemy of sibling harmonies paired with banjo and fiddle duets. The album was inspired by folk standards and traditional hymns, old mountain odes, and activist anthems that pull equally from the swampy sounds of the bayou, the twang of the Appalachian mountains, and the beat of a global rhythm.

Lean In (feat. Maurice Turner)

Oh Death

Find Your Way

Synchronicity

Wider Circles

"Wider Circles" is the newest release from Rising Appalachia. With influences of folk, soul, roots, world music, and poetry, the album showcases the alchemy of sibling harmonies paired with banjo and fiddle duets. "Wider Circles" was inspired by folk standards and traditional hymns, old mountain odes, and activist anthems that pull equally from the swampy sounds of the bayou, the twang of the Appalachian mountains, and the beat of a global rhythm.

Spirit's Cradle

I've watched Stranger Things three times over and this track is kind of dedicated to it. It's not perfect of course, but I'm still learning. 

I would advise neon lights, big glasses, some marijuuhana, some christmas lights to make contact with the other side and ugly crop tops while listening to this.

Enjoy.

Weirder Stuff

Rising Appalachia & The Human Experience - Sunu

This track is from the album Evolutions in Sound : Live and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rappalachia3

Aint No Sunshine

This track is from the album The Sails of Self and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/RisingAppalachia

You and I Are Falling, You and I Are Free

SuNu

This track is from the album Scale Down and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rappalachia2

Scale Down

Caminando Remixed

This track is from the album Filthy Dirty South and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/risingappalachia2

Occupy

Cluck Ol' Hen

an ode to one of our oldest mothers, the moon.

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