One of THE best Americana tracks ever recorded IMO...   :-)

Chloe Smith, Leah Song and David Brown from Rising Appalachia have created a beautiful track with Vir McCoy and Evan Fraser of The Dogon Lights

"Water She Dances" with 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

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God Forgot the Tuning Pegs

Original Track by Trevor Hall (Chapter of the Forest)

Trevor Hall - Obsidian (edit)

Sing To The Mountain (Live At The Boulder Theater) - Elephant Revival - From Sands Of Now

The second in a series of remixes of Rising Appalachia songs by band member David Brown. Inspired by the Pacific Northwest and a live collaboration that happened there with Trevor Hall, it's a reflection of the spacious and harmonic performance that happened. There's a subtle nod to Mr Macklemore, as well. Follow CASTANEA here and at /castaneasounds on FB/Instagram/Bandcamp to catch and download next month's remix.

Novels of Acquaintance Remix

Believe
Lyrics and Music by Mikey Pauker (BMI) Copyright 2018
Mikey Pauker: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Warren Huart: Mandolin, Acoustic Guitar
Brian Lang: Stand Up Bass
Eliza James: Vilolin

Mikey Pauker ASCENSION Description:
The journey of ASCENSION invites us to pause and listen to the call of our inner wilderness by greeting our darkness with understanding and an open heart. I’m grateful for the unfolding of the unknown. BIG gratitude to my Poppa, Mama and Emily for your abundant love. Thank you to my Indiegogo supporters who made this album possible. We did it!  Thank you to Shiva for your guidance and inspiration. Thank you to Warren Huart and Spitfire Studious for believing in me and producing this collection of songs.  May this music be medicine for your heart.

Believe

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Lyrics:
Across valleys folding, across waters frozen
across the time between my dawn and your setting sun
these are stories blowin’, these words tender showin’
how can I touch the shape of wing-binding’s falling ‘way
oh tongue, set you free, and oh mind let it be
oh land, teach me how to lay in the storming wind
across hearts aching, across skies a-breaking
across the time between our suns

I’m lost in your stars
by the light of the dark moon
just be as you are, just do as you do
by grace and devotion
by lettin go, lettin go overything
by breath as it takes you
by the light of the dark moon
I’m lost in your stars

Two-toned, moment wide, breathing, stay with it
I aim for the place between all longing and letting be
speaking honeywine, making wishes star-side
these are the arrows in the battle of becoming
make me a warrior hummingbird, disarming 
you be a compass to guide this flight
take me surrendered, fill me to spilling over
the roots of this endless sky

I’m lost in your stars…

By the Light of the Dark Moon

Stars (Acoustic)

Leylines

12 Resilient

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