Woolen Sails and Winter Nights
The broad-tailed ship is one of the animals illustrated in our huge family Bible. LISTEN NOW · 3:49 Press the arrow above to play my previously unreleased new song “In Your Car.” Hello friends, Here is a song that feels like winter to me. Long drives when it gets dark early. The stars are especially bright and the air is thin and cold. I wrote this song in collaboration with my friend Alfred John Hickling as part of an unreleased album-length project which honored my music mentor Norman Cross. ¹ Last month, I wrote about how Norman and his wife Fiona influenced my song “Silver Darling.” “In Your Car” comes from the same song cycle and, like “Silver Darling,” has a connection to wool. In verse two, I sing: Longboat in the Humber, woolen sails of red and white. Hear the distant singing – lusty tales of icebound life. What sagas will unfold when we turn back and we drive? Those woolen sails ² come from Norway. In Scandinavia as many as 1000 sheep produced the...
