Brucie and Sox

Here's a track I recorded a month or so ago after reading Wallace Stegner's The Big Rock Candy Mountain. It's based on the ending of the book's fifth chapter which also appears as the short story "The Colt." Stegner's been a huge influence on the themes I plan on studying in grad school and the ways in which I think abut the West. The subject probably deserves a much longer discussion, but this little number will have to suffice for now. At heart, it's the song "Goodbye Old Paint" played on banjo, guitar and harmonium. It's called...

Brucie and Sox