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Episode 86 · Keys to My Head
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP Promise of Being Filled All alone is not alone anymore Once you make peace with yourself. Darkness is not a loss of sight Nor being emptied a loss of wealth. These snowy hill…
Nature & seasons · Faith & reflection
Listen & readEpisode 85 · Keys to My Head
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP Southwind Southwind and a pickup truck On a gravel road and I think I'm in luck Cause the sun's high in the western sky And in an hour or two I'll be by your side. I know the…
Black Hills & place
Listen & readEpisode 84 · Keys to My Head
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP On That Day There came a day We didn’t hug our mothers. There came a day We didn’t kiss our lovers. And on that day The sun rose like any other, But we watched the numbers gr…
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 83 · Keys to My Head
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP In the Pines In the pines, in the pines Where the sun never shines That's where the cold wind blows In the pines, in the pines Where the sun never shines I shiver when the co…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 82 · Keys to My Head
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP Full of Fear Gotta leave here tomorrow gotta leave here tomorrow poison’s deep in my marrow gotta leave here tomorrow Oh, oh, oh the path is straight and clear Oh, oh, oh, bu…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 81 · Keys to My Head
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP Making Our Escape It's dark in here, it's dark in here Most days I don't even hear, don't even hear A thing, no not a thing, not a thing... So many years, it's been so many y…
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 80 · Keys to My Head
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP Ragged Set of Claws I am not the man I used to be I am not the boy I was Some days I have trouble getting used to me Some nights I fight A ragged set of claws... A ragged set…
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 79 · Keys to My Head
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP Answer to Pane I look out on an empty field but I’m not so sure my fate is sealed They are building, building all the time. Strip mall, industrial park, duplex—it’s like a No…
Nature & seasons
Listen & readEpisode 78 · Keys to My Head
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP Life Begins in Mud Something green, something new Something raucous, something true Something muddy beneath the big, wide blue Something me, something you, Something you, som…
Nature & seasons
Listen & readEpisode 77 · Keys to My Head
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP 1987 Sky as blue as ocean Summer clouds are sailing by Black-eyed Susans on the shoulder Sway and dance but they never cry They never cry... Setting out is all too easy You t…
Nature & seasons
Listen & readEpisode 76 · Keys to My Head
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP This Lonely Road I set out on the 1st of May I had a hunger in the worst of ways a hunger for a love, a love like you. I rounded a corner in the morning light almost blinded—…
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 75 · Keys to My Head
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP If You Wanna Make a Song You gotta have a hole In your heart, Stick out your neck so long, Give everybody the keys To your head, If you wanna make a song. (repeat) When the t…
Songwriting
Listen & readEpisode 74 · Poetry series
Ready For Jesus The missionary is only 20. He's telling us that the people in Honduras have nothing--- he describes a family of seven who live in a mud hut with a dirt floor and a doorway with no door so the animals wand…
Love & relationships · Faith & reflection · Poetry
Listen & readEpisode 73 · Poetry series
my dream I see you like this: you clutch the tiny warm ball of a new brown field-mouse. pressing it into the warmth of your scented neck where your hair bends gently in to brush your careful fingers... it is cold outside…
Nature & seasons · Love & relationships · Faith & reflection · Poetry
Listen & readEpisode 72 · Poetry series
Birthright Jacob stole his birthright, being clever and tricky and gets the bad rap on account of greed, but what about the sin of Esau who sold his birthright for a single bowl of soup? Sure, at the time it seemed reaso…
Poetry
Listen & readEpisode 71 · Poetry series
near roubaix lake they've made a new stream the early snow has filled this footbridge barely supports my weight above the runoff ten inch PVC hastily placed releases water from the makeshift dam of mud and sticks to rot …
Black Hills & place · Nature & seasons · Love & relationships · Faith & reflection · Poetry
Listen & readEpisode 70 · Poetry series
Design 1 We have a secret place my daughters and I where an old creek has run empty The sky above that hill pushes fast past the swaying tips of pines but the birch, oak and ironwoods have not yet leaves enough to dance …
Nature & seasons · Love & relationships · Poetry
Listen & readEpisode 69 · Poetry series
Joe and Marge at the Movies They were getting old and they didn't even know it. Joe smiled like the crowsfeet and the false teeth and the double chin didn't show--- weren't there . Marge walked just like the base of her …
Love & relationships · Poetry
Listen & readEpisode 68 · Poetry series
artifacts I'm burying my head deep into a distant May a stretch from this late January where an unseasonable warmth has reawakened these lilacs beneath my skin (they sprawl, varicose, purple clusters across my forearms a…
Nature & seasons · Poetry
Listen & readEpisode 67 · Poetry series
late august seminar in andrews hall the fields along I-80 are dark as three years back when you moved behind every stalk in the side-spill of my headlights-- silent trips only three weeks four weeks five after your death…
Nature & seasons · Love & relationships · Poetry
Listen & readEpisode 66 · Poetry series
Vocation The voice that speaks us into engagement names, and in so many words, creates us -- creates , not constructs, names , not labels. On the edge of an ocean I break again and again... if I am alive; what forms is n…
Nature & seasons · Faith & reflection · Poetry
Listen & readEpisode 65 · Poetry series
I Don't Need Poetry I don't need poetry unless it scratches secretly on my window. I open the door to discover it was only wind. I don't need poetry until it doesn't want my observation anymore. when I lower my eyes it s…
Nature & seasons · Poetry
Listen & readEpisode 64 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP & from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP Lonely No More Out on the mesa You don't have to face A thousand prying eyes Up on the mountain You don't have to count A hundre…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 63 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP & from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP Wildflower Moon The birds are singing And the rabbits play Down by the waterside Looking for love, looking for love My love li…
Nature & seasons · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 62 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP & from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP Dave Shake his hand And you'd feel the knot; His knuckles were twisted But his spirit was not. As a younger man He built the roa…
Black Hills & place · Love & relationships · Faith & reflection
Listen & readEpisode 61 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP & from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP Call It A Day I spent the morning with my father Fishing for lake trout in the stream We caught nothing but the north wind And a…
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 60 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP & from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP Take All You Want Growing up in the depression Made Grandpa kinda tight He wouldn't part with a wooden nickel Without a fight An…
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 59 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP & from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP Place the Flowers Place the flowers in water Throw some seed out for the birds Stop to hear the children's laughter Work a kind …
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 58 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP & from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP Hampton Town If you're a traveling man then listen here A stranger alone has cause for fear If you go down to Hampton, watch you…
Love & relationships · Faith & reflection
Listen & readEpisode 57 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP & from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP A Good Man David was a golden boy His mamma's only son He'd pull his Converse high-tops on And man, could David run. Growing up …
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 56 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP & from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP Dry Land When I was a boy We used to go down to the river Strip down and jump in fast Jump out on the bank and shake and shiver …
Nature & seasons
Listen & readEpisode 55 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP & from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP Time I went out walking in my hometown last night, I hadn't done that in quite a long, long time. There was a full moon--- she w…
Nature & seasons
Listen & readEpisode 54 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP & from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP Man on the Mountain The man on the mountain He doesn't come down but once a week The man on the mountain He'll buy his supplies …
Nature & seasons · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 53 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Ozzie's Guitar 20 Years Later LP & from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP Ozzie's Guitar Ozzie drove an El Camino Cuffed the hems of his navy chinos Man alive, could grandpa drive-- Odd jobs from here t…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 52 · Song stories
Featured song from 2011's Tasunke Witko LP The Hunt (instrumental) Featured song from 2017's Two Weeks in April LP Canyon Rain (instrumental) Featured song from 2011's No Standing LP Climb (instrumental)
Black Hills & place · Instrumental music
Listen & readEpisode 51 · Song stories
Featured song from 2015's The Road Behind LP Starting Out (instrumental) Rocks Make a River Sing (instrumental) August Stormcloud (instrumental) Featured song from 2013's Edge of the Known LP Rocks Make a River Sing (ins…
Instrumental music
Listen & readEpisode 50 · Song stories
Featured song from 2017's Reflections & Refugees LP Wake Up Jacob (instrumental) Featured song from 2017's Two Weeks in April LP Saturday Morning (instrumental) Featured song from 2015's The Road Behind LP Five to Nine D…
Instrumental music
Listen & readEpisode 49 · Song stories
Featured song from 2017's Refuge LP Paw Paw was a Quiet Man Paw Paw was a quiet man, Everyone just knew— He would never say a word If it weren't true. Evening milk and cornbread, Just "knockin' old Joe" He'd stretch ou…
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 48 · Song stories
Featured song from 2002's Grace EP Selma Sundays Selma sang on Sundays, Slid up to reach the highs. She sang about Amazing Grace And angels from the skies. And in the car she sang to me "A-chewin'" on her gum, "I love …
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 47 · Song stories
Featured song from 2012's Nebraska Catfish LP Into New (Based on closing lines of Wendell Berry's "A Purification") Like the night sky into blue Or a single cell becoming two Like me leaning into you Something old is esc…
Nature & seasons · Love & relationships · Faith & reflection
Listen & readEpisode 46 · Song stories
Featured song from 2015's Circuitous & Before the Great Divide Double LP The Reckless Resurrected Down to the river just to find myself, But I was not there Into the forest to hear your voice, But the aspen were still ba…
Nature & seasons · Faith & reflection
Listen & readEpisode 45 · Song stories
Featured song from 2010's Letting the Sunlight Back In LP Tide The valve that opens closes the breath that comes recedes this give and take will lift me into uncharted seas and stillness is not static its rhythm comes an…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 44 · Song stories
Featured song from 2018's A. Dream LP Mitak' Oyasin On the prairie— on the Great Plains Before the highways and the long coal trains Lived a people, with a kinship Grandfather put them on this land in friendship All fami…
Love & relationships · Faith & reflection
Listen & readEpisode 43 · Song stories
Featured song from 2008's RED EP Color Red Her car was just a Dodge and she was just a co-ed going west The mountains calling her were from a poster pinned above her desk A friend had called her and told her, Colorado ai…
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 42 · Song stories
Featured song from 2018's Gravitate LP Leaf & Tree I was not the first to see The beauty of a leaf & tree Don’t let me be the last Ten thousand centuries To say goodbye with such strange ease Oh, can it be? Will my child…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 41 · Song stories
Download FREE Accompanying Journal Here Featured song from 2020's Being Human (the Songs) LP Do Not Rush the Dawn Something’s been asleep in me like filtered sun on the river rocks, like quiet breeze, almost still leaves…
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 40 · Song stories
Featured song from 2012's The Long View LP Fire Builds the City Rewind the film, and the fire builds the city Rewind the film, and the huntsman revives the fox Rewind the film, and the banker steals the money Rewind the …
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 39 · Being Human
Featured song from 2020's Being Human (The Songs) LP Silent Time The silent time is always filled with sun In summer time or winter, even at night with the curtains drawn Curtains drawn… curtains drawn I have dreamed suc…
Nature & seasons · Faith & reflection
Listen & readEpisode 38 · Song stories
Featured song from 2012's The Long View LP Deepen the Well In the fall, my ego needed sleep; He sat up nights composing poems I could not keep. My strong root is when the quiet reveals my voice; My strong root is when st…
Nature & seasons · Poetry
Listen & readEpisode 37 · Being Human
Featured songs from 2020's Being Human (Instrumentals) LP Starting Out, Grindstone & Unmarked Trail Download FREE Journal Here Read intro to Being Human project here Starting Out also appears on... Grindstone also appear…
Instrumental music
Listen & readEpisode 36 · Song stories
Featured song from 2012's Nebraska Catfish LP Winter Fields Out here in these winter fields silence is the only thing that's growing, even now when it's not snowing and there's nothing but the wind. And I want to know---…
Nature & seasons · Love & relationships · Faith & reflection
Listen & readEpisode 35 · Song stories
Featured song from 2010's Letting the Sunlight Back In LP Don't Grow Away I watched the sun come up this morning just like a million times before but when I watched your face awaken it was like something I’d never seen b…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 34 · Song stories
Featured song from 2010's Letting the Sunlight Back In LP Signs I went down to New Mexico with my father and my little girl it was unreal and it was dreamlike it was like another world of enchantment --just like they say…
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 33 · Song stories
Featured song from 2015's Circuitous & Before the Great Divide Double LP What I Got I’m the poet without a pen, and the priest who can’t hear God; I’m the dancer with two clubfeet, and the farmer who can’t break the sod,…
Love & relationships · Faith & reflection · Poetry
Listen & readEpisode 32 · Song stories
Featured song from 2017's Refuge LP Love You Perfectly All my love All my doubt All the things I've done All the things I could do without… Oh, it's you You are the one who sees me through Yeah, and it's me Gonna try to …
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 31 · Song stories
Featured song from 2018's Gravitate LP Heatwave Three dogs and a hammock And a cool breeze after a hot day Heatwave in the canyon You’re singin’ Eagle and the Hawk from memory Seems like we were just kids Thirty years an…
Black Hills & place · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 30 · Song stories
Featured song from 2018's A. Dream LP Alone He was alone, he was alone. She was alone, she was alone… And we’re born, and... And we’re born, and... And we’re born, and we don’t know nothin’… Gotta find a face, gotta find…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 29 · Song stories
Featured song from 2014's LIVE in the Black Hills LP People As Tall As Mountains There's a bird here, It has a broke wing And there are coyotes On the prowl; And there are people Forgot how to sing, They are broken Someh…
Black Hills & place
Listen & readEpisode 28 · Song stories
Featured song from 2015's Circuitous & Before the Great Divide: Remasters LP In the Hills Something’s blowing through the Hills tonight something’s riding on the wind Orion’s lying down beside me now just to comfort his …
Black Hills & place · Nature & seasons · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 27 · Song stories
Featured song from 2000's Topo: Acoustic Landscapes LP Across the Canyon (instrumental) Welcome to VOTE SPEARFISH WEEK! Vote here: https://smallbusinessrevolution.org/small-business-revolution/main-street/season-five#vot…
Black Hills & place · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 26 · Song stories
Featured song from 2015's The Road Behind LP Photo Graphe' (instrumental) Watch Music Video Here! Also available on... Welcome to VOTE SPEARFISH WEEK! Vote here: https://smallbusinessrevolution.org/small-business-revolut…
Black Hills & place · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 25 · Song stories
Featured song from 2015's The Road Behind LP Close to Home (instrumental) Also available on... Welcome to VOTE SPEARFISH WEEK! Vote here: https://smallbusinessrevolution.org/small-business-revolution/main-street/season-f…
Black Hills & place · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 24 · Song stories
Featured song from 2015's The Road Behind LP Spearfish Canyon (instrumental) Also available on... Welcome to VOTE SPEARFISH WEEK! Vote here: https://smallbusinessrevolution.org/small-business-revolution/main-street/seaso…
Black Hills & place · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 23 · Song stories
Featured song from 2010's Letting the Sunlight Back In LP Punch Another Hole Oh, this ship’s a-sinkin’ Oh, this ship’s a-sinkin’ There’s a hole in the bottom of the ocean there’s a hole in the bottom of the sea Lots of m…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 22 · Song stories
Featured song from 2018's Gravitate LP Cracks What is broken in me is open in me... Where you see me split apart, you catch a glimpse of my true heart... my true heart. It’s song that opens the cracks. Each beat divides …
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 21 · Song stories
Featured song from 2014's Do Not Rush the Dawn LP Jeff Davis Pie Well Mamma called me up 'n said, "It's your grandma's birthday son, so you 'n Sheryl need to come--- and bring the girls." She said that it was 80 years si…
Love & relationships · Politics & history
Listen & readEpisode 20 · Song stories
Featured song from 2002's Grace EP Down Autumn’s come around again and the world is turning brown, brown something’s fallen from the highest limb all her friends, they say, “She don’t come around anymore There’s a sidewa…
Nature & seasons
Listen & readEpisode 19 · Song stories
Featured song from 2012's Nebraska Catfish LP Playdough Boy He had a cassette recorder, he had songs in his head He placed them into the microphone. Playdough boy, Playdough boy, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 Playdough boy Middle s…
Nature & seasons · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 18 · Song stories
Featured song from 2017's Refuge LP My First Song I was only six or seven years old, You must've been a worn-out thirty-two. Don't know what stories you'd been told; Don't know what you went home to… But you brought a ti…
Poetry · Songwriting
Listen & readEpisode 17 · Song stories
Featured song from 2015's Circuitous & The Great Divide Double LP When It's Cold Outside There's nothing quite like a fire inside on a cold winter night. There's nothing quite like a place to hide when it's cold outside,…
Nature & seasons · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 16 · Song stories
Featured song from 2018's A. Dream LP Trumpfunk Jump... Trump Funk gotta tweet a little, cheat a little Jump... Trump Funk gotta tweet— huh! Jump... Trump Funk gotta tweet a little, cheat a little Jump... Trump Funk gott…
Love & relationships · Faith & reflection · Politics & history
Listen & readEpisode 15 · Song stories
Featured song from 2008's Black Hills Dirt EP Mile 52 Blues Well, a hundred miles is a long, long ride A hundred miles is a long long ride Ain’t no place that you can hide. A hundred miles is a long long ride Yeah but I’…
Black Hills & place
Listen & readEpisode 14 · Song stories
Featured song from 2011's Tasunke Witko (Crazy Horse) Documentary Film Soundtrack LP Opening Theme (instrumental) View Full Documentary Film Here! Featured song from 2001's Topo: Acoustic Landscapes LP 8 lb. Test (instru…
Instrumental music
Listen & readEpisode 13 · Song stories
Featured song from 2008's RED EP Gently The poet said that life was just a dream. He was talking to me. The poet said that life was like a stream. He was talking to me. And so you row your boat on gently down the stream …
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 12 · Song stories
Featured song from 2012's The Long View LP As We Are Known Face to face Face to face, as we are known. Know Face to face Face to face, as we are known. Know Face to face Face to face, as we are known. Know Face to face F…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 11 · Song stories
Featured song from 2008's Nothing Knew LP Nothing Knew Nothing knew I’d fall again Nothing knew the bitter end Nothing saw me safely home Knew I’d find myself all alone Nothing knew… Nothing knew… Nothing healed my broke…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 10 · Song stories
Featured song from 2012's Nebraska Catfish LP Midwest Town In a Midwest town when the winter comes you never see the ground; see the children spill onto the street for the wind to scatter like autumn leaves. Take yoursel…
Nature & seasons · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 9 · Song stories
Featured song from 2013's Edge of the Known LP Who Sings This Song? Oooh, ooh, ooh, ooh... Who owns this land? Who owns this land? Who owns this land? Who took it from these hands? Who built this fence? Who built this fe…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 8 · Song stories
Featured song from 2014's Do Not Rush the Dawn LP Bugsy She’s right there by my head It’s not a double, it’s a queen-sized bed. She’s got a funny little snore when she sleeps and a little black nose to sniff out the secr…
Nature & seasons · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 7 · Song stories
Featured song from 2011's No Standing LP Kick It I was born With a stubbornness inside, if you close that door, I’m gonna kick it open, Kick it open wide, Yeah-Yeah, Yeah-Yeah… Back in first grade, old Mrs. Nielson Pulle…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 6 · Song stories
Featured song from 2010's Letting the Sunlight Back In LP Easy Come Easy come, yeah, easy go what you thought, well it just ain’t so you can plan all your hours and days but they’re all just gonna happen anyway, yeah the…
Nature & seasons · Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 5 · Song stories
Featured song from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP Man on the Mountain The man on the mountain he doesn’t come down but once a week the man on the mountain he’ll buy his supplies and never speak the man on the mountain he’s too…
Nature & seasons
Listen & readEpisode 4 · Song stories
Featured song from 2015's Circuitous & Before the Great Divide Remastered Double LP and 2017's Refuge LP Refuge You're not on your momma's hip Anymore You left your Daddy's shoulders— Now you're standing on the floor Alw…
Songs & stories
Listen & readEpisode 3 · Song stories
Featured song from 2018's A. Dream LP Take My Heart Take my heart and hold it tight When the shadows steal my sight. Take my hand, like a childhood friend We'll climb the hill as the night descends. Take my feet where e'…
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 2 · Song stories
Featured song from 2018's Gravitate LP Gravitate I won't love you tomorrow The same as today I can't beg steal or borrow Enough time to say Just how much pain and sorrow I'd feel if we stayed Only this close. Like stars,…
Love & relationships
Listen & readEpisode 1 · Song stories
Featured song from 2017's Refuge LP Love Now When I was a child, I would look into the sky— See every bird, see every cloud Know the native state of me was flight... At any time, I just might fly... Now that I am an olde…
Black Hills & place · Nature & seasons · Love & relationships
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