There’s a story behind every song I write. I’ll spend weeks, months, researching online and in the field (sometimes literally), taking pictures, borrowing books, soul mining and writing at my kitchen table. When it’s done, each song becomes a little movie in my mind and I wish I could show it on the wall somehow when I play it out.
That’s the inspiration behind Postcards from the Swamp. I wanted to bring the story and the song together. In the six weeks leading up to the CD release at Triad Stage in Greensboro, I published one new chapter, and one new song. Each one is published below, starting with that one hot summer in July in 2012 when I googled for water, and found the Great Dismal Swamp.
On the dock in the Dismal with the book that brought me here.
George Washington tried to turn the swamp into a profitable farmland.
Moses Grandy was a slave, a boat captain, and eventually a free man who worked on the Great Dismal Swamp Canal.
Legend says a woman haunts Lake Drummond at night, paddling her white canoe by firefly lamplight.
The James Adams Floating Theater was one of the last true American Showboats.
Floating underwater in a saltwater pool.
