They Called Me Cain

About this track

The Low Ground is twelve songs sung by the dead of a single flooded town. The gravedigger, the preacher who lost his faith, the bride who drowned in her wedding dress, the child by the water, the man they called Cain each one rises to tell the truth they couldn't tell while living. Poetic folk in the tradition of the great storytellers. No production tricks, no easy sentiment. Just twelve voices, a worn guitar, and the river that finally made everyone equal. This is an album about the things we don't say until it's too late. About how the water doesn't care who you were. About the strange peace of the low ground, where the proud lie down with the small. Twelve graves. Twelve songs. One rising tide.

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