Atlantic
versi sciolti da rima
A long thin scar stretches across water
binding with love two worlds of pain and faith
around a single mic and a bottle.
Atlantic to Delta the spirit flows
from emerald hills to fertile ground laden
with ghosts of past sins, a bright homecoming;
the dark songs more like prayers than dirges,
born of sleepy seasides dreaming of Cash
and of Dylan and the soil of the heart,
a union of those worlds that would become
one with the redemption of all lost souls
riding that long line: the scar that joins us.
Listen.
Atlantic, Ben Glover’s fourth album, will be released 1 September 2014 and features songs co-written with Mary Gauthier and Gretchen Peters.
Of the album, Glover says,
“There’s a spirit in the Mississippi Delta that reminds me a lot of Ireland. In both places you get a very strong sense of their history and tradition and you sense how the past has left its scars, both good and bad. These are two parts of the world that have been extremely fertile ground for inspiring phenomenal creativity — be it the blues from the Delta or the music, songs and poetry that have come out of Ireland.”
