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Across the Great Divide
Written by Kate Wolf (Another Sundown Publishing/BMI). Used with permission.
Song credits:
Lisa Bastoni - vocal
Sean Staples - harmony vocal, guitar, bass, mandolin, pump organ, wurlitzer
Tim Kelly - dobro
Produced, engineered and mixed by Sean Staples at Wesley Park Studio
Mastered by Dave Westner
Recorded as a tribute to both Kate Wolf and Nanci Griffith, September 2021.
I am so moved by the story of how “Across the Great Divide” ended up on Nanci Griffith’s Other Voices, Other Rooms tribute album. It turns out that Nanci and Emmylou Harris were hanging out on New Year’s Eve 1990/1991, talking about the wonderful Kate Wolf and how her songs were not being recorded - in the liner notes, Nanci wrote: “If you don’t record the songs, they just die, they go away, no one sings them. Emmy said the most marvelous thing, which was that songs need to be sung in new voices in places that they’ve never been heard before, in order to stay alive and have new life.”
Can’t you just picture Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith hanging out on New Year’s Eve? Two of the greats, wrapped in soft blankets, remembering their late friend Kate, laughing and crying and singing by a wood stove, possibly with giant goblets of wine? I wish I could have been there! Nanci and Emmylou’s version of “Across the Great Divide,” has sent me on a path to learn more about Kate Wolf’s life and work. I’m honored to lend my voice to this timeless song.
lyrics
ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE -
Kate Wolf (Another Sundown Publishing/BMI)
I've been walkin' in my sleep
Countin' troubles instead of countin' sheep
Where the years went I can't say
I just turned around and they've gone away
I've been siftin' through the layers
Of dusty books and faded papers
They tell a story I used to know
And it was one that happened so long ago
It's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide
Now, I heard the owl callin'
Softly as the night was fallin'
With a question and I replied
But he's gone across the borderline
He's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide
The finest hour that I have seen
Is the one that comes between
The edge of night and the break of day
It's when the darkness rolls away
And it's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide
And it's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
It's where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide
credits
released September 26, 2021
Lisa Bastoni - vocal
Sean Staples - harmony vocal, guitar, bass, mandolin, pump organ, wurlitzer
Tim Kelly - dobro
Produced, engineered and mixed by Sean Staples at Wesley Park Studio
Lisa Bastoni is a 2019 and 2020 Boston Music Award nominee (Folk) , and winner of the 2019 Kerrville New Folk Contest. "Americana of the highest order...along the lines of Gretchen Peters or Patty Griffin." (Maverick-UK). She lives in Northampton, MA.
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