It is always a gift to discover new music and when I found the music of Gregory Alan Isakov while living in Colorado, I knew I would be a devoted listener for a lifetime. It was his album This Empty Northern Hemishere that lulled me off to sleep every night for six months during an intensive season of insomnia. The soothing opening with Dandelion Wine worked every time and off to sleep I would drift. I listened to that album in the car and in the studio and while cooking dinner. It quickly became an all time favorite.
I didn't think he could make an album that I would love as much as This Empty Northern Hemisphere, but when Appaloosa Bones came out, it was that album that became a go-to for me. He came to Wichita, Kansas to play with his amazing band last February and I will never forget the experience of hearing all the songs so familiar to me spilling off the stage in layers of gorgeous sound.
This video featuring the song The Fall which is the opening song on Appaloosa Bones, is so artistic and inspiring. I hope you will enjoy it.
