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Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, Laysongs’ centrepiece is the three-part Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, which was inspired by CS Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. The album also features a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a performance of the fourth movement of Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin; God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot based on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s adaptation of a Leonard Cohen poem; a cover of bluegrass legend Hazel Dickens’ Won’t You Come and Sing for Me, and Ecclesiastes 2:24, original instrumental loosely modeled after the Prelude from JS Bach’s Partita for Solo Violin in E.

Sam Amidon, another great Nonesuch artist, opens on all dates following the success of his albums The Following Mountain and Sam Amidon that brought the fresh energy and layered textures of folk to life

Sam has developed his own strong style as a singer and multi-instrumentalist through reworkings of traditional songs, original material, and collaborations with jazz mavericks such as Bill Frisell.

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