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Verses Of Grace

from Another Dawn by Tempest

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VERSES OF GRACE (Sorbye/Reynolds/Crocker)
A song of hope and change, written in honor of the 2009 inauguration


The second song on the album, VERSES OF GRACE, gave the CD its title. The quote: ‘Joined together, we meet and go on, Gathering light – and it may be the dawn, Dance when the mouldering guard has withdrawn’ paints a picture of the meaning of “Another Dawn”. It was written for the inauguration in Jan 2009, not necessarily political, the last time a crowd that size gather together in a spirit of hope was Aug 1969 at Woodstock. I felt a rebirth of the same values: it was time to look after each other and look after the planet. People started to believe we have to learn to live differently, and you could feel the whole country start to think that way. The whole collective conscience of the country was shifting at that point, you could see it actually physically happening, and I felt that was a reason to celebrate. This was a moment in time when you could feel the change, that good things are happening in the world. I have always felt that folk music is truly the music of the people telling the story of the human condition. We experience the same struggle to survive that it was hundreds of years ago. I find a lot of inspiration in traditional music, not just in the lyrics, but in the musical form as well.

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from Another Dawn, released March 30, 2010

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