Morin shares the first single from his latest project, Innocent Allies: the impetus for the album itself, “Big Sky Sun Goes Down.” “This album started with an idea and an armful of CMR art books inherited from my folks,” remembers Morin. “When I finally decided to sit down and write words, I was seated on a bluff overlooking the Colorado River at Rancho Del Rio outside of Bond, Colorado. Reviewing the paintings and hearing the water rushing by, I wrote this first song.” A sweet, waltzing ode to the Montana countryside, Morin cites Russell’s When The Land Belonged To God, Salute To The Robe Trade, Piegans, In The Enemies Country, and Buffalo Hunt as the paintings that directly influenced “Big Sky Sun Goes Down.” Morin sings the uplifting refrain with conviction: “Beneath us is a song to me / This land is talking to me / I cannot falter now.”
“My father’s house was located between Ulm and Great Falls, Montana, near the site of The Ulm Pishkun Buffalo Jump,” remembers Morin. “The Missouri River was a half-mile walk from there. I could see where our house was built in many of the CMR paintings. It was located just North of the river as I faced Square Butte.”
Musicians:
Cary Morin - Acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
Eric Adcock - Piano
Celeste Di Iorio - Background vocals
Lyrics
Big Sky Sun Goes Down Lyrics - Cary Morin (BMI)
YOU CAN HEAR THE ARID SILENCE
AS THE PALETTE SIGNALS THE CALM
NOTHING CAN STOP THE COLD APPROACH
OF THE EVENING COMING ON
DOWN DEEP IN THE DISTANCE LINGERS
A FIGURE OLD AS THE STONES
BENEATH US IS A SONG TO ME
THIS LAND IS TALKING TO ME
I CANNOT FALTER NOW
(INSTRUMENTAL)
SOUNDS BECOME FAMILIAR
YET THEY FADE FROM MEMORY
NOTHING IS ORDINARY
WHEN THE BIG SKY SUN GOES DOWN
WHEN THE SPECTRUM OF THE LIGHT
OF A SKYLINE AND A DISTANT MEMORY
BENEATH US IS A SONG TO ME
THIS LAND IS TALKING TO ME
I CANNOT FALTER NOW
(INSTRUMENTAL)
UP ON THE MISSOURI
SQUARE BUTTE INSPIRES ME
MY HOME AND THE HIGHER POWER
IN MY MINDS EYE I CAN SEE
LIKE A PRAYER FROM THE SUNDANCE
THIS DAY WILL LAST FOREVER
BENEATH US IS A SONG TO ME
THIS LAND IS TALKING TO ME
I CANNOT FALTER NOW