Mark Growden - Coyote

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Animated video for "Coyote" by Christiane Cegavske (director of "Blood Tea and Red String").  Words by Deke Weaver.  From Mark Growden's album "Saint Judas"

Mark Growden has been known as San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalist, with several critically acclaimed albums. "Saint Judas," his 9th album is the 1st studio album of songs in eight years (recorded live in the Bay Area), out now on Porto Franco Records.

Growden is captivated with old American music, mainly African-American, recorded by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax in the 1930s and 1940s; Several tracks on Saint Judas are reworkings of these songs. Album opener “Undertaker,” based on a Lomax field recording of the prison work song “Rosie,” introduces the theme of resurrection. “Dig me a grave, in the open plain. Lower me down, and pull me up again,” sings Growden, over a howling guitar and trumpet. And the closing banjo-and-voice only “All the Pretty Little Horses” is a version of an old spiritual Growden calls “one of his favorite songs ever” which was written, according to legend, by a woman watching horses pull her child’s hearse through the streets.

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