“Travel till you reach the desert Full and empty, wide as ever Cactus with his withered wife Snakes and lizards cling to life In love forever.” —from “Hualapai Mountain” Digital Download only (CD out of print)

Calhoun's 9th album, 18 songs at 46 minutes, moves rapidly through intense feelings of love, longing, loss and redemption. Opening with

“Travel till you reach the desert Full and empty, wide as ever Cactus with his withered wife Snakes and lizards cling to life In love forever.” —from “Hualapai Mountain” Digital Download only (CD out of print)

Calhoun's 9th album, 18 songs at 46 minutes, moves rapidly through intense feelings of love, longing, loss and redemption. Opening with harp and bowed bass on "Meditation Song," the disc moves from the playful, fiddle-driven treatment of a serious subject on "Witches", to "Two Roads," a grim blues about adultery; the manic word-play of "Farewell Butterfly" and the nightmare tale "Dancing with the Daughter of a Drunk." "A Hoosier in Paris," with accordion, bass, and dobro, inserts a note of comedy; "Broken Feeder" recounts a woman's recovery from grief, while "Hualapai Mountain" finds serenity in a desert landscape. "Shadow of a WIng" features the talents of Donny Wright (bass and dobro), Joe Root (accordion), Elizabeth Nicholson (Celtic harp) and Bob Soper (fiddle and mandola).

Tracks: Meditation Song | Window | Sammy | The Promise | Two Roads | Witches | Daughter of a Drunk | A Hoosier in Paris | Smokin' and Drinkin' | Folklore | Inside Out | Single Roses | Fluttering Wings | Broken Feeder | Raining | I Love Your Letters | Farewell Butterfly | Hualapai Mountain