Crooked Tree

from Against The Tide by Bronwyn Eather

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This song evokes a fierce and protective love I feel for Australia, an ancient bony continent, remnant of Gondwana. Playing with alternate guitar tunings, I remembered a poem, written years before, after a visit to the Central Desert of Australia. How could anyone love the crimson sunsets, paprika sands and violet skies without embracing the stark, hidden underbelly of this land? A kind of righteous pride and indignation emerged in ‘Crooked Tree’, expressing the hardship and beauty of the land and its people.

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Crooked Tree

Give me a crooked tree any day
Pulling life from dirt and broken bone
Songlines scribbled under bark
Drawn in sand and scarred on stone

Give me the bone nasal tones of barely moving lips
Vowels so flat there’s hardly room to breathe
A thread of desert song
Winding high and falling, floating on the breeze

Give me the secrets of the land
Dirt and sweat and wood smoke
A splash of colour in the dark
Opal fire locked in ancient stone

Give me a crooked tree any day
Taut and twisted, strong and lean
There’s beauty in every line
Like man of the land, a crooked tree

credits

from Against The Tide, track released October 13, 2017
Mark Fairhurst – Drums
Mike Rix – Bass
Paul Vassallo – Slide Guitar
Jy-Perry Banks – Pedal Steel
Dave Burgess – Electric Guitar
Bronwyn Eather – Electric Guitar, Nashville Guitar and Vocals

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Bronwyn Eather Sydney, Australia

Born in Tasmania, Bronwyn Eather came to Sydney to study acting, following almost a decade of pioneering work as a field linguist in Arnhem Land, in the remote north of Australia. 'Brave Old World' is her third release, following 'Against The Tide' 2017 and 'On The Bones of Love' 2015. ... more

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