Listener Kathy G from South Berwick, ME requested this song, with this note: "So..been thinking about what a shit year this has been…how I wish I had something to take me away, to make it better, ease the hurt, the missing of my girls and my friends and my world…..it brought me to Joni Mitchell’s The River which I have loved for over 4 1/2 decades. So that’s my contribution. Play me that….Here to 2021….hoping for health and peace and a river to take us away from the roughness of 2020."
Ken recorded in an underground space in Roswell, NM, creating the sounds by blowing over the tops of bottles. He says "Takuskanskan" is a Native American (Dakota) wind spirit/trickster."
She is an American Canadian Abenaki filmmaker, singer, artist and activist primarily known for her documentary films.[1] Born in New Hampshire, United States and raised primarily in Quebec, Canada. Works for National Film Board of Canada
Wani wachiyelo Ate omakiyayo (Father help me I want to live)
Atay nimichikun (Father you have done this)
Oshiya chichiyelo (Humbly have pity on me)
Wani wachiyelo Atay omakiyayo (Father help me I want to live)
Wani wachiyelo Atay (Father I want to live)