Alex Martin - Twang

3. Twang
As a guitar player, I obviously had to include this one. I love what I hear as this poem’s mischievous playfulness, and my jazzy setting tries to respond to that, as do, for me, Jess’s clarinet solos. Gabby Cameron’s banjo adds to the twang. My father’s mountain cabin was far from any electrical or other utility lines, but he nevertheless filled it with music: Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms on a stereo powered by car batteries. Long before this album, music infused his poetry.