Alex Martin - A Lightfoot Death

6. A Lightfoot Death
This song consists of excerpts from Dad’s chronicle of the last weeks of the man he called his “mountain father.” The parallels between his experience visiting Philo in the hospital in Marion and my own, more than three decades later, caring for Dad during his decline, were inescapable. Jodi weaves gentle cello commentary around Jess’s vocal before another exquisitely rendered solo. My friend the folk musician and artist Vernon Sears, whose roots are in Harlan County, Kentucky, incarnates Philo during the spoken passages, and Will harmonizes with Jess and Vernon on the final chorus.