Alex Martin - Echoes in the Jamison Gap

7. Echoes in the Jamison Gap
In this song, my father recalls more stories Philo told him, this time about the men and women who lived in the cabins along the Jamison Gap, in years going back to the Civil War. Cutting wood on his mountain, Dad hears the sound of his ax bounce off the opposite ridge, and in it the echo of these lives and deaths in woods that have since gone largely silent. He “says their names,” so that their spirits live on, as presences that envelop him. Jess’s vocal and Sarah Foard’s haunting fiddle people this landscape with ghosts.