Alex Martin - Planing the Ragged Twilights

8. Planing the Ragged Twilights
The most “rockin’” song on the album, “Planing” is about the hard work of creating and nurturing community, and the acceptance or shaving away of the rough edges and differences—in personality, ideology, and otherwise—that allows us live together and appreciate each other. Dad wrote the poem on which this song is based in the 1980s, but it feels like it could have been written for our present moment. Sarah returns on fiddle, in conversation with my electric guitar.