Harefoot’s Retreat

This came to me on my mandola, a hundred year-old Gibson with strong opinions, a dark sense of humour and a deep warmth that always inspires. The song wrote itself quickly. The band brings this one to life, grabbing textures out of thin air and putting their personalities right into it. I spent our last UK tour reading a book I picked up at a gas station on the monarchs of Britain, and Harefoot was a short-lived Viking king of England. He was rumoured to have died of elf-shot - an attack by invisible elves shooting invisible arrows.