The Water is Wide

"The Arrow and the Song" is pianist/composer Brad Jacobsen’s fourth solo piano album to date. Inspired by nature, poetry and changing seasons, the twelve pieces on the album are somewhat quieter and more peaceful than Jacobsen’s previous release, "13 Tales." One track is a beautiful medley of “The Water Is Wide” and “Shenandoah” while another is an arrangement of “By the Banks (Loch Lomond),” but the other ten are original compositions intended to uplift, soothe, and inspire.

Double CD, 52 track "cowboy folk opera" features a who's who of legendary Americana icons including Johnny Cash, Gretchen Peters, Guy Clark, Joe Ely, Tex Ritter, Dan Penn and many, many more.
For over four decades and 28 album releases Tom Russell has continued to live up to his status as "one of the best singer-songwriters of our time" (Washington Post). His previous two studio releases, Blood and Candle Smoke (2009) and Mesabi (2011), are considered his strongest composed works yet and were, in part, recorded with the groundbreaking roots band Calexico.