best of 2022 • Big Thief • Red Moon

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There is a jubilance to these performances, even a joyousness. A wailing fiddle, played by guest member Mat Davidson (aka Twain), loosens up the country stomp of “Red Moon” and the gorgeous, blue-eyed harmonies of “Dried Roses.”

Red moon rising like a fire in me

So many questions, she asks them all to me

I have to answer most curiously

Scarlet angel, I am too small to see

Earn earn, shuffle round the big city

Burning the rubber down, crossing the hot concrete

I'm gonna leave town, there is someone to meet

She turns her head around a full 360

Woo

Bedroom rising from an old growth tree

Bringing out the sawmill, cutting the 12 inch beams

Building a pattern, the reservoir to fill with dreams

Rings like Saturn telling their old story