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Odes & Meditations

Introduction The bridge to David Ramirez's “New Way of Living” haunts me: There’s a plumber down in Arkansas The best writer that I ever...

“ Hymn # 101 " “A man cannot have a sensuous nature and be pachydermatous at the same time, and if he be imaginative as well as sensuous,...

10. Descent from the Cross by Torchlight If there were any doubts remaining about the Gospels as the model for this album, the title...

9. No Place a Good Man Can Hide This penultimate track, with the last lyrics on the album, is the quintessence of a Joe Pug song:...

8. You’re Not a Secret There’s no obvious reason for this beautiful song’s inclusion at this point in the album. The scapegoat figure...