Track.2: Medicine Water

“Medicine Water”, although a war song, transcends the persecution of one of the Plains’ greatest survivors, the Cheyenne, to celebrate the pride and dignity of one of their most respected chiefs, Medicine Water. There is a fatalism in these lyrics that somehow still manages to convey the power of respect for a true leader – a combination of a belief system that has been earned and learned over a lifetime of hardship is cleverly woven into a lyrical form that poignantly states the plight of minority populations. Andrew Hogarth’s respect and admiration for this leader and his people is unmitigated.