Track.4: Lightning Creek

“Lightning Creek” is an emotive recollection of the tragedy that was the Sioux massacre at Lightning Creek. The music sets the scene, thrumming guitar and the heartbeat of drums build to transport the listener back to a time of inexorable blood-letting. Looking over their shoulders in wild-eyed fear, the people ran before a hail of bullets only to fall further behind in their attempts to join the white race. The pain of the victims is tangible; the perpetrators of the crime, the trophy hunters, are replaced, many year later, by the tribe’s indefatigable elders ,who, using no more than innate programming, return to locate and reclaim the bones of their tribes people and lay their souls to rest. The weary patience of these battle worn people endures in this haunting piece.