Track.9: Great Plains

In Andrew Hogarth’s words, the Great Plains “is a place where the distinctions between past, present and future are subtly blurred”. The ghosts of the past still roam the vastness of the prairie, haunting those places so redolent in tragedy and defeat. Entering this land through the lyrics and melody of “Great Plains”, one is taken by the timelessness of the space and the almost disturbing nature of the winds that blow with the magic of long-gone histories. History is alive here. A place of birth and death, of the absolute love of the freedom and honesty of life, the ancestral home of Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and Red Cloud, the undulating lands where the bison roamed, the Great Plains carry a message through eddies of burning sweet grass; it is all still here, waiting to cast its spell over today’s traveller.