內容簡介
內容簡介 The album is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, Laysongs' centerpiece is the three-part “Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth,” which was inspired by C.S. Lewis'sThe Screwtape Letters. The album also features a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a performance of the fourth movement of Béla Bartók's Sonata for Solo Violin; “God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot” based on Buffy Sainte-Marie's adaptation of a Leonard Cohen poem; a cover of bluegrass legend Hazel Dickens''“Won't You Come and Sing for Me;” and an original instrumental loosely modeled after the Prelude from J.S. Bach's Partita for Solo Violin in E Major Tracklist 1. Laysong 4:51 2. Ecclesiastes 4:15 3. God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot 5:00 4. Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 1 3:27 5. Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 2 4:43 6. Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 3 4:50 7. Sonata for Solo Violin, Sz. 117: IV. Presto 4:46 8. Dionysus 4:49 9. Won't You Come and Sing for Me 4:07"