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This is an older instrumental that’s been looking for a name for a long time. Since I’ve been inspired by Kristin Hersh’s, “Kristin With an Eye” images to connect my songs to her visuals (ala “Southern Waste”), I though it made sense to finally give it a name.

Here’s Kristin’s image that retroactively inspired the song:

And, here’s the song:

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Sachuest Point

It was written many moons ago upstairs in the little make-shift studio I put together above the Ryko offices in Gloucester. I’d disappear on occasion, when the business overtook the art, to try and remember what pulled me into this business in the first place.

The sort of drone-y under current in the song is a dulcimer. While sort of thought of as the autoharp’s less cool cousin, dulcimers are actually pretty happening. Have a listen, for instance, to this:

“Everybody hit the ground,” indeed.

Sachuest Point by George Howard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.