Judgement Day

(Badlands lullaby)

Americana, Blues- Rock, with a story attached.

Sung by Davey Pattison (Blues for Mother Nature"). This was an instrumental at one point, called "Sorcerer"- a sort of an imaginary western theme.

A dear friend, Ken Matthew of the IAM band, was listening to it while driving thru the Badlands of South Dakota, while dark storm clouds gathered. In his mind's eye he saw and heard this whole story unfold. He wrote a bunch of great lyrics and got me inspired to do something with the track. Davey sang it like he owned it, and when technical glitches trashed the kick and snare drum parts; Ken brought in some exotic hand drums and added them to Jimmy's cymbals. Then Steve Robertson's tablas (which he'd just brought back from his sojourn to India) took it even further. So tamboura, dobro, rattlesnake shakers and, of course, Elio Schiavo's lovely bluegrass mandolin, mailed in from his Manhattan studio, became essential tools in the telling of the tale.

Someday we'll make the movie...( Deep Smoky Voice) a Scotsman, his Lakota Sioux bride, an evil Posse, false accusations and resulting conflicts, some itinerant traveling musicians from India and Italy, heading west when they unknowingly step into the Twilight Zone and their fates intertwine.