this here's a flat music box
carved of red willow wood
lined with original tunes from original throats
sewn by an original band
like it's been filled with shavings planed
from the plains
song blossoms sprouted from dakota
people roots,
a family album of first time photos of life
from the musical lenses of midwestern eyes
twelve songs like fountains and springs
waterfalls and deep wells
from places always before thought dry
it's a new species entirely in here singing
like a dawn with seven skies
like first discovering a new color,
a new number,
new moons rising or a new lover
in here there're words braided
and tunes homemade
on looms of rivers and pines,
it's filled with what this garden
grew from seed
what's in here is twelve clear breaths harvested
from hearts and weeps and other
kinds of wings,
this here's all shaped from strings and
singing sticks
carved with a musical chisel
deep into this red willow box.

Jack Kreitzer
Bald Mountain

RED WILLOW BAND
THE ALBUM

Produced By - Chris Gage and Hank Harris
Executive Producer - Dale Gage
Arranged By - Red Willow Band
Engineer - Kim Wo
Final Mix - David Wo, The Red Willow Band.
Recorded at - Audio Etc., Sioux Falls, S.D. 1976

1. Magic Bird (Tom Peterson)
2. Cryin' in the Deep Blue Sea
    (Hank Thompson) Brazos Valley Music
3. Today I Smiled Away  (Bruce Preheim)
4. Greasy Hair  (Mark Henjum)
5. Rock Me Tonight (Susan Osborn)
6. Finding My Way  (Boyd Bristow)
7. You Can't Get There From Here
     (Red Willow)
8. Battle the Bottle  (Hank Harris)
9. Snow on Bald Mtn. 
     (Jack Kreitzer, Chris Gage
10. Hell or High Water (Tom Peterson)
11. C Jam Blues  (Duke Ellington)
     Belwin Mills Pub.
12. Very Old Friend (Chris Gage)