Musing: The Civil Wars

My cousin is a singer/songwriter whose first mainstream album was just released to rave reviews this week. I love what she and her co-writer/singer are doing with their music! Honesty in art is so powerful. With songs like "Poison and Wine" and "Barton Hollow," they gently, even joyfully lift the veil from the insatiable thirst that is at the core of what it means to be human...the "intractable vulnerability of what it means to be human," to quote CS Lewis. Their art is an invitation to experience human relationships honestly, to see them for what they are...glorious, frightening, full of promise, pain, and never quite enough. For each one, beloved as may be, is merely a signpost showing us that we have not quite found the One we look for.

Http://www.thecivilwars.com

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