The Dark Season is sweeping down upon us, so here’s a spot of dark work I will be recording soon. “Life’s the parade of the dyingIt’s the dance of the already dead.We’re dancing away every momentTo the music that plays in our heads…” As many of you know, I grew up on a working farm. …
I wrote “Magic all around Us” in 2020 and recorded it in 2022. The story of the song is older than the song itself. When I was in my thirties I rode the mountain trails around Coker Creek in the Cherokee National Forest frequently. It is a beautiful area to hike, ride, and/or camp. On …
“She’s getting no rest, she just failed her pregnancy test. How’s she gonna care for a little child? She can barely feed herself, no food’s left on the shelf. Frustration makes her rage and scream and cry.” I wrote Nothing Holy but the Blood for The Red Album: Pagan Voices for Reproductive Rights, to add another step on …
“March me up a mountain. Push me off the edge I’d rather die flyin’ Than to ever leave this ridge…” I was going to write about Nothing Holy but the Blood, my contribution to the upcoming compilation, The Red Album. Instead I chose to write about aging and starting over. A few years ago, after …
In this, the Dark time of the year, I chose to write about something we all will face. As I age, I contemplate that day when Lady Death will stretch out Her hands to me. Not the skeletal hands of crude illustrations from the Middle Ages, but the warm, calloused, welcoming hands of an old …
Originally, I was going to write about my song “Dread Persephone,” but since Spring has passed I decided, instead, to write about a much darker vision, the awakening of the Dark Mother. Crow Whispers is one of two pieces I wrote, inspired by an apocalyptic dream. I awoke at 3 AM that morning writing frantically …
I believe many of us are Daughters, yes, and Sons of Lilith. She is the Dark Mother in my pantheon. She is the archetype and personification of everything I believe… She is fierce, brutal, and brutally honest. She has neither the time nor the patience for lies or deception. She is passionate and erotic beyond …
Louis Garou is the newest addition to the Pagan Song blogging team. In this post, he shares his insights into songwriting in the Pagan Music genre, and gives the inside story of three of his songs: Rise up Lilith, Not this Time and My Other Side. Welcome, Louis! I am a songwriter. I write, sing, …
