Bonny Light Horseman - The Roving (official audio)

From the debut s/t album out 24 Jan 2020 on 37d03d.
The timeless qualities of traditional tunes can carry us across oceans and eons, linking us not only to the past but to each other as well. It was under the banner of those eternal connections that the trio of Bonny Light Horseman came together. From festival fields and a German art hub to a snowy upstate studio and everywhere in between, the astral folk outfit-comprised of Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats, The Shins), and Josh Kaufman (The National, Bob Weir)-is mixing the ancient, mystical medium of transatlantic traditional folk music with a contemporary, collective brush. The resulting album, Bonny Light Horseman, is an elusive kind of sonic event: a bottled blend of lightning and synergy that will excite fans of multiple genres, eras, and ages.
The album features fellow 37d03d artists-in-residence Michael Lewis (bass, saxophone) and JT Bates (drums) as well as Justin Vernon, Aaron Dessner, Kate Stables, Lisa Hannigan, The Staves, Christian Lee Hutson, and more. Leaving the 2018 37d03d Berlin event with roughly 60-percent of a record, the band reconvened at Dreamland Studios in Woodstock, NY, in January 2019 to finish, bringing Lewis and Bates as well as engineer Bella Blasko along with them.
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[@captaingrizzly9511]

got drunk to play video games ended up just listening to this song for 2 hours.

[@Dhrazia]

Sounds like something i'd do

[@Elvenlord4]

I was attemping to play Switch and got lost in the music.

[@brucekreitzberg7876]

Is “moodscape” a word or am I making it up? This song is not moving me lyrically, but the music, oh yeah. To hear it is to be immediately transported to another mood and that mood is one that most people have known at one time or another. Hearing this song pop out of my truck radio is like walking through a door into an entirely different landscape all at once.

[@free_siobhan]

This song makes getting dumped sound like heaven.

[@stunter2875]

One of the good things about technology is finding artists like this. Hopefully they get down towards NC because I will pay the money to see and support them.Ty

[@tamtamj8787]

Her voice is beautiful. Takes you to a magical place listening to her sing.

[@andrejabaj]

Skoča brought me here 😍

[@ksenijalipovan9126]

Me too

[@stevenremenda6755]

I am truly and deeply moved by the beauty and sadness of the reality and memories this song brings.I love it!! As well as all they perform.

[@katieblount]

This is a truly great song! Anais Mitchell keeps getting better and better and better and better and better.......Congratulations Bonny Light Horsemen! Looking forward to the album!

[@Dhrazia]

Doesnt she just! Mega talented

[@nicolafigini784]

Totally agree.

[@jazzsoulfan]

Please, please, please members of "Bonny Light Horseman" make more of such fantastic tracks like "The Roving". The soft voice of Anaïs Mitchell, the light drumming, the accompanying piano and the soft guitar in the back let me dive into another world. This piece of music let me look out of a window over the fields of gold in the sun. A light summer breeze flows around my head while I'm standing in a cozy quiet living room looking outside! This song has such a warm atmosphere, it's almost indescribably beautiful! Thanks for such sweet sounds!

[@tomallen5837]

not to worry, anyone with an umlaut in their name.. gotta be more coming! (she HAS to live up to Anaïs' umlaut!)

[@stevenremenda6755]

This song has been haunting me...so with guitar in hand , I’ve been playing and singing it often😁 Wow Thankyu Bonnie light Horsemen!! For all your work. I’m very moved by “ Magpies Nest” also!!! Whew!!🥲

[@thewiseoutlaw41]

Wow….the song haunted me until I recently learned it also, and I am also named Steven! I will have to go deeper into their recordings, I loved Anais’ solo work also, which reminds me, I have to learn Shepherd! 🎸 This is such a deep, beautiful song.

[@darkgable619]

Heard this on the CBS morning show. Her voice and the melody is amazing. More please.

[@dhriti56]

The simplicity of song with the lady's voice is what good music is all about...play it in a car and everyone hums to rhythm...

[@leehall4595]

Superb, lost in dreams of yesteryear and tomorrow's hopes.

[@kurt6597]

Heard this song on KEXP today, so good!

[@scottmidler8603]

Annie, loving Annie Come give me your hand You said that if you marry I could be the man > The roving, the roving of her eye > I knew her love was changing > By the roving of her eye Early in the summer My Annie passed me by I knew her love was changing By the roving of her eye Later in the summer With a bottle in my hand Saying "drink with me, my Annie" For our love is at an end I go down to the water When everyone's asleep And I think of loving Annie Wherever she may be

[@kimgordon3695]

💝

[@rexhargrove5172]

Thank you

[@jazzsoulfan]

Such depressing damn good lyrics!

[@tattoofthesunn795]

Best new music I've heard in a long time. And the live versions are killer

[@davidhadley1772]

this song hits my soul like few have, WOW! so beautiful, love,,,,,

[@collinpeel3557]

Woah this song is great!

[@thenickneagle]

This album can't come out soon enough!

[@waynetrumbo8147]

LOVING THIS TUNE IN SPRINGFIELD OHIO 2020 ...

[@stuartrobertsonbbc]

It's a version of traditional song, Mary Black does a version called "Loving Hannah" - worth a listen too

[@sizzlechest69]

No wonder this resonates so strongly. I was wondering how someone could create such a timeless sounding line.

[@telijah3]

Anais Mitchell's voice so touching, it goes straight to my heart! Thank you.

[@tracymatthews9156]

Saw them on CBS..love this song..so great

[@SafiaOs]

Such a beautiful song!❤️

[@qp87447]

WOOOOOO THE BEST MAKES ME CRY thank you💜💜💜💜💜🎧🌌💞🌈💞🌌🎧🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😊

[@tamtamj8787]

Beautiful song. I love this group! Who could not like this music! Some people have terrible taste in music and must be tone deaf!

[@Dhrazia]

Wonderful stuff from Anais and the band!!

[@podese7979]

Please don't let this band die. Saaaaa gooood.

[@Bsalts123]

I been listening to this at .5x speed and its making me feel more sad and hopeless but also good in a weird way. just a pro tip...

[@connorstubbs4985]

On repeat, bro.

[@jeffrymes1242]

Beautiful

[@fatherted79]

Yes, this is it!

[@Jonathanschofield100]

beautiful

[@TheRJGD]

So beautiful song!!

[@poppychoppy5091]

How beautiful!!!!

[@sizzlechest69]

This song is devastating.

[@Bsalts123]

I been listening to this at .5x speed and it's making me feel sadder and more hopeless but also good in a weird way. just a pro tip..

[@Bsalts123]

ok if you need to pick yourself up you can listen at 1.25X for some serotonin

[@mrgarza1993]

The live version at The Chapel is in my opinion, the best version of the song! Wish i could download that version

[@biancakaye2721]

Heading for big things! Great music.

[@wml1950]

Beautiful voice & feeling.. for me, a little reminiscent of Wendy Waldmen's voice who I like so much!!

[@rodhubic9842]

Sonic Bliss - so in love

[@rexhargrove5172]

Good god this is amazing

[@josianedupre5464]

Cool !

[@STP1991]

Sweet tune 🤙🤙💯

[@bomsen88]

Such a nice song, have parts that reminds me of Savoy's Velvet song :)

[@synnovesonn]

Bomsen88 mentioned Savoy's - better known with (Paul) Savoy's band a-ha (the guys that are famous for ). The essence of is the chords in . Enjoy the original here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGLHhYqjpNiVjqM

[@ginaduarte3001]

This is one of those songs that is love at first listen. So pretty. Owes perhaps a bit to The Cranberries, among others.

[@nandoabril1820]

Maravilla por favor

[@SafiaOs]

Can you please post the lyrics of your songs online ? thanks !

[@figure8analogy677]

🎶❤️🎶...The quality of our dreams is both a reflection of our thoughts and actions as well as a general foreshadowing of the fate of our souls in the next life...A nightly, temporary karma that beckons us to change - for the good - so as to avoid a more permanent karma. A karma that is inflicted not by this or that “religion”, but instead by our eternal inner witness (that sits at the matrix of consciousness, who witnesses all of our deeds) when this body is shed. Terrible people consequently have terrible nightmares. It’s an intrinsic law of human nature that’s deniable, yet self-evident. Occasionally they’ll have a pleasant dream that will try and prod them towards loving kindness, just as good people will occasionally have nightmares for various other reasons(from PTSD to being on a pharmaceutical that isn’t good for us to eating too much pizza or chocolate before sleep, etc). But ultimately, the overall quality of our dreams that inevitably accrues over a lifetime directly correlates with the type of person we are and our character as human beings, and thus portends our “fate” with regards to the afterlife. And once the terrible people of this world realize that those nightmares that they most assuredly are having not only reflect their actions in this life, but also the fate of their souls in the next, those terrible actions that are being mirrored back to them in their dreams -as nightmares- will become harder and harder to commit...Until then, good people will continue to suffer during the day, and terrible people will continue to suffer during the night. Beauty(🌷)+Complexity(🌎) =Intent(❤️) The Figure 8 Analogy: An analogy on life, death, the dream-state and the symbolism intertwined within the human experience. We human beings are not traveling in the abstract motion of a straight line towards death (for instance, the numerical straight line of say 1-89). Instead, we are moving in the motion of a figure 8. The Figure 8 is a natural repeating pattern that is divided into two halves and is thus the perfect symbol to represent the human life cycle and our two primary states of existence that we are continuously moving in and out of -the Awake state and the Dream state. When we awake from sleep we come full circle to when we fall back asleep (represented by the bottom half of the figure 8 )and when we go into the dream state we come full circle to when we awake from the dream state (represented by the top half of the figure 8 ). Upon death; the figure 8 of life untwines, but it’s not the body untwining from the mind that this analogy represents. It's two states of mind untwining to form a larger state of mind. (8-0) Because the awake state is really a state -of mind, with our body's physical reality "consciously" intertwined; and the dream-state is also a state of mind, with our body's physical reality "subconsciously" intertwined. Therefore; upon death, these two states of mind untwine to form a “larger” state of mind. A state that has all the potentialities of the dream world (flying, telepathy, psychokinesis, etc) combined with all the actualities of the awake world(nature, form, bonds, etc). This I refer to as the transitional analogy. While conceiving The Figure 8 Analogy, I realized life and death must be perceived -from one point of view- as seperate entities(the transitional analogy(8-0), but must also be perceived -from another point of view- as inseparable entities(the symbolic analogy👇), both of which are ultimately linked by the dream-state. The symbolic analogy consists of the untwined figure 8 of life/the 'circle of death’, if you will, which -abstractly- overlapps the ‘circle of life’/the Earth, with the overlappment representing the dream-state, like the common area in a venn diagram, and implies that the dream state is just as much a part of life as is of death ~by which semi-explains precognitive dreams, prodromal dreams, "visitations" by deceased relatives, etc; for the dream-state has a foothold in the afterlife, and is based on the premise that “while our body sleeps, our dream state symbolically represents the state that awaits upon our body's ultimate rest.” In other words, while we are lying down and sleeping/dreaming, this natural process symbolizes where we go when we're ultimately lying down/dead -to a place "like" our dream-state...A state "of mind” with our body's physical form+bonds eternally engrained and intertwined. 👁~8~👁

[@herbertrichard614]

I dream about racing to withdraw from college and not getting in my second serve. Not sure how this is going to direct me toward Heaven away from Hell. Karma is nothing more than the fact that transgressive action is emotionally destabilizing. Therefore, it tends to bring on further negative experiences. Cause and effect, in English.

[@johncrowther4328]

Food for thought fascinating very interesting words eloquently articulated enjoyed very much what you expressed there in that amazing comment.

[@figure8analogy677]

@@johncrowther4328 many thanks my friend❤️

[@miketh57]

👉❤️👈

[@sevsthepokey]

I love it! Consider adding a bass for the next album

[@JasonUmbrellabird]

Capo 3 DADF#AD. Intro is a bit difficult and fiddly Bm-020020 D-000000 E-222222 G-555555. Verse Em-222100 D-000000 A-x02342

[@Vedder1992]

Lovely tune but what exactly is the song about?

[@hilliardamy2837]

Vedder 1992 i think she is singing about a love story that has come to an end.

[@lightronv]

Astigmatism

[@user-zb2bp4in9b]

Anais's vocal range is very limited. But this song doesn't take a whole lot of range, and she aces it, thanks in large part to her back up singers and band. Good stuff on this album. And the cover art is classic.

[@bensharp9434]

🔥🔥 Is this listentnig all the time This video Phenomenal 1:49 👇🔥