Montana Sky (Official) 2024 -Cary Morin

From Cary Morin's latest release, "Innocent Allies" (Jan 26th, 2024)
Lyrics by Cary Morin & Dave Duncan / Composed by Cary Morin
Cary Morin - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, backing vocals
Celeste Di Iorio - harmony vocals
Luke Hunter - bass guitar
"Innocent Allies, an epic musical journey concludes optimistically with 'Montana Sky,' the perfect sum total of all the previous offerings combined. As if channeling Russell fraternizing with some of his Native friends, he celebrates the spirit of the roundup, implying that no matter what happens in the context of the greater society, people of good faith can still bond, especially through the discipline of hard work and the love for the land it’s done on:
Roundup only reaches
The few who hear the call
The life I live is the life I love
The greatest gift of all
The freedom of the Western sky
A million stars shine so bright
In a big Montana sky"
-Gavin Macaulay
On a recent US tour, I visited my songwriter friend DL Duncan in Nashville, TN. DL Duncan is a well-known Nashville songwriter and has lived in the Music City for decades. During our visit, he asked me what I was working on. I explained the process for my CMR project and invited him to write a song with me. This happens often in Nashville so it seemed like the thing to do. I showed him some paintings and wrote a short description of my life at my grandfather’s house in Lodge Grass, MT. It wasn’t long before we were tossing lines back and forth. This is the very last song to be recorded for this project. I’m happy to collaborate with my friend Dave and pleased that this song occupies a spot on this album that I could never have done alone.