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My Father's Songs

by Kirsten Adamson

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“My Father’s Songs,” perhaps the most personal song on Adamson's forthcoming album Landing Place. Recounting the relationship with her late father, Stuart Adamson (Big Country/The Skids), Adamson takes us on a journey of reconnection and remembrance.

Although the song is co-written with producer Dean Owens who conceived the melody and hook line during a morning meditation, it is clear that the story is uniquely Adamson’s. In the lines “Now I listen to my father with the wind howling through the trees/From hero's tales to pain and truth/Sweet Celtic melodies.” we learn how she “never knew her father until she sang her father’s songs.” The slide guitar solo echoes these sentiments played by Jon Mackenzie on Adamson's father’s Antigua Burst Fender Strat.

lyrics

I would listen to my father
When he talked about the road
He’d say all you do is hurry up
And hang around some more
And I’d wait for him to call each night
And say he won’t be long

But I never knew my father
'Til I sang my father’s songs

My mother always told me
That I sang before I could talk
She said life’s a dance you have to learn
Don’t run before you walk
So I spent my childhood singing along
Learning right from wrong

But I never knew my father
'Till I sang my father’s song

The summer days were golden
On the road my dad and me
Loaded up on hopes and dreams
From Fife to Tennessee
I was searching for a place to land
Somewhere to belong

But I never knew my father
'Till I sang my father’s songs

Oh to me he'll be forever young
As I carry him in me
And my journey's just beginning
Now through his eyes I see

I listen to my father
With the wind howling through the trees
From heroes tales to pain and truth
Sweet Celtic melodies
I don’t have all the answers and
Some things are best unknown

For I never knew my father
'Till I sang my fathers songs

I never knew my father
'Till I sang my fathers songs

No I never knew my father
'Till I sang my fathers songs

Kirsten Adamson & Dean Owens 2021

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released January 20, 2023

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Kirsten Adamson Scotland, UK

Kirsten Adamson is a diverse singer-songwriter from Scotland. With her remarkably versatile voice and vulnerable songwriting, she summons the listener with minimal adornments

kirstenadamson.com

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