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    Bones & Secrets is the 2nd solo offering from Canadian based songwriter and harpist, Shannon Kingsbury. The physical CD package features a beautiful full colour booklet of illustrations by Ryan Price.

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Inspired by the story "Skeleton Woman" from the book Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

lyrics

So the story goes, at the bottom of the sea
lies a skeleton woman amoung the weeds
One day a fisherman casts his rod,
He pulls up her bones instead of a cod

When he reaches the shore, he runs for his life,
but she's caught in the line: his new ghastly wife
I've read this story and it comes to me in dreams,
I wake in a sweat and I just can't breathe,
I just wanna:

Break free from the cage of these ribs. Break free...
So the story goes, in the firelight,
fisherman takes pity on skeleton's plight
Carefully untangles her from the line,
puts her back together, almost looks alive

She takes his heart and plays it like a drum,
sings back her flesh and they join as one
I'd kill to know what made them so unafraid,
'cause me I just wanna melt away.
I just wanna:

Break free from the cage of these ribs,
I just wanna... break free...
I just wanna break free from the cage of these ribs,
I just wanna... break free ...

So the story goes, the lovers ran away,
helped by the creatures she knew 'neath the waves
As for me, you can see I'm still here,
but I think I feel a tug on this line over here...

credits

from Bones & Secrets, released May 7, 2017
Vocals & Harp: Shannon Kingsbury
Double bass, Percussion: Jeff Bird
Cornet, Water Harp & Percussion: Gary Diggins Tuba: Colin Couch
Vocals: Tricia Brubacher, Tannis Slimmon, Sue Smith

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Shannon Kingsbury Guelph, Ontario

Equal parts philosophical musing and modern mysticism, the stories and worlds conjured in Shannon's music are at once familiar and somehow borne of another time.

While firmly rooted in the songwriter tradition, the ever ambitious artist explores a diverse
sonic palette that features harp, cornet, hurdy gurdy, double bass, accordion, layered vocals, tuba and more. ... more

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