Weaving Love and Connection Jamie Isman

When asked to review their new CD, "Down that Road", I was so excited!:) because in the last few months it has absolutely been one of my favorite musical companions.  It takes the craft of songwriting and does my favorite things; it brings it home to community and family, to earth consciousness, and shares the deep revelations of soul mates.  This art is made with deep purpose and meaning.  It is a prayer, and an offering of spirit. Green and Root's voices and spirits offer a sanctuary for pagan and queer communities.  They also offer a strong, yet gentle transition place for the more mainstream communities to begin to open to marriage between women.  These are true folk songs. There is something that seems so easy and real and basic about their love, as if there has always been a cozy niche in the world for romantic love between women.  This album is truly a healing and a revolutionary act of courage.  It is graceful.  It is a joyous and generous merging to witness. Green's songwriting poetically weaves love and connection, whether it be with her beloved, with the natural world, with her mother, with her relationship with muse, or with death.  Root's harmonies and technical skills weave in support, foundation, and deep beauty.  These melodies have emotional depth that build and change and that ebb and flow, into both darkness and light,  journey into grief, mourning and fear, and then transition into hope and emergence.  It is an honest human portrayal, and an intimate soul journey. As much as this album is about marriage, love and devotion to partnership, it is also deeply about Green's process around her mother's death.  The reverence and love that Green shows in her grieving process is profound.  Her love and devotion for her partner, as well as for the mourning of her mother, creates the feeling that Green has a very imminent, real, and present relationship with Goddess. That the love for the divine mother and earth mother merge and blend often for her.  It is a blessing for the listener to be given this healing... The reverence for Goddess is apparent in so many ways.  Green's connection to Earth mother, to the river muse,to the flowers, and with the fairy folk, is medicine for the urban witch.  Her journeys are an honest and poignant portrayal of both the courage it takes and the heartbreak that occurs, while living in the city, and the journeys one takes to renew the spirit and to call it home. Green's songs can feel frolicy, earthy, sometimes sunny, sometimes misty, and always emotionally moving and joyfully metaphoric. This album is organically Green and Root.  It's humble and powerful. It makes you feel like the heart is truly the place that you want to come home to. Green and Root's dedication to the creative soul, to renewal and transformation, and to growth within partnership, is deeply rooted and flowering in this beautifully crafted work of art.