Singer/songwriter and folk artist David Huckfelt (The Pines) released his second solo effort Room Enough, Time Enough – an eclectic collection of songs that attempts to bring a sense of healing and renewal after the division and damage the Trump administration brought to the country and the hard times Covid brought. More specifically, Room Enough, Time Enough is an effort to restore balance: space and attention, peace and equality, redeeming the marginalized and remembering the forgotten. Huckfelt was very ambitious with this album and assembled a host of friends, contemporaries, strangers, artists, outlaws, and cowboys for these once-in-a-lifetime recording sessions at Dust + Stone studio in Tucson, AZ. The list of guest performers includes: Ojibwe ambassador of Native Americana music Keith Secola, Tucson songwriting legend Billy Sedlmayr, Giant Sand founder Howe Gelb, former Bob Dylan drummer Winston Watson, South Dakota Indigenous singer Jackie Bird, Arizona Blues Hall of Fame harmonica player Tom Walbank, and from Calexico Connor Gallaher on pedal steel and Jon Villa on trumpet. Other noteworthy musicians that appear include Iowa folk legend Greg Brown, Dave Simonett & Ryan Young (Trampled by Turtles), Pieta Brown, Jeremy Ylvisaker (Andrew Bird), J.T. Bates (Big Red Machine, Taylor Swift), Erik Koskinen, Michael Rossetto, and more, adding the finishing touches to this inspired mix of original, Indigenous and public domain songs. The sessions culminated in an album that combines the tradition of ancient ritual and the power of song to bring awareness to the resilience and protection over our land, our loves, our resistance, and a plea to bring connection and compassion into our lives. Notable tracks include: the ethereal opening track “Better to See the Face”; a dreamy cover of Keith Secola’s haunting song “Book of Life”; the Mariachi-tinged cover of the old cowboy ballad “Bury Me Not (The Dying Cowboy)”; the poignant title track; the hypnotic, affecting take on Patti Smith’s “Ghost Dance”; the hazy desert kissed version of Johnny Cash’s “Satisfied Mind”; and the closing chant-filled “Calling Thunderbird Blues.” David Huckfelt’s Room Enough, Time Enough is a stunning and moving album and likely one of the best that will be released this year. – Written by JFelton
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