A Wingfeather Song

So there I was, checking email late one night. I got one with a song attached, which isn’t out of the ordinary. The sender made a disclaimer, saying her friend heard this little song she wrote and told her she should email it to me. It’s not a finished song or anything, she said. Just something funny and dreamy she came up with on the fly after reading On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness.

And at that moment I crossed a literary threshold. I thought immediately of Leonard Nimoy singing about Bilbo Baggins, and how it heralded the invasion of Tolkien’s story into the culture at large. Caitlin Nethery of the band Carousel Rogues may not be Spock, and the Wingfeather Saga is a far cry from The Hobbit, but it heralds, well–

Okay, so maybe all it did was thrill me that my story fired up someone’s imagination a little, and out came this odd, pretty little song. The coolest part of this story? I emailed the song to Ben Shive and Andy Gullahorn (the Captains Courageous), and Andy did a little research on this Caitlin Nethery with the intriguing voice and unusual musical sensibility. Turns out she’s in a band called Carousel Rogues, and their music is pretty great.

So Ben Shive contacted them. One thing led to another, and it looks like he’s producing their first record. I sat down and had coffee with the Rogues a few weeks ago, and was able to personally thank them for the delightfully geeky gift of this song. Hope you enjoy it.

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