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Thundersnow was written many years after an event, but I feel like it captured it pretty well. It was mid-October in the late '90s, and one afternoon it started thundering like crazy. The snow started coming down in giant globs. Byrn Paul was about four years old at the time, and of course we wanted to run out and play in it! So he and I suited up and Calvin-and-Hobbesed our way out the door into ... silence. Nothing but the thunder and and us out there. Everything had ground to a halt. It was fantastic. The part about the pears is Truth. Byrn has slightly different memories of the event than I do; mostly it was heavy and very wet, and he was getting cold fast. But it was paradise while it lasted. So happy that I talked Byrn ("my own little boy") into playing some steel on this tune. He's a beautiful guitarist and composer. Christine's bass line is IT.

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I haven’t seen it snow like this in years
It’s coming down like giant tears
From a heavy sky
It’s covering the farm, stilling everything
Silence reigns, but for the laughter we bring
As we run outside

Watch it comin’ down through the thundercloud
Like wet, white rain
See it tumble, hear the rumble
Feel alive again
Oh for joy
Oh for joy

Pears are still hanging on the tree
We pull them down and start to eat
It’s magic of the highest order
No taste has ever been so sweet
As these snow-covered pears, right off the tree
It’s nothing short of nectar

You and me the only souls
Out here in the cold
It’s like some kind of secret
And I could almost cry for joy
That I got to share this with my little boy
The silence and the sweetness

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from The Light You Can't See in the Day, released October 25, 2022
Alma Drake: acoustic guitar, vocal
Christine Moad: bass
Ryan Rumery: drums, hand percussion
Pat Smith: electric guitar
Byrn D Paul: steel
Andrew Teutsch: keys

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Alma Drake (fka Gayla Drake) has been playing and performing music for over 50 years, and writing songs for over 40. They are currently a full-time sound therapy practitioner, but they continue to create and perform music on their own, with several bands, and with the Family Folk Machine choir. ... more

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