Donny Hue and The Colors
Letter from New Virginia

tracklisting

1. into the woods 2. you're on your own (we could help) 3. i speak of the hayseed cousins 4. snakes entwined 5. lady tomcat and the turning trees 6. home of the apple #1 7. callidope 8. woods 9. that whistling in my ears 10. a good night's dream 11. fairlady of the springboard 12. out of the woods

Song, by Toad - A cracking album... put together really well – sequenced in such a way that it flows, and with the right combination of interludes and instrumentals, sad songs and happy ones to make it work extremely well as a single, whole piece of work... The band have a knack for the a gentle, roll-along version of Subterranean Homesick Blues-era Dylan.

Letter from New Virginia

We got off the bus and the sign wrote "Luray - 3 miles." It was our best option and Thomas was sorely in need of a haircut. I fidgeted in the dust by the side of the road and figured we could at least get cleaned up and take a nap. "Let's go," I said. So we went.

About a mile down the road forked three times over and no new signs suggested a solution. We stood still staring off in different directions. Then, "I say we go that-a-way." "No, we always go that-a-way, let's go this-a-way." "But the last time we went this-a-way we got lost so I can't understand why you'd want to go this-a-way this time." Everyone collectively groaned and we stood in silence. I looked around.

To the left was a row of trees with a field beyond, then more trees, and finally the mountains. To the right was the forest, alot of darkness, and then...who knows? I grew frustrated. What were we doing and why had we done it anyway? Something had to give. I looked towards the sky, maybe it had an answer. The clouds hastened forth, the sun was nowhere to be found. Figures. Behind me, in the distance, lay the horizon and where we had come from (It's been a little too long to remember exactly where that was). The clouds there stood still, the road leading from it seemed content. I'd just made up my mind when i noticed something in the woods. A light. Was it a home? A lantern? At this point anything would do. I turned to alert the group but nobody was there. I jerked back to look behind me and then again to the sky. What happened? The wind began to pick up. Movement at the edge of the woods caught my eye, but then it was gone. Probably nothing. Still, I had no choice.