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Vinyl LP pressing. 2021 . The album is his first truly solo album just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, Laysongs' centerpiece is the three-part InchSalt (in the Wounds) of the Earth,Inch which was inspired by C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. The album also features a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a performance of the fourth movement of Béla Bartók's Sonata for Solo Violin; InchGod Is Alive, Magic Is AfootInch based on Buffy Sainte-Marie's adaptation of a Leonard Cohen poem; a cover of bluegrass legend Hazel Dickens' InchWon't You Come and Sing for Me;Inch and an original instrumental loosely modeled after the Prelude from J.S. Bach's Partita for Solo Violin in E Major. Album Tracks 1. Laysong 2. Ecclesiastes 3. God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot 4. Salt (In the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 1 5. Salt (In the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 2 1. Salt (In the Wounds) of the Earth, Pt. 3 2. Sonata for Solo Violin, SZ. 117 IV. Presto 3. Dionysus 4. Won't You Come and Sing for Me
