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Talking In Tongues: Woven Hand

By Lenny Kaye, eMusic Contributor

To twine the spiritual and the earthly — that is the mission of the preacher, as it is the musician. David Eugene Edwards is both. Washed in the blood of celebrated "pulpit orators," with DNA spiraling back to ecclesiastical refugees that populated the rocky shores of New England; himself a product of the western frontier (the cliffs surrounding Denver, Colorado), he does not so much sing as chant, declaim, foresee, in language rich in parable… more »