Ready to be Loved

by Jason Wilson feat. Carl Harvey

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Wheel Records/Proper Music Distribution present Ready to be Loved.
In 2012, archeologists found a fossil from a young teenage girl who lived 90,000 years ago in the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, Russia. ‘Denny’ – as she is now known – is remarkable because she is an archaic human hybrid; her mother was Neanderthal and her father was Denisovan. Here, Wilson reimagines what might have been her life. Was Denny emblematic of some sort of unification of or diplomatic truce between two separate human tribes? Or was she simply the lovechild of a 90,000 year old incarnation of Romeo and Juliette?

lyrics

There’s a song lies sleeping deep beneath the dirt
A ballad bred-in-bone, no one can subvert
Wake now Denny, flesh out the pain and hurt
Lady of the two tribes, it’s long been time enough
Are you ready, are you ready to be loved?
The spirit of the cave bear, by the hearth of the mixed blood
Are you ready…
Did you wear the elk tooth
and don his marble ring?
Did you sound her flute
‘round yon clear mountain spring?
Was your head adorned with feathers from the raven’s wing?
Queen of the in betweens
Bring all below above
Are you ready…
For all of the unbelonging shall give a true account thereof
Are you ready…
Lady of the two tribes, it’s long been time enough
Are you ready, are you ready to be loved?
By the spirit of the cave bear, by the hearth of the mixed blood
Are you ready…
The ochre stain revealed the diamond in the rough
Are you ready…
For all of us unbelonging shall give a true account thereof
Are you ready…

credits

released March 19, 2021
MUSICIANS:
Marcus Ali – flute, soprano saxophone
Iain Green – drums
Carl Harvey – lead guitar
Perry Joseph – guitar, vocals
Laurel Tubman – vocals
Jason Wilson – vocals, keyboards, bass
CREDITS:
Co-Produced by Carl Harvey and Jason Wilson
Mixed by Carl Harvey
Co-Engineered by Carl Harvey, Bernie Cisternas and Jason Wilson
Recorded at Number 9, Jessie’s Jazz Café and Valley Road Studio
Mastered at Silverbirch Studios
Legal Counsel: Geoffrey Sharpe, Q.C.
Management: Sebastian Cook, BEAT Network
Publicity: Jason Schneider Media
Website: Joris van Drunen Littel
Bookings North America: AIM Booking Agency aimbookingagency.com
Bookings UK & Europe: John Barrow, Stoneyport, jb@stoneyport.uk

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Jason Wilson Toronto, Ontario

Jason Wilson is a two-time Juno-Awards nominee, CRMA winner and
Bestselling author from Downsview, Ontario. He is the protégé of Studio One keyboardist Jackie
Mittoo and has performed and recorded with UB40, Sly & Robbie, Brinsley
Forde, Ernest Ranglin, Pee Wee Ellis, Dave Swarbrick
and Alanis Morissette. An Adjunct-Professor of history, Dr. Wilson has six books to his name. ... more