It took a long time to choose the perfect wedding song, and then we did choose one, and it was, indeed, perfect. Northern Sky by, Nick Drake, sitting there all this time in my music library, unbeknownst to me until I thought - hmmm, I love Nick Drake, and "northern sky?" that's pretty apropos... Then we listened, googled the lyrics, and were blown away about how it pretty much said it all. This was the one.
So I sent some chords to Matt, who'd already agreed to play and sing whatever we'd chosen, because he's terrific like that, and he learned it, came up here for the wedding and called a couple days before to say that he'd lost his voice, maybe his sister could sing while he played guitar? Yes, sounds lovely, anything you devise, maestro. Turned out that they sang together, his voice was a-ok, a beautiful duet of them together, more than I'd hoped, both smiles and tuneful serenade.
Today as Shana, his sister, and I embarked on our first radio show endeavor together, just minutes before, Matt's email arrived with this recording of the song, the two of them singing together this song, an aural and enduring gift of music. When I got home Jim and I listened to it and were just two happy people hearing dear friends sing for us:
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