the National Lights

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O, Ohio 00:00 Tools
Better For It, Kid 00:00 Tools
Mess Around 00:00 Tools
Midwest Town 00:00 Tools
The Dead Will Walk 00:00 Tools
Buried Treasure 00:00 Tools
Riverbed 00:00 Tools
Killing Swallows 00:00 Tools
The Water Is Wide 00:00 Tools
Lantern and Whalebone 00:00 Tools
Swift Ships 00:00 Tools
The Whaleship Essex 00:00 Tools
A Dead Whale or a Stove Boat 00:00 Tools
Joshua Slocum Sets Sail 00:00 Tools
Killing Wallows 00:00 Tools
Better For It Kid 00:00 Tools
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The National Lights is the primary song-writing project of Jacob Thomas Berns. Assisted by the arrangements Ernest Christian Kiehne Jr. (The Bland Allisons, Sonya Cotton), Jacob Thomas sets out on his full-length debut, The Dead Will Walk, Dear, to forgive the past while compounding its wrongs. Stirred by the fiction of the American Gothic, The Dead Will Walk, Dear roughly documents the passions, trials and regrets of a Midwestern murder. The National Lights marry traditional American folk stylings - acoustic guitars, banjos, mandolins and lap-steel guitars - with beautifully hushed harmonies, and lyrics that owe as much to Flannery O'Connor as to the 1980's slasher film. Like few of their contemporaries, the National Lights believe that simple music, unabashedly conscious lyrics and restrained vocals remain critical elements of good songwriting. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.