Small Flames by Dylan Blackthorn

Gratitude
My dearest and most heartfelt thanks to all of the sponsors that
funded this project. Recording and producing an album during
the plague was not easy, but y'all made it much easier - I could
not have done it without the generosity of my family, friends, and
community.

My deepest thanks and blessings go out to each and every one of
you who supported my efforts at this unusual time. Whether it be
through pre-ordering a copy of this album, donating time, $, or
lending your talent and skill to the production of small flames -
blessed be.

I epecially want to thank by name my family & dearest friends
for being so very supportive of this effort: my wife Samantha,
parents Kirk & Su, adoptive gandmother-mentor Sherry Nāmakaola
Mayrent, Dr. $ick for giving so much of his musical soul to this album, & Shoshona King for always being there
for my Sunday Squeezebox Serenade! Much thanks to Ham-jam
founder & inventor Darren Fire-eye, & all the other amazing players
who joined me in the studio: Tom Crail, Michael Rubin, Eldridge
Goins, David Ansel, and Gary Linsdsay.

Thanks to Matt Smith at 6-string Ranch Studio for his expert skill
& practical advice during production.

Artist's Statement
Most of us are confronted daily with fears about what we are
doing with our lives - Where is the meaning? What is the
meaning? What's the point... I hope that with this work, you may
find inspiration and hope, to find that what you do has deeper
meaning than you had thought possible.

We are constantly re-creating this world in our image, in our
imaginations, just as the old story goes. The world we live in was
created, and us, humanity, in spiraling mirror image illusions,
through the generations.

Our confusion comes out of the illusory nature of reality, and
how we comprehend our world. When we realize that our
fundamental preconceptions & perceptions of reality largely
determine our experience of that reality, we can begin to repair
ourselves, and in the bigger picture, the world.

Small flames is dedicated to that subtle spiritual experience of
candlelight that sparks warmth, hearth, home, ritual, creativity,
& new growth from within us all.

Best Wishes,
Dylan McNeill Goldberg Blackthorn

Tracklist

1.	Played by the Numbers	4:39

2.	Candlelight (accordion version)	4:46

3.	Stoked	3:30

4.	Ten of Wands	5:31

5.	Silver Halo Blues	4:48

6.	Rule of Three	3:40

7.	The Reminder Waltz	4:31

8.	Float	4:39

9.	Mystic Balloon Quest Waltz	3:54

10.	Folk Magick	4:29

11.	Bessarabian Traffic Jam	3:24

12.	Gray Memories	5:30

13.	Starry Secrets	8:11

Credits

released April 1, 2021

All songs & tunes written and / or composed by Dylan Blackthorn
Produced by Dylan Blackthorn
Recorded, mixed, & mastered by Matt Smith at 6-String Ranch studio in Austin, Texas.
Dylan Blackthorn - lead vocal, accordion, ukulele
Samantha Blackthorn - flute, tinwhistle, xylophone, backing vocal
Dr. $ick - fiddle, guitar, musical saw, percussion, backing vocal
Tom Crail - Bass, Tuba
Michael Rubin - Encylopediae Harmonicae, backing vocal
Eldridge Goins - Drums, backing vocal
Special guests:
David Ansel - Cimbalom, "Float" & "Bessarabian Traffic Jam"
Gary Lindsey - backing vocal, "Silver Halo Blues"

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