For one tune she switched into a distorted electric guitar. “I used to be in a metal band,” she said. The audience laughed. “It’s true,” she said.

Garrulous tunes are resurrected as introspective reveries: they’ve left behind the din of the square dance for the privacy of the attic.

a Greek chorus
their heads turned down
—the welcoming crew

“Come into animal presence. / No man is so guileless as the serpent.” Denise Levertov - “Come into Animal Presence” (1961)