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Where contemporary singer/songwriter Andrew McKnight's first two albums focused largely on the stories of rural characters and their relationship to the land, his third effort turns his considerable vision towards the landscape of the heart and soul. Among this collection of stories, reflections and letters can be found some of his most stunning songwriting gems; imagining the "Diary" of Thomas Jefferson and his longtime slave mistress Sally Hemings (a duet with Mary Byrd Brown), the humorous and bluesy ode to Hoagy Carmichael ("Bad News"), the anti-mountaintop mining ballad "Company Town", the haunting diary of a Virginia farm boy on "The Road to Appomattox", and a provocative hard-edged collaboration with renowned urban folk poet Chris Chandler on "Jesus and the Nighttime Train".