“Our Lady of the Tall Trees” was written by Cahalen Morrison and gave its name to a 2012 album by Morrison and Eli West, a duo whose music ranged from bluegrass into old-time and parlor song.
The song’s title figure is open to reading — she may be a mother, or a presence of the natural world itself, a guardian of the deep forest. The lyric keeps that ambiguity, set against the spare interplay of clawhammer banjo and mandolin.
The song reflects the pair’s reach beyond standard bluegrass.
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