Diane Cluck — whose Boneset LP was a favorite last year — is among the perfect group of artists to pay homage to folk great Karen Dalton this month. Not only are Patty Griffin, Isobel Campbell, Josephine Foster and others offering a nod to their influence, though: they’re giving a voice to Dalton’s unsung words, whose own LPs consisted of cover songs in her lifetime. The new set, Remembering Mountains, features unearthed lyrics lent by fellow folk legend and Dalton friend Peter Walker to living songwriters providing new original music. Cluck’s sparse take on “This Is Our Love” is a standout, complete with a prescient moment aptly fitting of this project, the poignant line: “A choir of angels with no song / A winding road, steep and long.” Hear it above.
