Growing up in the lower Appalachians, The Pine Hill Haints learned its sound from old men and women playing on porches and in living rooms.
The 19 tracks on this album are a massive flow of music, Some songs were written on the day of the recording, and others 400 years ago.
Recorded partly by Calvin Johnson in Dub Narcotic Studio, and partly by Lynn Bridges (Devendra Banhart, Immortal Lee County Killers) at the Black Owl Trading Co, in Alabama, 'Ghost Dance' is runaway children, train jumpers, the mystery of life and death, and the smashed skull of the once mighty Choctaw Nation: these are the themes that run strong throughout the recordings.
