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The debut album from Fiskum is entitled Darkness / Fire / Dancing and is a collection of 14 songs. Featured musicians include SLIM DUNLAP of The Replacements, TINA SCHLIESKE from Tina & the B Sides, PATRIK TANNER from the Farway Men, ANNIE HOLEIN from the Soviettes, HELMI HARRINGTON, JOHN MCKONE and more!

Sample them here, with Fiskum's own commentary.

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TOM WAITS'S BAR AND GRILL

Northeast Minneapolis has dozens of neighborhood taverns where locals gather after work for a beer, for burgers, and maybe a game of billiards or darts. Places where softball teams hang out after the game. I used to frequent these bars often, and I visualize one of them – Tommy’s Bar–as the setting for this song. Its about a man who is torn between his old flame and his new girlfriend.

If we are lucky, we’ve each had at least one night in our lives when we were getting to know our new love, and time and the world magically disappeared. This song is about that night.

Winter Moon is a story about love and death. There is profound beauty in impermanence. I performed Winter Moon for one of Nashville’s most well-known songwriters. He suggested I change it so it would sound as if it were sung by a younger person. He didn’t get it, and I didn’t follow his advice. True love is timeless.

A Fat Boy is a motorcycle in the Harley Davidson soft-tail family. There is magic and the promise of salvation when you get on your motorcycle, pick up your girlfriend, and go riding into the night for the sake of the ride.

A man leaves a bar at closing time. As he steps into the cold November night, he wonders whether his love of long ago ever thinks of him.

This song is about a guy trying to get a date with the woman of his dreams. Like so many of us, he realizes that he needs to ask more than once. Persistence in a righteous cause brings great reward.

EARTH IS NOW YOUR MOTHER

If we make an error when discussing war, it is the error of quantifying everything in numbers – numbers of casualties, numbers of dollars spent, number of weeks, months or years during which fighting has continued. This song challenges that mind set. It is about what happens to real children when the bombs hit the ground. If the Dixie Chicks had this song in their repertoire when they played England a couple of years ago, they could have made their point much more eloquently.

TOUGH TIMES DON'T LAST

On one level, this song is about a former rodeo cowboy trying to find the love that he pushed away. On another level, it is about anybody who has an important goal, something he or she wants to accomplish more than anything else, and who is determined not to quit.

Often we find ourselves able to accomplish things for others that we could not accomplish for ourselves. If someone believes in us and knows we cannot fail, we can accomplish much.

In Tibetan Buddhism there is the notion that things in themselves are empty. Things are neutral. They have no essential characteristics of their own, and whether something is good, bad or otherwise is the result of our own thoughts, our own decision about how the thing or the situation will impact us. And so it is to the character in this song. While the sun shines warmly and brightly for everyone else, when his lover has gone, the sun is just another distant star in the sky.