Black Orchard Songs

1. black money2. ballad of the parted ones3. gibsonton, fla.4. no place for the lonely5. into nothing6. out of time7. the girl with jesus in her eyes8. cry for home9. hark the heart and the arrow10. what do we owe the dark?11. I am carrying a mourning tuneThe pieces that came to form this collection were mostly written on a nylon stringed guitar in a small cabin in northern Michigan. Unsure of their merit, Meisel contacted his old friend and co-producer, Brian Lillie (Country Lines, 2003) for counsel. Impressed, Lillie agreed to co-produce the songs. Meisel recorded demos of the pieces in his home studio in the fall of 2010, and in early 2011 those demos were brought to Big Sky Studios in Ann Arbor where full pieces were assembled from the demos themselves.