Blue Castle

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This is my oldest song, written about twenty-seven years ago on my rare Takamine twelve-string guitar... quite a challenge, as this song is fingerpicked from end to end! Here, I play it on a six-string.

It was inspired by George R. R. Martin's fabulous short story "The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr." That story is, in George's own words, "romantic as hell," and left me in a dreamy mood for quite some time.

I intend to film it someday.

The story concerns a man who has been imprisoned upon a distant world for offending evil gods. He's been there for unknown thousands of years. A girl arrives, traveling via gates between worlds, searching for a lost lover...

And he sings of her...