The Wave and The Civil Wars

The Civil Wars released a new album called Between the Bars recently, which featured a album cover that looked oddly familiar to me. It is The Wave, part of the Paria Canyon Vermilion Cliff Wilderness Area in northern Arizona.

What it is about this place that captures the imagination? For once I won't try to guess but leave you, the reader, with images from my visit to the wave and let you decide. Make sure to listen to the tunes and see if you think they match the place on the cover.

Edward Abbey

I have no clue how I missed this speech by Edward Abbey. For anyone who has visited the Southwest or read one of Abbey's books this is a must listen. He strikes me in the video more like Hunter S. Thompson than I had ever realized before now, great Americans the both of them. Here Abbey talks about one of the subjects he cared most about, life before the Glenn Canyon Dam. The speech is in three parts.