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This tall and lanky, Cherokee and French-Canadian balladeer is a wonderful musician and singer. Michael Bucher's accoustic guitar reminds me of Crosby Stills Nash and Young, his minor keys take me right back to a House in New Orleans, his verses are rich and vivid like those of Gordon Lightfoot. Yet Michael brings something totally new, totally Native, and totally moving. Throughout his album, his partners Peter Phippen bring a wailing bass, Jason Introwitz a reverberating Native American drum and Sarah Maurer blesses the music with her engaging vocals.I loved this entire album. I saw Michael Bucher perform at the American Indian Society Inaugural Ball for President Barack Obama and his Orenda, the Iroquois word for Power, completely enveloped me. Just listening to his recording gives me goosebumps.Michael Bucher's music delights my ear and stimulates my mind. His feelings go right to my heart. Song after song he laments the Red Road that has been torn asunder at Wounded Knee, the Trail of Tears, and at the Shoshone Territory. But this album is not another "Fast Car;" that brings you down but doen't bring you out. There is more than grief. There is anger, there is frustration, and there is courage. We can live like invisible victims in a White Man's World or we can choose to go back to the old songs, language, and dances and dare to believe in something higher, something beautiful, something connected.His album straddles both the world of the past and the present. Michael's rich playing of guitar, flute, and vibrant chants also show he is equally at home in the worlds of European angst and Native power. Bucher begins with "Don't Forget About Me," which won the best political song of the year award from the Native Music Association in 2008. In a pounding, pensive rhythm, he asks us to reflect, "If they have no honor, they have no shame." "Dirty Water" is a lament of how little has changed with the desecration of Indian graves. "Eagle Song" weaves a Cherokee chant laden with gratitude and humility and the frustraton that identity is measured in drops of blood. In "Seven" he puts away all irony and fire, and celebrates the Seven Mysteries of Cherokee life. The album closes with "Your Not Alone," a prayer for sweet forgiveness and protection for the struggle, the fears, the abuse, the addictions. "Your Not Alone" is a total surrender, a letting go of the sorrows and the darkness. It is a celebration of the respect and dignity of the Native Spirit and anyone who has suffered. Aho!If you can't get his albums here, try his website, [...]Enjoy and let the thunder roll. The Grandfathers are surely listening.Skennen'kowa, Walk in PeaceWalking Music