Cricket Blue - Corn King (Live with Chamber Orchestra)

Cricket Blue plays original song "Corn King" live, backed up by a 10-instrument chamber orchestra.

Music and lyrics by Taylor Smith with help from Laura Heaberlin. Orchestral arrangement by Taylor Smith.

Cricket Blue is Laura Heaberlin and Taylor Smith
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THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Violin - Sofia Hirsch
Viola - Laura Markowitz
Cello - John Dunlop
Bass - Kyle Saulnier
Accordion, Timpani, Wineglass - Harrison Hsiang
Trumpet - Chris Rivers
Clarinet - Craig Olzenak
Flute - Hilary Goldblatt

Audio captured by Joe Capps with help from Malena Lomanno
Technical consulting - Paddy Regan
Audio editing and mixing - Taylor Smith
Additional audio editing - Laura Heaberlin

Directed by Joe Rittling
1st AC - Paul McGreevy
Colorists - Joe Rittling and Paul McGreevy

Special thanks to Doug Heaberlin, Josh Mauser, and Alisha Utter

"Corn King" is a retelling of the John Barleycorn myth in which an effigy of John Barleycorn must be ritually burned every year to ensure a bountiful harvest. In this version, two doomed lovers take a roadtrip across the American midwest through the seasons, until the harvest when the narrator must be ritually sacrificed so that his lover can become her highest self.

Full lyrics here (literally too many characters to fit): https://www.cricketbluemusic.com/songs