Skye Steele has spent the last decade fiddling his way around the world with artists ranging from Vanessa Carlton, Jolie Holland, Deer Tick, Jean Rohe, and Willie Nelson to Anthony Braxton and Butch Morris to Joey Arias and Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, not to mention with the Maracatu drummers of Brazil and gypsies in Istanbul. Skye's new album of songs, Up From The Bitterroot, was released in January , and has been praised for its "Deep-hearted outpouring" by Yvynyl.com and "evocative vision" by KDHX.org I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing. -T.S. Eliot