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    Nominated by GMA Canada for Folk Album of the Year in 2020, "What I Heard, What I Saw" lends flesh and bone, ache and longing to the outcasts, prophets and would-be followers found in the book of Mark. More than that, the album is a confessional: a candid retelling of Kristen’s own journey stumbling through hard questions towards faith, finding meaning in the grit and dust of roads unknown. Collaborating with award-winning producer/guitarist Murray Pulver (The Bros. Landreth, Steve Bell, Red Moon Road), Kristen offers a folk meditation on these challenging narratives, which have informed deep conviction and creativity among the religious and non-religious alike for generations.

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lyrics

The Leper

Oh all you that cry out
“Unholy, unclean”
You untouchable shadows
You face of disease
All you men breaking bread in the gutters
Praying, “Tomorrow we die”
All you daughters and mothers, cast aside
Oh all you ragged holders-on to life

This ends here, where the wretched meet the road
This is taking my chances and leaving for home
I’m stepping out of the shadows
To deal with the light
To beg a man to give me back my life

Oh all you that drive out
The filthy, the weak
You that shove to the shadows
Every wound you can see
All you keepers of hallowed and holy
Standing guard of the door
Let us in to the glory you hide and hoard
The people need a god we can afford

This ends now, as we’re staring at the dawn
This is highway home, tearing at the walls
We’re coming over the thresholds
And into the light
This is someone given back their life

So now I’m where I belong
With a name and a home inside these city walls
While he’s out in the shadows
A man on the road
A healer I know
What I heard, what I saw

That no god, no man
Would touch my skin before
But he took my bare hand in both of his own
Now he’s outside of the city,
Tossed to the night
It’s like he traded in his rights for mine
So if it’s the same old story
That ends well for some
Tell me, when’s the revolution gonna come?

1.40-45

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from What I Heard, What I Saw, released June 20, 2019
Written by Kristen Mark Westwood
Produced by Murray Pulver and Kristen Mark Westwood
Recorded at Signpost Music and Unity Gain Productions, MB
Engineered by Don Benedictson and Murray Pulver
Additional editing by Roman Clarke
Mixed by Don Benedictson at Unity Gain Productions
Mastered by Peter Letros at Wreckhouse Mastering

Performed by:
Kristen Mark Westwood - vocals, guitar
Julian Bradford - upright bass

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Kristen Mark Westwood Guelph, Ontario

Kristen Mark Westwood is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator and producer based in Guelph, ON.

Photography by Jen Squires, 2019.

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