My Introduction to Bearfoot's Music

Bearfoot was originally created as a 5-piece bluegrass band out of Alaska (one from Cordova and the Doors and Windows.  It was their fourth album, and first without Tornfeld.  After 8 years with the band, she was stepping back to spend more time at home.  The Californian Odessa Jorgensen joined the band, it a shift was noticed as Bearfoot started stirring folk and americana into their songbook).
others from Anchorage).  Angela Oudean, Jason Norris, Kate Hamree, and Annalisa Tornfeld had come together at one music camp, and would meet Mike Mickelson (whose mother owned another one).  The camps inspired a bluegrass style that they became known for.  The album that introduced me to the band was

There was a mix of songs on Doors and Windows.  Some were more on the traditional side, some were folk.  One was Country cover, and another was a Beatles song.  As Jorgensen became more of their lead singer, she wrote a few songs on her own as well as some with the other members.  Annalisa would contribute on two songs as songwriter (writing the closing number with the other four original members).  There were even songs written by Todd Grebe and Megan McCormick (who perform with Norris and Oudean as the current lineup of Bearfoot).

The song that jumped out the most to me was titled "Heaven".  There's an old adage that "the eyes are the window to the soul", and Jorgensen's lyrics speak of looking into her lover's eyes seeing a blissful state of love and compatibility that she'd always like to be in with him.  In the refrains, we hear about how love invigorates life, and how time can seem to stand still during the moments of intimacy.  That's the ongoing theme, and in the middle verse she describes a blissful time of moments of love in her bed.  Her choice of words was stunning.  She sets a scene of her lover lying on her bed as the morning light gently flows in.  Then she describes making love, both holding tight and being mindful of eachother's comfort.  This is such an idyllic description of sensuality, and it's not a level of songwriting that you often come by.  Some of the song lyrics from Doors and Windows can be a little cryptic.  Then we get these lyrics that are so vivid.

To paraphrase the song, I saw heaven in these lyrics.