Cristina Vane | 'Wishing Bone Blues' | Western AF

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Cristina Vane, master of blues, fan of the Italy soccer team and a hellova songwriter. The more I play this song over and over again, the more I am sucked into the magic.

Rolling Country wrote: “Cristina Vane evokes Bonnie Raitt and early PJ Harvey with “Badlands,” from the newly released album Nowhere Sounds Lovely. Vane’s sizzling slide guitar gets a starring role along with her hypnotic melody, reinforced in lines like “People gather like dead birds.” Great stuff there RS.

In her bio on her website, after living abroad for so long, Cristina still feels like an outside in the U.S. I relate that a lot since I moved back to the states when I was 12. Still feel that culture shock constantly.
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Sound Mixer: Curtis Harnish
Executive Producer: Johnny Callahan
Special thanks: Coleman Williams, my brother and amigo
Producers: Brian Harrington & Mike Vanata ( Square State Film )

All rights reserved 2021 © Square State Film

[secondbase]

Last year I gifted a woman from a neighborhood page some vegetable seeds during the pandemic. That woman was Cristina Vane. Hope your garden turned out alright, neighbor. Keep up the good work! 🔥

[icescrew]

Drivin thru the desert at night, big ole crazy moon.. This one, cranked up.

[MrCowboy]

I normally pass right over videos of the millions of singers out there but this one pulled me in. She has it.

[jeremygross]

I feel like her technique is so clean it makes me feel like I can do it.

[codyallen]

The neighbor yelling at the end only made this song feel more like home. Couldn't be better!

[lyndseyfischer]

There was a time in my life when I thought there was no new "true musicians" left....anyone that had real talent, that was lucky enough to be making music, were so hard to find, as if it were purposely hidden!! So finding 🗝🎶🎼🎵became about as common as finding a rare, precious gemstone 💎!! But as time past (approx. a decade)& technology progressed, i.e internet - YouTube, etc. Music is everywhere there is so much of it I could spend the rest of my life finding something or someone new everyday & for that I am forever Grateful....Dead💙❤💙❤💙

[welcomewestband]

this one stands out from the crowd. Very well done Christina.

[thecowboypreacher]

Yo this is the best blues ive heard in years. She is amazing

[lapidarydave]

Christina is such a bad to the bone musician it’s a pleasure to call her a friend :)

[sawekziokowski]

The first time I heard her here, i became an instant admirer. Cheers from Poland.

[cedarriver]

So good to hear some classic blues song like this.
Chords and lyrics below folks

Open D tuning, no Capo

Intro D F G / D F G
Verses D / F G D / D / F G D
Chorus A G F D / A G F D / F G D / F G D / F G F G / F G D
Interlude D F G / D F G / D F G D

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
I got a wishing bone
I got friends in all the wrong places
Seven months come and gone
Nothing to show, but empty spaces

[Chorus]
I left my wishes for dead
Smoked them clean out of my head
And I settle for dreamless sleep instead
And I'm wading through pools of regret
I've seen gold up on that mountain and drank silver from that fountain
And I'm out here, wishing once again

[Interlude]

[Verse 2]
Green in the summer sun
Set on me illuminated
Should have left it alone
Now I walked the world with all of these hazes

[Chorus]
I left my wishes for dead
Smoked them clean out of my head
And I settle for dreamless sleep instead
And I'm wading through pools of regret
I've seen gold up on that mountain and drank silver from that fountain
And I'm out here and I'm wishing

[Chorus]
I left my wishes for dead
Smoked them clean out of my head
And I settle for dreamless sleep instead
And I'm wading through pools of regret
I've seen gold up on that mountain and drank silver from that fountain
And I'm out here and I'm wishing once again

[asouthernlad]

This soul has one hell of a future. I wish her the best. She definitely has some rasp.

[patrickb]

This is something else man. Very modern bluesy sound, alternative. Talented and stunning. Like if fucking Radiohead made a blues song with a female lead. Love it.

[filthysock]

If the world ever comes crashing down, washing over me... this is the way to go. Drinking and listening to this.

[brianwetzel]

Early 70's Bonnie Raitt, sounds great

[axonometri]

Wow there is nothing to dislike about that

[bwiked]

So happy you featured Cristina Vane!! <3

[icescrew]

So I waited a bit. Came back to this vid. Started to watch, had to stop. And write. Sometimes up here in the Rockies, ill ride into a meadows of mountain flowers, maybe a snowy peak in the background. Its so beautiful, that sometimes I feel that if I look to long, it will be the end. I'd have seen the most beautiful thing in existence. After that, no reason to seek beauty, anymore. This young ladies performance of these songs is like those mountain meadows. I saw Emmylou Harris at one of her first concerts on the road. That was the first time I felt overwhelmed by emotion from a musical performance, I was stunned, left speechless by the experience. This is the second time. So much can be wrong in this world. One song can set it right. I'm a grateful man.

[TimVKFlyn]

DAMN this is so good ! thanks from France

[fieldagentisintheforest]

Love new artists who create art with loads of style and atmosphere, not the standard Nashville music structure written by people who just want to make it in the music business... this song and performance is stunningly good,