On his new record, “World of Stone”, Kidwell explores family, heritage, and a mourning for the old ways long forgotten. True accounts of home-places destroyed, folk tales of mountain miners and talking possums, and ballads from his own life help paint an imperfect but charming picture of this “World of Stone” and the characters that inhabit it.

Tracklist:

1. Pap’s Banjo (2:22)
2. Ballad of Esther May (This House Ain’t for Sale) (4:52)
3. Good Lovin’ Woman (3:12)
4. Up on Burley (3:24)
5. Doves on a Wire (5:03)
6. Trapline (1:22)
7. O’Possum O’Possum (4:38)
8. Mountain Man (3:10)
9. Barren River (3:01)
10. A Mule Named Blue (and His Talkin’ Blues) (1:46)
11. So Why Don’t You Go On and Use Up What’s Left of Me, Girl (4:21)
12. Highway Hymn (4:26)
13. Gentle on My Mind (4:56)
14. Go Tell Aunt Rhody (3:19)
15. Pappy Don’t Listen to the Radio (4:56)

“The now wooded, or rewooded, slopes and hollows hereabouts are strewn with abandoned homesteads, the remains of another kind of world. Most of them by now have no buildings left. Everything about them that would rot has rotted. What you find now in those places when you come upon them are the things that were built of stone: foundations, cellars, chimneys, wells. Sometimes the wells are deep, dug to the bedrock and beyond, and walled with rock laid up without mortar. Virtually every rock in a structure like that, if it is built right, is a keystone; it can’t move in or out. Those walls, laid underground where there is no freezing and thawing, will last, I guess, almost forever.”

– Wendell Berry