This Lakota inipi song was recorded live at Zebulon in Brooklyn in November when I opened for Dylan Goodrich's band Animal Forest. I learned the song at Ed Young Man Afraid of His Horse's sweat lodge near Kyle, SD. I later learned the song better at Uncle John Around Him 's sweat lodge, mostly listening to his son Jon Jon, and my friends Travis Brave Bird and Lyle Noisy Hawk Jr. All of the people I mentioned sing the song better than I do, but these songs are really about each of us tapping into the voice with which we cry towards the heavens in joy and despair, and everyone does that equally good.