Ghost Ranch from Turnbuckles by Katy Tessman
Creativity is both a gift and a reckoning — a force that demands everything, pulling you into its depths until you’re lost in the storm of your own making. Ghost Ranch is about that tension, about feeling consumed by the weight of being understood as an artist, yet still surrendering to it.
Named for the desert retreat where Georgia O’Keeffe sought solitude and inspiration, this song is a plea for escape, for clarity, for a place where the noise fades and only the art remains. It’s about the struggle to find balance between the fire that fuels creation and the void that sometimes follows.
Tracklist
| 2. | Ghost Ranch | 3:51 |
Lyrics
GHOST RANCH
Suddenly, the dark arrives
Again I can feel it rise
In my mind where it spins
A web of all my sins
It hits me like an avalanche
Take me to Ghost Ranch
Vibrant, daring and bold
I give my heart and soul
To these notes and lines
But somehow I’ve lost my mind
It hits me like an avalanche
Take me to Ghost Ranch
I need to go
Where the desert meets the sky
I don’t know
Is this existence just a lie?
I’m a vessel destroyed
Answering the call of the void
This dreaming out loud
it drowns out the crowd
I’m a crevasse empty
do you understand me?
It hits me like an avalanche
Take me to Ghost Ranch
Credits
Katy Tessman – Vocals and Mandolin
Pete Pederson – Vocals
Louis Tessman Stanoch – Acoustic and Electric Guitars
Michael Koppelman – Bass
Kelley Lima – Drums
Produced by Koppelman/Lemire
Engineered and Mixed by Michael Koppelman
Mastered by Tom Garneau
License
All rights reserved.
Optimistic and approachable singer-songwriter, Katy Tessman has a straight-from-the-heart songwriting style that moves passionately over a diverse emotional and musical terrain. Based in Minneapolis, Katy is also an award-winning children’s book author, named CHANGEMAKER by Minnesota Women’s Press.