New Song: Keeping the Lights On
A nickel at a time — a song about Central City, ghost town rituals, and finding peace in unlikely places.
Added a new song from the Yellowstone collection: Keeping the Lights On.
This one comes from a real place and a real ritual. Every October, I make the drive up to Central City — a former silver and gold boomtown in the Colorado mountains, now a small gambling enclave with a lot of history and a lot of quiet. I have a regular spot at a bank of nickel slots at Easy Street Casino. The losing is easy. The peace is easier.
The town used to be called the richest square mile on earth. The men who made it that way are long gone. The buildings stayed. The streets stayed. A few neon lights stayed, humming against all that mountain dark.
That rhythm — nickels in, reels spinning, world falling away — is the whole song. It’s not about winning. It’s not really about gambling. It’s about showing up to a place that gave everything it had, and giving a little back in the only way that still makes sense.
The Yellowstone collection is a long one. This is one more piece of it.