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The album is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, Laysongs� centerpiece is the three-part �Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth,� which was inspired by C.S. Lewis�sThe Screwtape Letters. The album also features a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a performance of the fourth movement of B�la Bart�k�sSonata for Solo Violin; �God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot� based on Buffy Sainte-Marie�s adaptation of a Leonard Cohen poem; a cover of bluegrass legend Hazel Dickens� �Won�t You Come and Sing for Me;� and an original instrumental loosely modeled after the Prelude from J.S. Bach�s Partita for Solo Violin in E Major