The Gentle Arms of Eden

The Gentle Arms of Eden. In an interview with Mike Devlin, Carter described this song as a gift. He fell asleep and had a dream. He woke up and wrote the dream down. It’s a song about how we got here and how we ought to treat our home. Carter says Fundamentalists come up to him at performances and tell him they’ll pray for him. If you read the words carefully, you’ll see Carter clearly believes in God. Figuring out how we got here is just part of the great curriculum.Dave Carter (August 13, 1952 – July 19, 2002) was an American folk music singer-songwriter who described his style as “post-modern mythic American folk music”. He was one half of the duo Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, who were heralded as the new “voice of modern folk music” in the months before Carter’s unexpected death in July 2002. They were ranked as number one on the year-end list for “Top Artists” on the Folk Music Radio Airplay Chart for 2001 and 2002, and their popularity has endured in the years following Carter’s death. Joan Baez, who went on tour with the duo in 2002, spoke of Carter’s songs in the same terms that she once used to promote a young Bob Dylan.