At KFOG Marc Cohn said about this song: „.. I guess maybe I could tell you something about that song which is a little bit mysterious if you don´t know what it´s about. … It´s a story about a painter… it´s a man named Frederic Church and I read a story about him and the thing that was compelling about his story to me was, he took sort of a publicly imposed brake, because nobody cared about his art after he had been incredibly popular for a very long time. … He spent the last thirty years of his live devoting his creative input to the building of a house for his family, mostly his children. And he called this house Olana, which means treasure house, house filled with the things that are important to you. And I wrote this song singing in his voice, talking from the grave about remembering his life and what it was, and what was really important to him…”
I think this is really interesting and that that song is one of Marc´s best ones.
At KFOG Marc Cohn said about this song: „.. I guess maybe I could tell you something about that song which is a little bit mysterious if you don´t know what it´s about. … It´s a story about a painter… it´s a man named Frederic Church and I read a story about him and the thing that was compelling about his story to me was, he took sort of a publicly imposed brake, because nobody cared about his art after he had been incredibly popular for a very long time. … He spent the last thirty years of his live devoting his creative input to the building of a house for his family, mostly his children. And he called this house Olana, which means treasure house, house filled with the things that are important to you. And I wrote this song singing in his voice, talking from the grave about remembering his life and what it was, and what was really important to him…”
I think this is really interesting and that that song is one of Marc´s best ones.