[Cover photo credit to Sandlin Gaither]

Sounding Arrow is the indie solo project of veteran recording artist and touring musician Scott Kinnebrew (Truth and Salvage Co) and the project has released a new single and video for “Lucky Shaman.” It’s the latest from the singer, songwriter and guitarist’s second album, Skyman, out April 10, 2026, via Blackbird Record Label/Indie AM Gold. 

The track’s lyrics were inspired by the time that Kinnebrew spent living for four months in the Ecuadorian Amazon and his experience at a plant medicine ceremony (ayahuasca) there.

Kinnebrew says about the track:

The original subject of the tune was my friend and mentor Don Cesareo of the Seikopai Peoples of Amazonian Ecuador/Peru. I was fortunate to be able to study abroad my junior year of college. And after meeting students who invited me to join them on a trip to the jungle, I found myself living with Don Cesareo and his wife Doña Juaquina for almost four months in the Ecuadorian Amazon. This was 1994. Don Cesaereo was old then, in his 70’s, but stronger than an ox. He was a taita (shaman), but you’d never know it because he was always cracking jokes and laughing at the sound of his farts.

I guess a more appropriate title would have been “Silly Shaman” but it really didn’t have the same ring as “lucky.” I went back in 2018 to pay him and his family a visit. He was 102 years old. But he remembered me. The entire time I lived with him, my name was Gringo, but I discovered on my return I actually had been given a nickname Ñase Køwu- “Beak Of The Toucan”.

The Skyman album was co-produced with Kinnebrew by Gary Jules (“Mad World” from the Donnie Darko soundtrack) and mixed by Bill Reynolds (Band of Horses, The Avett Brothers’ Emotionalism).