Multi-award-winning Indigenous artist and guitarist Cary Morin’s latest album, Pocket of Time, was recently released, with many of the songs featuring Ghost Dog. The album’s original tracks are written from the perspectives of “Indigenous characters drawn from everyday life”, some in connection with the Crow Reservation.

While Morin explored a similar narrative approach on his previous album, those characters were inspired by paintings created more than a century ago. He continues to write songs that “transcend a specific era, focusing instead on people, the challenges life presents, and the emotions they carry.”

This approach traces back to Morin’s 1998 Turtle Island stage production, where he first began crafting songs about “characters who exist beyond time.”

On Pocket of Time, Morin also reaches into his own past, drawing inspiration from his childhood in the 1960s and ’70s, which includes “memories of riding horses, roaming the countryside with friends and family, and testing life’s boundaries when they seemed wide open.”

The album reflects a sense of nostalgia many listeners may recognize: a time before cell phones and computers. Morin invites listeners to step into Pocket of Time, “a place not quite forgotten, where memory, music, and meaning intersect.”