Cat Stevens
A solitary traveler narrates a spiritual and physical journey toward an undefined destination, treating isolation as liberation…
spiritual seeking freedom through solitude mortality and the body
Bonnie “Prince” Billy
A quiet, hymn-like meditation built around a wandering figure who walks alone through open landscape while a companion goes…
solitude and companionship pilgrimage/journey spiritual surrender
Judee Sill
Judee Sill turns the American frontier myth—the lone pioneer on the prairie—into an allegory for spiritual pilgrimage. The…
spiritual seeking solitude and isolation temptation and asceticism
Gregory Porter
Gregory Porter narrates a pilgrimage to Harlem that turns into a meditation on cultural inheritance and gentrification—the icons…
cultural memory gentrification and displacement artistic lineage