On the Road To Spearfish

Billy Talbot is best known as a founding member of Crazy Horse, perhaps the most famous backing band in the world. Throughout his decades touring and recording with Neil Young-and prior to it, in a series of bands-Talbot has always written and played his own music. In the early '00s, he formed the Billy Talbot Band. Around the same time, he met his wife Karin. With her, he found new and profound inspiration and peace in the wide open spaces of the North American prairie. Those feelings only grew as he began helping her to restore a homestead in Spearfish, South Dakota that had been hers for some time. On The Road To Spearfish, his second solo album with the Billy Talbot Band, evokes a journey that is at once of this world and mythic. The film is an intimate portrait of the recording sessions where Talbot translates the strength and beauty of the elemental Great Plains landscape into songs that transcend any specific geography. Rather, they inhabit the realms of the heart and soul. The spirit of what Talbot has helped create with Neil Young and Crazy Horse over many years also flows through the film-on a more personal scale, channeled through Talbot's meditations on the world of Spearfish and beyond.