Dakota Wind

This is the full score to Dakota Wind by Michael Linton as recorded on Refinersfire. 

The author of bestselling ebooks, from “The Gospel According to Tim” to “Dakota Christmas” (revised and expanded as part of his new seasonal volume, “The Christmas Plains”), Joseph Bottum is a widely published essayist and poet, with work in magazines and newspapers from the “Atlantic” to the “Wall Street Journal.” The former literary editor of the “Weekly Standard” and former editor in chief of the journal “First Things,” he holds a Ph.D. in medieval philosophy and has done television commentary for networks from the BBC to EWTN, including appearances on NBC’s Meet the Press and the PBS NewsHour. His books include his latest poetry collection, “The Second Spring.” He lives with his family in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Mike Linton lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and teaches freshman and sophomore level music theory at Middle Tennessee State University. The family broken by opposing loyalties in the Civil War, Linton’s maternal ancestors fled Tennessee to Illinois from where his great-great-grandfather Matthews fought on behalf of the Union. The family then went West, home-steading in Oklahoma and eventually scattering across the high plains of Wyoming, South Dakota, and western Nebraska where his mother was born. “Dakota Wind” is quite literally, a “going home” for him (the photographs on this page are views of the Sioux County Nebraska ranch where his grandfather helped to dig its first well by hand).

Elizabeth Linton is a native of Connecticut and has studied in both music and nursing at Middle Tennessee State University. Most recently she has spent time nursing in East Africa and singing the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute in Siena, Italy. Her performances of “The Silver Swan,” “Cantata No. 2″ and “Songs of Separation” also appear on Refinersfire. She is the daughter of composer Mike Linton and pianist Janet Gustafson Linton.