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by David Shirley "Paint the night snowy white And the day winter rose The black rider will break Silver chains Over a gradual layering of harpsichord arpeggios and swelling electronic keyboards, singer/composer Ed Askew repeats the vivid chorus gently and deliberately, like a painter methodically applying brushstrokes to a canvas, until the image hovers stubbornly in the fading keyboard drone. Like much of Askew's homemade recordings of the past ten years, the song (the opening track of 1986's Little Houses) unfolds with a loveliness, delicacy, and measured restraint rarely heard in contemporary popular music." the cowgirl at the beginning is Annie Oakley.