“Leave it as it is,” declared U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt after a 1903 sojourn at the Grand Canyon. “You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.” ...

It was another death, his father’s, that inspired a song that would shape his future. “Canyon” is a haunting ballad about estrangement between people and within your own soul. “I’m a ...