Canadian folk artist Kate Fenner’s new album, Dead Reckoning, reflects a pair of ideas, both expressed in the album’s title. Fenner explains, “The term ‘dead reckoning,’ apart from it signifying in this case just what it sounds like, is a navigational strategy to recalculate your position by estimating the direction, the drift, and the distance you’ve traveled.” She goes on, “When my friend Mike was dying in December of 2019, I came across an Amy Hempel poem about the failure of language when faced with things like death— ” At the end, I wanted to comfort him. But what I said was, Sing to it. The Arab proverb: When danger approaches, sing to it. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kate Fenner (@katefennermusic) Fenner shares, “I’m left with love as the only defense—loving people...