The song Benediction: Edward Abbey is performed by Tom Russell in the album named Hotwalker: Charles Bukowski & A Ballad for Gone in the year 2005 .
"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets' towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you beyond the next turning of the canyon walls."
Tom Russell - Hotwalker: Charles Bukowski & A Ballad for Gone
- Pilgrim Land
- Old America
- Hotwalker
- Border Lights
- Beat Folk
- Van Ronk
- Bakersfield
- Grapevine
- Woodrow
- Benediction: Edward Abbey
- Honky Jazz
- Swap Meet Jesus
- Bukowski #1
- Harry Partch, Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce
- Bukowski #2 "On the Hustle"
- Bukowski #3
- Requiem
- Coda: Little Jack Horton
- America the Beautiful