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Subject: RE: Vengeful nature/Eco catastrophe songs From: GUEST,HughM Date: 26 Mar 09 - 09:28 AM Now I'm Easy, about drought, and Farewell to the Gold, in which a prospector is swept away in a flood. |
Subject: RE: Vengeful nature/Eco catastrophe songs From: Peter T. Date: 25 Mar 09 - 11:45 AM Backwater Blues by Bessie Smith won a contest in the 1920s after the Mississippi Flood. yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: Vengeful nature/Eco catastrophe songs From: cetmst Date: 25 Mar 09 - 09:46 AM Brief scanning of my index yields several songs about disasters and a few about ecology and some just about weather: Galveston Flood (Wasn't That a Mighty Time/Storm) Johnstown Flood Cyclone at Rycove as sung by the Carter Family Open the Window, Noah Three Score and Ten Connecticut Twister The Blizzard, by Harlan Howard White Squall, by Stan Rogers Bushfire, Eric Bogle If I Knew Then (Last Days of Pompeii) Drought Is Like A Fever Forty Below Coldest Winter in Living Memory Goodbye to a River, Bok/Muir/Trickett Panhandle Wind I've Been in the Storm So Long (Bernice Johnson Reagan) John Cook The Rain Comes Down on Everyone Run Come See Jerusalem The Great Storm Is Over Weather the Storm Waiting For Rain Dust Bowl Refugee, Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Children, Peter Rowan Ready for the Storm Sarah, There's a Storm When He Sets the World on Fire There are many songs about shipwrecks caused by storm Coal mine disaster songs are partly natural and partly man-made There's a thread on the forum - Natural Disasters and Tragedies in Song and many other songs scattered through the Mudcat |
Subject: RE: Vengeful nature/Eco catastrophe songs From: ClaireBear Date: 24 Mar 09 - 02:11 PM Did I forget to paste my link? Sure did. Seminole Wind Sorry! |
Subject: RE: Vengeful nature/Eco catastrophe songs From: SINSULL Date: 24 Mar 09 - 01:40 PM Peter Kagan and the Wind |
Subject: RE: Vengeful nature/Eco catastrophe songs From: ClaireBear Date: 24 Mar 09 - 01:10 PM Gotta include John Anderson's "Seminole Wind." Youtube here -- and lyrics available there, too if you click on "more info." |
Subject: RE: Vengeful nature/Eco catastrophe songs From: SINSULL Date: 24 Mar 09 - 12:55 PM The Unicorn Song????? CELLAR! |
Subject: Vengeful nature/Eco catastrophe songs From: matt milton Date: 23 Mar 09 - 02:01 PM It struck me a lot recently listening to a lot of old blues songs that their subject matter is increasingly relevant again. Songs about flooding in particular, given the recent problems afflicting Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and of course New Orleans over the last couple of years. Listening to Sleepy John Estes the other day, i noticed he had quite a few songs which - whether literally or metaphorically - spoke to me in these days of impending ecological catastrophe (if you're a paranoid, George Monbiot-reading greenie like me). Songs like: Floating Bridge Clean up at Home Working Man Blues Everybody Oughta Make a Change Time is drawing Near All have very powerful no-nonsense lyrics (even if they are a bit raggedy and confused: Sleepy John did like his drink...) Three Feet High and Rising is another obvious one of course. Cool Drink of Water ("i asked for water, she gave me gasoline") has a certain resonance for me these days. I'm starting to think about maybe putting a set of these sort of songs together. I think I draw the line at Dolly Parton's "I'll Oil Wells love You". Any suggestions? |
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