I am sharing this upload of an old song I made when my old town, which sits in the swampy marshlands, flooded over back in the year 2000.
The song is filled with little references which I found funny or interesting at the time:
– “I walked on up the river where the lady poet died…” – The lady poet I’m talking about was Virginia Woolf who was not a poet but she did drown herself in the river there.
This book talks about virginia woolfe’s relationship to the river and to water and water as a personal metaphor for emotion and inspiration in her writing and diaries. I read it last summer sitting by the selfsame river.
– “the frogs could learn to fly…” This references a film with Tom Cruise that I watched one time with a friend and there was a scene where it rains frogs which for some reason impacted me quite strongly.
– “the ouse river ran off with near all the brewery’s beer…” The brewery is by the river and a lot of the barrels floated away in the flood. This recovered batch became the mythical ouse booze.
– “the rains came down and the floods came up…” This was a church song we used to sing at school accompanied by hand movements. Was it about Noah’s arc or was it the one about the old man building his house upon the sand and on the rock…
– The other references are basic Bob Dylan references like the Lowlands and milk and drownded and knockin’ at the door and stuck down in Memphis with the Mobile blues again… I used to listen to him all the time, really loud.
Anyway, without further ado, please take a little listen if you please 🙏 :
In case of interest, this is the old version. It’s one of the first songs I recorded, 4 years ago, and I was told to please stop drenching my voice in reverb… From then on I’ve tried to keep my voice clean, even though what I really wanted to do was to bury it under thousands of overlapping waves of echo…
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