A group of longtime area residents has teamed up to re-record and release a very timely music video for a song called The New Depression Blues, which we present for your amusement below:
Here’s a note from Co-Writer, Musician and video Director Beau Robinson:
Originally written by Carl Larson and Pat Robinson in 1971, The New Depression Blues was rewritten in 1982 following the recession that gripped the country then, when the unemployment rate crested at 9% and the famous billboard went up asking the ‘last person to leave seattle’ to turn out the lights.
Now that the economy is faltering again, “Country Carl,” who grew up in the Standring Lane area of Burien, and Pat and Beau, who lived in White Center, decided to resurrect The New Depression Blues and shoot a video to accompany it.
Shot in High Definition video in the actual Maple Valley trailer park that “Country Carl” lives in today, the trio figured it was an appropriate set to exemplify the state of mind of the people of this nation.
The song includes a plea to President Obama, along with a promise to vote for him again if he does well.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
Here are the lyrics if you feel like singin’ along:
My jeans are wearin thin
My pockets wearin through
I aint had a paycheck
Since they’ve closed the factory tooI got the new..I got the New Depression Blues
And things aint been this bad here since 1932The unemployment office,
they pay my salary
but when my checks stopped coming
You know I just can’t live for free
I got the new..I got the New Depression Blues
and things aint been this bad here.since 1932(Instr.)
Now they bailed out the big banks
And motor city too
They foreclosed on my house
and my trailer rent is overdue
I don’t know how they figure
That a man’s supposed to live
When they’ve taken just bout everything
He could ever give
I got the new.I got the new depression blues
and things aint been this bad heresince 1932So lets ask President Obama
have some mercy on us too
get this country back in shape
we’ll vote you back in Oh One TwoI got the new..I got the new depression blues
And things aint been this bad here since 1932.Copyright © 2009 Robinson, Larson, Robinson
More info at the “Nickel Records” website.
Hi out there, I'm Country Carl in the video and I thought I would tie on in to the B town
Blog. I just got back from Nickelsville in Skyway and tents are near capacity. If you
can help with food contact the Bryn Mawr United Methodist Church 206-772-0880. You can
reach me CountryCarl@live.com or more info at CountryCarl.Net. Bless your heart!
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The Joint Economic Committee and the Key Power Brokers of Congress will be the focus for targeted activists seeking additional benefit packages. Make your voices heard before YOUR HOMELESS and your computer CONNECTION has gone dead.
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