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Burning Rain
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soft rock
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River Bottom Rock
Wow! It's hard to write about the Brazos Brothers without also talking about the Brazos River. The river begins in New Mexico. Then, in West Texas, we have the Double Mountain Fork, Running Water Fork and, what gave that Brazos coffee its great taste, the Salt Fork. Too bad we can't drink the water anymore. Just as the waters of the river are varied, so are the Brazos Brothers songs. Since we have played music together and individually in various other settings for longer than I care to admit, folk, rock, country and a little jazz are all in there. In 1986, Jack Stephenson, Rocky Randall and Garry Spradlin formed SRS Music with the intent of writing music strictly for sale to other artists. By the time I paddled alongside, they had two or three minnow buckets full of tunes. With the addition of my bass guitar, and the pedal steel in the studio, the performance side of the music began to emerge. After hearing some of our "rough cuts", another brother from way back upstream invited us to his recording studio, Rockhouse Studio, to record a few songs and see how they sounded under better conditions. We recorded two CD's but only released the last one, "Harmony Road". Since the release of the “Harmony Road” CD, drummer Steve Hardin has come aboard to keep the time, add more punch to the bottom and hopefully, keep bringing the whiskey. We invite you also to come aboard and go with us as we drift past the sandbars, willow trees and sunsets of life's river, that flows always toward the deeper pool of water.
Song Info
Charts
#13,274 today Peak #164
#4,388 in subgenre Peak #53
Author
Spradlin, Randall, Stephenson
Rights
SRS Music
Uploaded
January 17, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.9 MB 128 kbps 5:19
Story behind the song
Burning Rain was written as a protest song describing the effects of acid rain and the consequences of not protecting our environment.
Lyrics
All things living got to have the rain To feed the rivers all across this land But now our forest cry out in pain And once green pastures are just barren land In years gone by those tears from the sky Brought health to the forest and wealth to the sea How can this happen tell why do they die All the damage we’ve done I just believe If man is their keeper can this be And are we so blind we don’t see So long ago when skies turned gray Soft cooling mist fell caressing the face Of soft spring flowers blossoming in May Gone from this world now they left not a trace The fireless flame oh that burning rain From clouds all blackened with death and disease Seeded by man yes we are to blame The world we leave our children will be our legacy Will we lose the flowers and her seeds Bring death to the forest and the trees Oh the fireless flame burning rain Oh the fireless flame burning rain
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