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Beat Down by the Mississippi Blues
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Dedicated to Katrina victims
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Duo doing things we think of and things we want to do.. when we want to do them . . .
That's Us . . . Krill and Banks Conspiring to make music .. . mostly . . as it turns out . . . for ourselves. Eighty plus odd years of foolin’ around with music and still not rich. AND THAT's one of the reasons we decided to quit giving away everything that we conjure out of thin air. AFTER ALL.... We're just two guys making up music cause we want to, There's still be several FreeBees from time to time. Like a Bluelight Special or Black Friday or something. He's Larry Banks and I'm John Krill, aka the Krill Banks Conspiracy. We have no intended audience, evidenced by the undiagnosed “style” of tunes presented here. But some have said... "this is really good stuff.... weird... strange sometimes... even... urgh ... thought provoking". Banks is the Bass, keys and emerging as a vox specialist, the Mix Meister and odd noises. Krill picks at acoustic and electric guitar while doing the most of the singin’AND "baby-boomer beat-nik" vox cause he’s the only one who knows the very strange words. Songs and Poetry over music range from Rockabilly Barroom sing-a-long to a Katrina saga , ditties about stupidity, old age and did I mention... politics .... oh yeah I did say.... stupidity ? I think its worth ever bit as much as LAFY TAFY, Lady Lumps or Stripper Love.... the "subjects" of MOST modern music. You can still listen to everything for free and post a howdy. Luck to us, John 1/2 of KBC XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Song Info
Genre
Rock Southern Rock
Charts
#697 in subgenre Peak #15
Charts
Peak #466
Author
John Krill music/lyrics L Banks / mix
Rights
KBC 2005
Uploaded
September 13, 2005
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.7 MB 128 kbps 4:04
Story behind the song
Song created between Katrina and Rita Hello We’re two Ft Wayne independent baby-boomer era musicians who wish to raise funds for the Red Cross to help people caught in the Katrina devastation. My name is John Krill and my partner is Larry Banks. We joined together to write and produce music for mostly our own enjoyment and began sharing the results over the Internet nearly a year ago. We’d already done a tune in homage to House of the Risin Sun, kind of a kick in the pants to modern music, and then the disaster hit. I wanted to write about it…someway and rework the “House” homage at the same time. But as the days went by, glued to the news of down south, I found I either had too much, or vastly too little to say. Talk about your shock and awe! The song will certainly be interpreted many different ways.
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BeatDown ( by the Mississippi Blues ) J D Krill KBC © 2005 Once there were homes in the risin sun…. round the Gulf and New Orleans Where one day the lives of a million souls crashed down in Katrina’s siege That old wolf had hollered many, many times before …so most stayed to ride out the storm Most held their family close against this Hurricanes winds, then the Levees were no more The water had always came and went away…. in all the storms of remembered past But this time the flood did not recede ….for many this storm would be their last Katrinas wind laid waste so many miles taking every thing along this story won’t soon fade away …. Cause too many things just went so wrong too many things just went so wrong The truth is the lives of many poor souls have been given to nature’s whim while figures high with slanted eye ….will blast the poor for their greed and sin You know the kind with half a mind…. they keep behind their back Already blame the weak and lame… to prove their fame… with their cheap attack Let me say…… Some were owners some just loners ..most like me and you Reduced to hangin on to life itself … survivin' a beat down by the Mississippi Blues beaten down by the Mississippi Blues No food, no water, no place but up to go… some crawled up through the attic door with no way out, still the water rose …entombed now above the second floor The exodus mind set came much too late…only hind site blame will be seen But that won’t bring back the family lives… in the homes down in New Orleans Let me say…… Some were owners some just loners ..most like me and you Some reduced to hangin on to life itself … to survive a beatdown by the Mississippi Blues beaten down by the Mississippi Blues
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