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Kurt Matthew...Mostly Bob Dylan Covers
Welcome!!! I do mostly Bob Dylan covers in my home studio all for the fun of it, I hope you find my style enjoyable, I welcome your emails. Kurt Matthew
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Rock • Cover Songs
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#23,299 today Peak #172
#2,235 in subgenre Peak #13
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May 02, 2006
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MP3 2.3 MB • 128 kbps • 1:42
Story behind the song
On a Monday afternoon, during the spring of May 4th 1970, students began to congregate in an open area on the Kent State University campus. They gathered by a building that was burnt down over the weekend. In front of the wreckage stood members of the Ohio National Guard. While the ROTC building had burned, the City of Kent endured protests throughout the weekend by the university students. The provocation was the recent anouncement by President Richard Nixon that U.S. forces would enter Cambodia. The Vietnam War had already created an uneasy atmosphere on the homefront and the recent news appeared to take things to a level that neither side wanted to face. Although the Governor had stated that the scheduled afternoon protest was not to occur at Kent State, the crowd gained in numbers. The time came when rocks and bricks were soon being thrown towards the ROTC building and the guardsmen themselves. Being hurled in the opposite direction was tear gas. In just a short time, the rifles were focused on the crowd and then began the movement of the crowd back and around a classroom building. The guardsmen followed. And then, in just a matter of seconds, shots rung out. Four students lay dead and nine wounded.
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