Canadian folk-hippie legends The Perth County Conspiracy recorded their final album 'Kanada' (a.k.a. 'Break Out To Berlin') behind the Iron Curtain in East Berlin in February 1975. The album was recorded in several sessions over a three-day period, following the group's appearance at the 'Fifth Annual Festival of Political Song', where many (communist and predominantly state-sponsored) bands from the Eastern bloc and other countries gathered from across the world. With statewide broadcast of the festival providing advertising, the final PCC album reportedly sold upwards of 80,000 copies in the Soviet bloc. Whether or not that figure is true, it certainly stands as one of the band's best efforts, and it was cut with an audiophile-level quality of high fidelity. Since the album has never been reissued on CD, here is what the original AMIGA pressing sounds like.
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LYRICS (Cedric Smith/Milton Acorn):
Oh, it isn't like the old days
But there's a feeling still around
Of a time when independence wasn't being alone
Looking out for one's own
And he still recalls the old ways
When the horses pulled the plow
Now life was hardly simple, but a neighbor lent a hand
And you worked close to the land
(Good country feeling)
Hurray for the farmer
Aching backbone of the country
He's got more things to fix
And less to fix them with than anybody
Hurray for the farmer
Aching backbone of the country
He's got more things to fix
And less to fix them with than anybody
Talk about early rising...
(Yawn...)
16 окт 2024
