Very powerful song! My father was born on a wind swept Kansas farm in 1930. Dust bowl, the depression and eight other kids to feed. And the rain came down,Thank GOD!
Beautifully done song representing the little man that built an America we enjoy today My Ancestors down to my parents were farming folk A very real song to me The crushing blows that were endured when crops failed and we were left with nothing but scars and broken bones and only hope that next year'll be better
My hero, I gave up the devils buttermilk many years ago. Alcohol is the worst drug on this planet. I lost the first 40 years of my life but it won’t get the next 40,
Saw Steve last night, naturally didn't sing this one, but I would've given all other 23 songs to have just heard this one. My all time favorite! Great lyrics. Americana at it's best!
The pictures are that era, but the song is inspired by Earle's ancestor who homesteaded in Texas in the 1800s. Then it goes through to later generations of the family, though his family did not actually lose the land. It is about the disappearance of small family farms today more than migrant workers. Of course some of those migrant families did lose family homesteads.
Truly one of those songs and videos where it's impossible to imagine the thought process that someone went through to click the thumbs down button. What the hell? Amazing piece of work from a classic story teller and song writer.
My Grandad came west in 1906 and settled down hard on a govt. Grant. Just as he was starting to make it the dust bowl and depression came along. His neighbors packed up but he stayed on and planned it back in. We still have the "ole Homestead" in the family.
My folks left Dirtpoor KY on the Hillbilly Highway. For 34 years Pops was an engineer and hauled rattlers from Detroit to Toledo and around Detroit. Amazingly black lung got him even though he escaped the coal mines. Diesel soot from the locomotives. Mom got a $3000. dollar check from the class action suit.
Good video. The first time I heard Steve Earl was back in early 86 when he put out guitar town. I was in the Air Force then. I was at Andersen AFB on the Island of Guam sandblasting bombs.
Steve Earl showed me that country music is great. I grew up on Rock'n Roll Jimi Eric and all that stuff but during the 1980s I was burned out, country music was way way too strait for this old hippy However as a musician I knew that those good ole boys could really play, they didn't hide mistakes behind a bank of Marshalls with lots of fuzzzz. One Christmas my missus gave me Exit O and Steve Earl and the Dukes dragged me into Country music kickin' and screaming and God bless her for it. I saw him and the Dukes playing in Sydney and they were awesome, I even bought a T-Shirt.
well done on the images....over the years i have collected interesting original photographs, cdv's, ambrotypes, tintypes, albumen prints and daguerreotypes, etc....these images were well thought out and placed in a flowing sequence...again....well done.
Nice work MLW, very well put together. 'Exit 0' (the album this cut is from) was the second CD I ever purchased back in '87 when they first came out, only for the song, 'I Ain't Ever Satisfied,' which my local station was playing. I later got head deep into Springsteen and John Hiatt and rarely pulled it off the shelf, and if I did, it was usually just, 'Satisfied.' I've been revisiting some of my old CDs recently and got to, 'Exit 0.' To borrow a quote from Ebeneezer Scrooge, in, 'A Christmas Carol,' "God forgive me for the time I've wasted."
I'm a big fan of Bruce & John too! Steve Earle is also a bug favorite of Mine. I enjoy all his CD's. I'm glad you enjoyed my little video. I enjoyed making it and was hoping I did it justice.
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the rain, as the spring rains that water the earth.” -- Hosea 6:3
Was homesick for Ky..living in Florida ..Florida was great,but this song made me feel like my old Ky Home..beautiful writing and performance from the one and only Steve Earle!
Im 25 and im a hay farmer and when it rains it fucks a lot of shit up especially when you just cut it and it starts to rain ya it sucks because you can lose eveything you worked so hard for and it sucks
