Jeffery Straker - More than Two by Fours and Timber (live)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2024
- Words & Music: Jeffery Straker
Piano/lead vocal: Jeffery Straker
Video: Colin Hubick at EverRising Media
Audio: Walt Jeworski @ Blue Door Recoring, Regina SK
From Jeffery's forthcoming June 2024 full-length album
I’m a musical child of the Canadian prairies having been brought up on a grain farm helping with seeding and harvest, while also learning to play the piano. Part of my surroundings growing up were the beautiful ‘prairie skyscrapers’ - grain elevators - at every small town. Once numbering more than 3000 there are less than 200 left standing in Saskatchewan. Their disappearance reflects a change in rural living due to modernizing farm practices and urbanization. Those that remain often cause passers-by to slow down the car, stop for a photo and pause to reflect. This song tells a story of a grain elevator on its last day before being bulldozed and how the town around it has also been in decline for some time.
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Beautiful...
The last of the Prairie sentinels. Hopefully your songs can etch them in our hearts. As a student pilot in the 80’s, we were told that if you get off course find and elevator to get your bearings. Not sure what you would do now.
Beautiful 'love song' to a falling little bit of small town history Jeff. Brings a tear to my eye every time, (from the graindust, yeah, graindust that's it . . .)
of course the graindust! ❤️