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| Tweet Topic Started: Monday, 13. April 2015, 20:53 (182 Views) | |
| Stanko | Monday, 13. April 2015, 20:53 Post #1 |
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This album is so great to me really so I've added this new topic just because of that. And yes Hill Farmer's Blues is the one of my favorites... I also agree with yours thoughts about A Place Where We Used to Live... |
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| suprlinda | Wednesday, 15. April 2015, 16:08 Post #2 |
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Yes, Hillfarmer's is one of those special songs for me, too. I especially have liked what happened to it when done live. There are several pretty decent audience-shot videos from the last several tours that really take it to the next level. |
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| Stanko | Wednesday, 15. April 2015, 20:17 Post #3 |
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Yeah, perhaps this one is one of them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Py9SDdYGFrQ Definetly different level of music! grooving... |
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| suprlinda | Wednesday, 15. April 2015, 21:45 Post #4 |
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Yes, that's the first one I found, too! :lol: There are also some clips of Marbletown that are different from the Get Lucky tour to the Privateering tour, even when the song segues from Father and Son into Marbletown in both cases. There was a guy by name of Isaac Shabtay that attended every concert on those tours. He said that during the 2010 tour the outro of Marbletown was different every night! and also different than on the Privateering tour. They were really grooving! |
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| qjamesfloyd | Thursday, 16. April 2015, 15:12 Post #5 |
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Hill Farmer's Blues is a great song, and it really took on a new life when Mark started playing it live, I love the soundcheck version on the Privateering bonus CD too. |
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| Stanko | Saturday, 28. November 2015, 18:42 Post #6 |
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Lyrics issue again :-) "behind my back (Lord/Law/Love) you made a fool of me" What do you think, which of these 3 is correct? I'm not sure and I'm unable to recognize... It seems It goes "Lord" but it's not so clear, is not it? Btw, I like to think it could work in all 3 cases, couldn't it? :lol: |
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| suprlinda | Saturday, 28. November 2015, 20:53 Post #7 |
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Hi, Stanko. The liner notes say that it is "behind my back Lord you made a fool of me." I have seen it on one or more of the lyrics sites that say law, but I have always thought that they were put together by someone listening to the song and entering it into a computer, rather than getting the liner notes and reading what the official lyrics were. One of my favorite Mark songs! :wub: |
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| ponysoldier12 | Sunday, 1. July 2018, 15:15 Post #8 |
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love this song it is fantastically written. means different things to different people? cant imagine what the man went thru with his wife??? i am assuming? i love any song about a farmer. i grew up on an iowa farm and can relate to the "blues" of the life for sure. |
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| Stanko | Sunday, 1. July 2018, 16:47 Post #9 |
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Yes, a fantastic song, one of my favourites definitely. I don't think there should be a big fabula behind it, rather just a blues on an every-day life perspective of a farmer! (but not about a farmer necessarily, it could be about anyone really!) Under the link below you can hear few words about the song from Mark himself. https://youtu.be/jfbVTczudZ8 Edited by Stanko, Tuesday, 3. July 2018, 18:39.
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