Name: Minnesota Brother
Duration: P00H05M24S
Description: This track was partly written and entirely inspired by the poetic and political musings of Tom Campbell, radical Minnesotan, currently in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is also, it should go without saying, intended not (only) as a mournful lost for a past, waning leftist history, but also as a call for the renewal of radical progressive energies.

Minnesota Brother

from Power to My Friends by The Gated Community

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This track was partly written and entirely inspired by the poetic and political musings of Tom Campbell, radical Minnesotan, currently in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is also, it should go without saying, intended not (only) as a mournful lost for a past, waning leftist history, but also as a call for the renewal of radical progressive energies.

lyrics

Goin' down to Houston, check my load
And this rig keeps wastin' all my time
Sit down and wait for a cup of joe
And I think I'll find another line
But them big wheels keep on turnin'
Drivin' home will never be the same

It's all over, Minnesota brother
We're all scattered to the globe's four corners
And it's all dying, Minnesota brother
The farmer-labor dream was a lie

Wait at the airport, I'll pick you up
If the train is runnin' there on time
Been goin' to bat for a friend at work
And some lines keep runnin' through my mind
"I've got a peaceful easy feeling"
If only I could get that way again

Some kind of plane crash shook this town
With the TV showin' it go down
Straight from the island rolls around
Some big-city men who make some vow
That they're gonna keep things here the same as
They've been for a hundred years or more

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from Power to My Friends, released May 15, 2010
words by Thomas Campbell and Sumanth Gopinath, music by The Gated Community

Katie Harris: lead vocals
Sumanth Gopinath: main backing vocals, electric guitar, piano
Scott Williams: acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Teresa Gowan: fiddle, backing vocals
Cody Johnson: bass, backing vocals
Dav Kemp: drums

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The Gated Community Minneapolis

The Gated Community is a country/bluegrass/Americana band with rock influences based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in Minnesota and has been in existence since early 2006.

Bandmembers: Sumanth Gopinath
Rosie Harris
Beth Hartman
Paul Hatlelid
Cody Johnson
Nate Knutson ... more

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White Squirrel Bar

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White Squirrel Bar

North Saint Paul, MN

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