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| Wade Hampton Miller |
 Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 11:50 pm |
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Lil' Birdie
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Howdy - my name is the same as my screen name: Wade Hampton Miller. I live in the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, in the area in the woods to the north called Chugiak.
I play a number of stringed instruments, including both 5 string banjo and guitar-banjo, and also won the mountain dulcimer championship at the Winfield Festival a few years ago now.
I've joined the forum this evening because I was immensely impressed by the band's performance of "I Hear Them All" on the Prairie Home Companion yesterday. That's a terrific song.
I have some questions:
1. Has the band recorded this song on an album yet? If so, which one?
2. Who wrote it?
and, really the question that brought me here more than any other:
3. What's the lyric in the first verse? I have most of it figured out (I think,) but the last word or two in this snippet has me puzzled:
I hear the crying of the hungry,
In the deserts where they're wandering,
And they're crying out for heaven's own
Benevolence of common (?!?)
Anyone know?
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| krazykarl |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 12:27 am |
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Wade Hampton Miller wrote: Howdy - my name is the same as my screen name: Wade Hampton Miller. I live in the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, in the area in the woods to the north called Chugiak.
I play a number of stringed instruments, including both 5 string banjo and guitar-banjo, and also won the mountain dulcimer championship at the Winfield Festival a few years ago now.
I've joined the forum this evening because I was immensely impressed by the band's performance of "I Hear Them All" on the Prairie Home Companion yesterday. That's a terrific song.
I have some questions:
1. Has the band recorded this song on an album yet? If so, which one?
2. Who wrote it?
and, really the question that brought me here more than any other:
3. What's the lyric in the first verse? I have most of it figured out (I think,) but the last word or two in this snippet has me puzzled:
I hear the crying of the hungry,
In the deserts where they're wandering,
And they're crying out for heaven's own
Benevolence of common (?!?)
Anyone know?
Thanks in advance
1. it is on the new one, yet to be released
2 ?? molly where are you ??
3. i hear
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| Wade Hampton Miller |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 8:55 am |
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Lil' Birdie
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Thanks, Karl!
whm |
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| swampjustice |
| Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 12:30 pm |
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Tearin' it Down
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| I fairly sure that OCMS wrote it. |
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| poorlazarus |
| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 8:46 am |
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Lil' Birdie
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I would agree that OCMS wrote the song, based on the contemporary nature of some of the lyrics, though that is not a full-proof reason.
References to soldiers, deserts, corruption, tyrants, leaders lying, but most especially, "I can hear the flowers a-growing in the rubble of the towers." |
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| mhmaudling |
| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:02 am |
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Raisin' a Ruckus
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| cdyaz1 |
| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:52 am |
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Lil' Birdie
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| It was written by Ketch. I talked to him after the boulder show and he said that he had written it during a very spirtual time in his life. I'm glad he chose to share it with us. |
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| greasy-coat |
| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:46 pm |
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Wade, there's already a discussion in the works about this and they've delved fairly deeply intot he lyrics. Its just a fwe posts down from this one and the titles references the words to "I Hear Them All".
Welcome to the forum!
By the way, try to find the topic before you post that way we can keep like information in the same thread. Its much easier to keep up with. .. (just a suggestion but the mods will probably concur).
Again welcome!
I Hear Them All is a great song. Most impressive in this day and time.
Do you have anyone to pick with up thar in Alaska? |
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| therodge |
| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:09 pm |
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Get'm, Law Dog! Get'm! 
Thanks for helping me enforce the rules around here. With that, I ask thee... Greasy Coat, do you want to be an Admin?
cdyaz1, great to have confirmation that it was Ketch writting that! When I heard it I was for certian it had to be a cover or "alter" of someone else's work. I think the lyrics in that song take Old Crow to a whole new level... Like the most top teir of song writers. I was doubting it at first, but now like I said.. its confirmed. |
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| Bill Teska |
| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:21 pm |
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YES, KETCH WROTE THE SONG ORIGINALLY IN THE WINTER OF 2005. I heard it several times when following them around in Appalachia in March of that year. It was a lot faster (and harder to understand) then. When I first heard it - during a sound check in Winston Salem - I wept, thinking to myself, "Now this generation has presented America with another Woody Guthre!" Ketch told me that it was inspired by Isaiah.
The new version is an improvemnet, from my point of view. David's contribution may be found in the new verses (I don't know this) about the flowers and the rubble, or maybe just in the arrangment, which is slower and more intelligible.
I am pretty sure it will be on the new CD - I'll bet all the songs they sang on PHC (expcept Tell It To Me, which GK requested) are from the new CD. DOES ANYBODY KNOW FOR SURE? Is the lineup a secret until it's released? |
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| BanjoAndy |
| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:30 pm |
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Tearin' it Down
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(Think this was posted elsewhere)
From CDNow.com, track listing for Big Heavy World
1. Down Home Girl
2. Cocaine Habit
3. Minglewood Blues
4. My Good Gal
5. James River Blues
6. New Virginia Creeper
7. Union Maid
8. Let It Alone
9. God's Got It
10. I Hear Them All
11. Don't Ride That Horse
12. Bobcat Tracks |
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| WindandtheRain09 |
| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:06 pm |
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Tearin' it Down
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BanjoAndy wrote: From CDNow.com, track listing for Big Heavy World
It's called Big Iron World |
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