"Look out, Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river"
Just an agreement in G major and the first verse comes. As the current of a river, causing a small landslide that the banks will become a landslide. As the projectile that is about to see and can not stop. starts like that, and you understand immediately how it will end: m ale.
Bell'intuito, storyteller with his nasal voice is telling you it is not clear that the boat to deliver mail, the dyeing clothes or fresh bread.
" I think you'd better call John 'cause it do not look like they're here to deliver "
And apart from a guitar riff. A simple chorus that seems to come from ; mazurchetta some of the parties in the fields. Powderfinger is a simple piece of voice and guitar is so beautiful : verse and riff, and verse riff, and bridge to the solo. ; Young is Canadian and in his music, there are meadows, lakes, moors and meadows, and perhaps that is why we really like mice. down is natural, flowing like a river. It 's a story that will end badly but in the meantime it makes you feel good, there is a deep sense of serenity in this country and western classic story of a young man who dies.
"Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains
Big John's been drinking since the river Took Emmy-Lou "
Big John's been drinking since the river Took Emmy-Lou "
"And I just Turned twenty-two, I was wonderin 'what to do
They Got And the closer, the more Those feelings Grew."
"when the first shot hit the docks I saw it comin '
Raised my rifle to my eye, never stopped to wonder why.
Then I saw black and my face splashed in the sky .
He tells m to died, said to be dead, a precise description of every detail like a scene in slow motion, a long sequence shot where he raises the gun, the camera follows the viewfinder up to the boat on the river, the boat shoot the camera back with the bullet, and precedes it back to him sees him coming and understand ...
"Shelter me from the powder and the finger"
asked for mercy for all he has done and especially for what they could not do. C ome an epitaph engraved on the wooden edge of a knife, a stone that probably will never have.
"Think of me as one you'd never figured Would fade away so young "
The riff is time trunk and it is no coincidence. The song ends the mprovvisa. Like this
Powderfinger is a tragic story, one that the storyteller border like tell. And ' an epic piece, the guitar spends all his time on the four agreements , and a maximum of five bass, drums and rhythm guitar accompaniment are right for them. The riff is one of the simplest of all the history of rock, I know I almost do, and the excitement is all built into the text. In a few sentences flow a lifetime, a frontier world that no longer exists, stop at the exact in which they are going.
When Neil Young wrote in '75 was a young Canadian singer with long hair that looked like the sticker dell'hippy back with the guitar stuck behind Dyane and two horses in the early '80s (and in fact he, too, the adhesive, now belonged to a world that it was ending). She wrote for the next album of Lynyrd Skynyrd and sent to his friend Ronnie Van Zandt in September. And Ronnie wanted to do his: Ronnie not recorded because it never crashed plane a month later, in October of 1975 quell'ormai away.
bad for Ronnie, because Powderfinger was a masterpiece. In fact go down in history two years later when Neil will put in a hard era - Rust Never Sleep -, tour will start in with Crazy Horse's and will make an immortal classic. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMvjfBdeiKw&NR=1