Lockdown Music Video "Where The Dirty River Flows"

May 22, 2020

When the corona virus hit, and everyone was in lockdown, I was just starting to play around with shooting and editing music videos. I found out that it is a very time consuming thing, but I then had time to finish one I had started a while before. The song is a folk-jazz thing with some poetic lyrics.

I found some old public domain footage from American public information videos for (I think) Oklahoma. I found that these old movies were quite beautifully shot and had lots of images that I could use, cut together with footage (nowhere near as well done) of me playing. Tom Lambrecht played drums on this. Putting it all together was quite a work, I have so much to learn about this. It's also made me start to see film through new eyes.

Take your psychic airplane
High above the city
Look down on the black veins with their
Clots of steel
Look down on the money man
Thinks that he gets there faster
Poor old commuter man
Stuck behind the wheel

Somewhere Where The Dirty River Flows

Take your psychic airplane
High up above this country
Look down on the rivers
FLowing through the fields
Look down on the farming man
Ploughing endless furrows
Poor old agricultural
Worrying over yields

Somewhere Where The Dirty River Flows

Take your psychic airplane
High up above this planet
Look down on the rivers
FLowing to the seas
Look down on the short love
Given to the poor and needy
Given out like wire
To the down at heel

Somewhere Where The Dirty River Flows
Somewhere Where The Dirty River Flows