| John Anderson – Seminole Wind Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I lived in metro Tampa for about 30 years, did a bluegrass show on WMNF about 13 years. Also big into Florida Folk music. Got to perform on stage with a friend at the Smallwood Store festival on Chokoluskee Island in 1993. Seminole Chief James Billie was the headliner as he's also a singer/songwriter/guitar player. A lot of Florida Folk Singers wrote songs about the mess that developers were making of the "flowered" land. The late Bobby Hicks wrote one called "Big Wind Blowin' off Africa" (gonna blow those condos down). He recorded it and others on a cassette. I wrote one called "Flori-Dirge" which was tracked and performed a few times. Snowbirds would buy condos on land that had been dredged and filled, then gripe when the odor of the filled-in pastures started seeping through - or people in beachfront condos didn't like it when a hurricane hit and they suddenly had 6" of sand in their living room - yet the developers had taken down the mangrove swamps which is what kept the beaches from eroding! The real Florida is beautiful. Also read Carl Hiassen's book "Team Rodent", about the Disney takeover of central Florida. It fits right in with these Florida songs. | |
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