It sounds to me like a lesson in history , as does a few of their songs ( James River Blues, Virginia Creeper). They are flat out GREAT song writers. In a way , Old Crow has a way of taking all of the good and all of the bad , and making a GREAT.
I hear them saying thank-you to all of history good and bad. We learn from all lessons our lives and others lives through-out history. They are teachers themselves.
This song spurred me on to look up the Paiute Wovoka, who's story woke up something in me that I feel now( I live in the Sierra Nevadas myself), an interconnectedness with these people, a warm and touching feeling, sad yes , but wonderful just the same. We are all ONE. Wovoka in his dream , saw all past Paiutes being resurrected to return to their land that had been taken from them, thats beautiful. Although discounted through history, and lost for many years, his story might just be true, in that the melding of man-kinds religions(Wovoka was raised by both Paiute and American/Christian families), is the key to our survival. Old Crow says it here, we all sit together at the same table, when God calls our name.
Old Crow is able to connect with history unlike a lot of other "old-timey" kind of bands. They have the Oneness covered here , for sure.
It sounds to me like a lesson in history , as does a few of their songs ( James River Blues, Virginia Creeper). They are flat out GREAT song writers. In a way , Old Crow has a way of taking all of the good and all of the bad , and making a GREAT.
Old Crow is able to connect with history unlike a lot of other "old-timey" kind of bands. They have the Oneness covered here , for sure.