from the LP Europe ’72, Warner Bros. Records, 1972
With all the crazy flooding happening down in Nashville, care of one Cumberland River, it just felt entirely apropos to post up this track---yes, the song tells the tale of a miner, but what Tennessee is experiencing right now can most assuredly be summed up as the “Cumberland blues”. It’s also fitting that The Dead is the only band I have posted 3 songs of on this blog, because underneath everything else you find in the Honeypot here, I am a Deadhead at heart, for life. Of course, the fucktarted wannabe terrorist in NYC is getting top billing on the news, even though 30 folks have actually died down south already, from the floods alone. Keep those Nashville residents & tornado survivors in the surrounding states amid your thoughts as you go to sleep in a nice dry bed tonight---indeed, your life could be worse.
