As a child they were all around but as developers moved in they faded away..the last ones behind my grandfather’s house now being turned into an Eco Museum for Trees!
Musically I was listening to the Louvin Brothers and although I didn’t hear Gillian Welch and David Rawlings until years later (their first disc was released in April 1996) there might have been something in the air 🙂
BLACK TIN BARNS
There’s an old dirt track and a muddy stream
There’s a wide open field that’s surrounded by trees
There’s an old tin barn that’s falling down
That’s where I rolled in my sweet baby’s arms
Oh country tracks won’t you take me back
To the farms and the black tin barns
Now all I can do is sit and stare
Across these fields at trees so bare
All around there’s only sticks and stones
Cos’ nothing been planted so nothing grows
When I was young I used to dream
Of you girl in these fields of wheat
But now the wind’s torn everything up
All that I am left is this handful of dust
I also found my first copy of No Depression magazine ( the Whiskeytown cover see below) in 1997 when I back in Oxfordshire….with my barns..
nodepression.com/archive-cover/issue-10-july-aug-1997
