{"id":934,"date":"2017-01-13T18:46:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/?p=934"},"modified":"2017-01-13T20:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T20:47:34","slug":"black-tin-barns-the-story-behind-the-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/2017\/01\/13\/black-tin-barns-the-story-behind-the-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Tin Barns &#8211; the story behind the song"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"470\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=1629321584\/album=1411039729\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p>As a child they were all around but as developers moved in they faded away..the last ones behind my grandfather&#8217;s house now being turned into an Eco Museum for Trees!<\/p>\n<p>Musically I was listening to the Louvin Brothers and although I didn&#8217;t hear Gillian Welch and David Rawlings until years later (their first disc was released \u00a0in April 1996) there might have been something in the air \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-936\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/220px-GillianWelch_Revival.jpg?resize=220%2C219&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/220px-GillianWelch_Revival.jpg?w=220&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/220px-GillianWelch_Revival.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-938\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/loub.jpg?resize=218%2C218&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/loub.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/loub.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/loub.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"tralbumData lyricsText\">\n<p>BLACK TIN BARNS<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an old dirt track and a muddy stream<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a wide\u00a0open field that&#8217;s surrounded by trees<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an old tin barn that&#8217;s falling down<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where I rolled in my sweet baby&#8217;s arms<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh country tracks won&#8217;t you take me back<\/p>\n<p>To the farms and the black tin barns<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now all I can do is sit and stare<\/p>\n<p>Across these fields at trees so bare<\/p>\n<p>All around there&#8217;s only\u00a0sticks and stones<\/p>\n<p>Cos&#8217; nothing been planted so nothing grows<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I was young I used to dream<\/p>\n<p>Of you girl in\u00a0these fields of wheat<\/p>\n<p>But now the wind&#8217;s torn everything up<\/p>\n<p>All that\u00a0I am left is this handful of dust<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"credits-label\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\">from <a href=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.bandcamp.com\/album\/black-tin-barns-river-ghosts\">Black Tin Barns &amp; River Ghosts<\/a>, releases February 1, 2017<\/div>\n<div class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"><\/div>\n<p>I also found my first copy of No Depression magazine ( the Whiskeytown cover see below) in 1997 when I back in Oxfordshire&#8230;.with my barns..<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nodepression.com\/archive-cover\/issue-10-july-aug-1997\">nodepression.com\/archive-cover\/issue-10-july-aug-1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-935\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/whiskeytown.jpg?resize=500%2C641&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/whiskeytown.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/whiskeytown.jpg?resize=234%2C300&amp;ssl=1 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child they were all around but as developers moved in they faded away..the last ones behind my grandfather&#8217;s house now being turned into an Eco Museum for Trees! 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