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Don't Talk about Hard Times

from Martin Gilmore by Martin Gilmore

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    Martin Gilmore's first album. Released in 2009, it features some of Colorado's finest acoustic talent including Eric Thorin on bass, Todd Livingston on Dobro, Rich Zimmerman on Mandolin, Pete Wernick and Aaron Youngberg on banjo, Justin Hoffenberg on Fiddle and Erin Youngberg on Vocals. Produced by Travis Book. Recorded at Notably Fine Audio in Denver, Colorado by Colin Bricker and Mario Casillo. Mastered at Yes Master studios, Nashville.

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I read Timothy Egan's book "The Worst Hard Time" during the downturn in 2008 and came up with the idea for this song.

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Well the wind would blow the fields away in clouds tall as the sun
Sweep across the western plains and settle in the lungs
Of the ones who tried their best to make a living from the land
And the earth on which they hoped to live would end up killing them

Don’t cry about hard times
You ain’t seen no hard times before

So they’d build a little shack of wood a floor that’s made of dust
And the little that they worked to save they’d put in a bank and trust
And through the drought, through storms, those blizzards black as night
They’d assure themselves they will survive come the end of ‘29

So Frankie came and saw the pain the country suffered through
The farmers in Tennessee got electricity and food
The TVA the CCC Security for the old
But none needed more or suffered more than the one’s in the dust bowl

And so he said, and so he sang, and so he told us all
This land is ours and when it’s gone the rest of us will fall
He told their stories, he felt their pain and he said how to survive
And somehow they came through what was the worst of the hard times

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from Martin Gilmore, released July 31, 2010
Martin Gilmore - Guitar and Vox; Justin Hoffenberg - Fiddle; Todd Livingston - Weissenborn; Eric Thorin - Bass; Engineered by Colin Bricker at Notably Fine Audio in Denver, CO. Produced by Travis Book.

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Martin Gilmore Denver, Colorado

Martin Gilmore is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, mandolinist and recording artist from Denver, Colorado. He is an instructor of folk and bluegrass music at the University of Northern Colorado and at Swallow Hill Music Association.

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