Country music + environmentalism = my heart is full

John Anderson, "Seminole Wind"

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Seminoles?

Notice that the song was made in 1992. A few months before the famous Rio Earth Summit took place, and surely before all the recent mainstream green hype. So I guess that it wasn't a matter of trend, like eco-oriented commercial music of today.

Whether you consider the sight of Indians dancing around a cowboy hypocritical or symbolical, still, the point of the song is fair. In my humble opinion is that the sadness for the loss of our natural environment is equal among all the Earthlings.

And the fiddle is wrist-slitting.

Primetite da je pesma napravljena 1992. Nekoliko meseci pre čuvene konferencije u Riu, a svakako pre nego što je "zelena svest" postala opšti trend.

Ne znam da li smatrate prizor Indijanaca koji plešu oko kauboja licemernim ili simboličnim, ali poenta pesme je na mestu. Moje skromno mišljejne je da tuga za gubitkom našeg prirodnog okruženja izaziva jednak osećaj tuge u grudima svih Zemljana.

A violina je za iseći vene.