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It's a Native American (Lame Deer) inspired song featuring one of the voices of the Dalai Lama's ministers (T.C. Tethong) from the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India. What is it with our never-ending wars, what's with the negative si
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Carl Cape plays acoustic folk that spills wonderfully into alt. folk, rock and the blues. Soulful harmonica and acoustic guitar, thoughtful lyrics, and catchy h
Carl Cape. Artist biography: November 2007, Chevstar Records. Carl Cape writes homespun folk-blues with an acoustic guitar and a velvet case of harmonicas. His sound has echoes of Woody Guthrie, Roger Waters, Neil Young and Damien Rice and, at times, Carl’s soulful style evokes memories of 1920’s blues harmonica player Noah Lewis. Carl Cape’s songs tell stories. His first album ‘Reborn’ draws upon tales from the traveller’s road from the English/Scottish Borders to India. The album includes vocals by a Minister of the Dalai Lama’s governmentin-exile on: ‘Superhighway’. That song, written in a tumbledown cottage in the middle of the Northumberland moors reflects Carl’s philosophical writing. ‘Superhighway’ was inspired by the writings of Native American shaman, Lame Deer: ‘it’s a quick comfortable superhighway, but I know where it leads to’ (Lame Deer, Erodes, 1980, p.18). Carl and the Electrons’ trip takes us from authentic spiritual blues to the new rock n roll of ‘Elvis is not dead!’ Audiences connect with Carl. Perhaps it’s the Indian gurus wandering alongside him, or the screech of owls, the sound of the sea, or the eco-messages of ‘Medicine Stick’- a song about farmers in drought-hit Australia. Maybe it’s the lyrics that trigger your own memories of a walk on a purple heather moor. You can expect a beautiful journey at a Carl Cape gig. His folk-blues is highly recommended.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
#10,521 today Peak #131
#2,361 in subgenre Peak #22
Author
Carl Cape
Rights
Chevstar Records
Uploaded
November 20, 2007
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MP3
MP3 5.7 MB • 128 kbps • 6:13
Story behind the song
One night, the wind howling outaide and the snow falling, I got kindling for the fire and lit it. Started thinking, and picked up the guitar. I wrote the lyrics quickly, then edited them, singing along to the tune. Somehow Baaba Maal inspired me - the Sengalese Kora sound.
Lyrics
Superhighway Superhighway way up in the clouds What does it mean to me? It can give you all that you want, things you’d never believe. Are you ready to think it? Are you ready to drink it? Are you ready to swallow? You won’t taste a thing, you won’t taste a thing. Earth, life, breathe, wither and die, paths to find an answer why, you are it, it is you, the answers come from what you do. Are you ready to think it? Are you ready to drink it? Are you ready to swallow? You won’t taste a thing, you won’t taste a thing. A man with a gun, a man with a pen, what’s the difference between them? Take all the wisdom and all of the gold, which of them means the most? Are you ready to think it? Are you ready to drink it? Are you ready to swallow? You won’t taste a thing, you won’t taste a thing. Superhighway. Superhighway. Carl Stiansen: acoustic guitar, vocals, chanting, harmonica. Ally Lee, slide guitar. Sample: Minister Thetong, member of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India.
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