I have not done a single review in awhile, but not many songs have impacted me as much as this one in a long while. Gary Clark Jr. has a new album out called ‘This Land’ and the lead sing, “This Land”, is something that needs to be heard.
The song is about race relations in Trump country and Gary lays it all out with no holding back. The song is powerful, angry and scary all at the same time. It is scary because it is true. It is scary because race relations are getting worse and not better. We are in 2019, over 50 years after the death of Marin Luther King Jr., and still having the same conversations. It is sad.
I see it in the news every day and when people get angry enough, you get great songs. Great protest songs that are brutally honest, trying to shake things up, trying to get people talking, trying to make a difference. That is why I want to highlight this amazing song. Discrimination of any kind is unacceptable and needs to be stopped. This Land is everyone’s land. That is what this nation was built on and no one should be told to go back to their country. This land is Mine, This Land is Yours, This Land is Everyone’s!!
The song opens with some menacing electronica sounds before Gary tears into with his blazing guitar. It is rock, it is blues, it is wonderful. The song itself, is inspired by Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” and Woodie even gets writing credits for the song. The song has all the characteristics a great song needs…a good groove, a hook, an awesome guitar solo (oh that solo is something else) and lyrics that mean something.
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