are you the trainer coming it’s roll
around BAM
and I see in the sunshine since I don’t
know where but I’ve been stuck in time
g-dragon oh and I hear that lonesome
whistle all doubt you say
where are the young boy
my mama told me so
you always be a good boy don’t you ever
he rattles whistle I hang my
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I bet disease vogue see
the plants are dying cause they’re
probably drinkin whiskey if they’re
smokin big cigars what I do I come here
free me from this prison if that
railroad train I love em boom it on
farther down the line Tom Wilson
last way
and I let that lonesome whistle
thank you I’m Eric Huey also known as
Cletus McCoy of the surreal McCoys this
is a legendary era camp also known as
Roscoe and this is the Roscoe trio Kenny
soul soul brother number one on drums
Keith Christopher on bass within 10
years we’ve seen the music industry
change considerably and we don’t know
where it’s gonna be within the next 10
years somebody who’s witnessed that
firsthand is Eric gamble not only as a
musician but also as a producer so Eric
I’ll let you chat a little bit about
what’s going on with music and where you
think it might be going I just like to
say that when some things seem to be too
good to be true
it’s a good chance that they are too
good to be true
streaming has hurt us so bad it’s it’s
hard to even explain we had tangible
assets and other companies made deals to
give our assets away without asking us
so in this hits everybody studio owners
people that make gear players song
writers publishers artists that do
graphic arts for albums everyone pretty
much decimated if you just think about
streaming and what artists get out of it
it’s a kind of like if someone stole
your car but they took the stuff out of
the backseat and left it on the sidewalk
for you so I just like you to think
about that if you participate in
streaming services because for us
there’s really no upside and we weren’t
consulted at all thank you thank you
thank you Eric so by music please and
support live music that first song was a
whole lot of Folsom that was a bit of a
hit for us on XM serious nobody had ever
thought about combining Johnny Cash at
Led Zeppelin like that and our guitarist
said they’re both at E what about doing
this we checked the Google machine and
nobody had done it and they were really
terrific to us at XM serious outlaw
country and it opened a lot of doors at
South by Southwest in America
festival and picking up on the theme
this next song we’re doing is a song
that Eric and I co-wrote Brooklyn this
summer based on a historical book by a
dr. Jim Green it’s called the devil’s
here in these hills and it’s about the
fight for mining rights in West Virginia
100 years ago and it’s symbolic of what
happens in an industry that changes and
the your entire destiny and your entire
livelihood and identity is wrapped up in
an industry and the ground disappears
below your feet and you’re trying to
figure out how to make it work
in a globalized economy that may may be
leaving you behind so it could also be
not only about the coal industry but
maybe about the music industry or
photography or journalism so this is
called the devil is here in these hills
and I dedicate it to my great
grandfather pop McDonough who was a coal
miner my grandfather was a coal miner my
dad was a coal miner and this goes out
to them
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a great granddaddy came from County cook
a bit to these hills forth on his gaze
went down in acts he came out with blue
the company’s store when he went on the
strikers at the mine yards in I’m a
beep underground
don’t make a sound never live here way
up in these girls work don’t kill you be
want the player mouthing down the cabin
look under your hood built this country
on our her in the horrors wouldn’t work
with a job when he got on his family is
a biggish live devil is here he’s on the
ground
devil is here and it don’t make a sound
devil is either way up in these hills
the work don’t kill you be Anatomy
deep underground put it here and go make
a sound devil is your way up it easy oh
crazy Walmart store sees the world don’t
need our code no more can’t take no
pride in the wage hey there they get
percocets just to get do today come on
are we gonna find now in the new world
order where the noodles down no reason
to say no where to go next
I guess me in the devil where the last
ones left who is here deep underground
the devil is here any don’t sound the
devil is here pray up the knees you if
it work don’t kill you being out of his
will devil is here deep underground the
devil until you’re ready go figure sound
devil is your way up the knees he’ll the
thank you very much TEDx
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