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Rust Belt City

from Old Fashioned by John Statz

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    Comes in a digi-wallet package with a glass-pressed disc. Printed and pressed at Sooper Dooper in Madison, WI, with original artwork by Jeremiah Nelson.

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Written for the Rust Belt, specifically Pittsburgh and Cleveland, in February of 2011.

lyrics

Heavy smog hung over east,
where three rivers came to meet,
United Steel could not compete.
Now its a sad rust belt city,
Pittsburgh lost to 'cross the sea.

On the banks of Lake Erie,
where the river's flames burned free,
all the people they did flee.
Another sad rust belt city,
Cleveland burned and so did we.

Hark back the glory days,
when steel mills paid a living wage.
But now the nation only sees,
between the sea and shining sea,
a trail of sad rust belt cities.

Down the trail, down the stream,
will our cities still shimmer dreams?
Or will they dry up from underneath?
Like Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati,
another sad rust belt city,
another sad rust belt city

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from Old Fashioned, released January 24, 2012
John Statz - vocals, acoustic guitar
Jeremiah Nelson - acoustic guitar (amplified)

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John Statz Denver, Colorado

One of the more prolific thirty-something songwriters working in the Folk/Americana genre today, John Statz has released nine studio albums and performed all over North America and Europe over the course of his fourteen-year career. The Boston Globe has called John’s music "electric, urgent folk; aching, sweet country-rock" ... more

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