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Rob Morsberger - The Wild Wind

from The (Greater) Croton Songbook by The (Greater) Croton Songbook

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From the album Ghosts Before Breakfast. Photo of Rob provided by artist. More Rob here: www.robmorsberger.com

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The Wild Wind is a history, in six minutes, of my home town, Croton on Hudson. 'Croton' is derived from the name of a Kitchiwank chieftain whose name means ‘Wild Wind’…which the song uses as a metaphor for constant change sweeping through a sequence of historical vignettes: from the Kitchiwank who first lived here, to the Dutch settlers, the Revolutionary War, intense labor battles surrounding the building of the Croton Dam, to John Reed, the communists up on Red Hill, the movie stars and artists who came here in the 20s…to the advent of the diesel engine and the four lane highway. Musically this song jumps from Crazy Horse-inspired rock and roll to lush orchestration, with a ragtime sequence for the 1920's narrative. The wind blows up the Hudson along the shoreline, and it really is wild.

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from The (Greater) Croton Songbook, track released February 1, 2012
Rob Morsberger is a singer-songwriter and classically-trained composer. His last album, 'The Chronicle of A Literal Man', was featured on PRI/NPR and received raves in USA Today, The Boston Globe and Herald, and more. Writing in the Herald, renowned rock critic Kevin Convey stated that the "album is the kind of hyperliterate, pop-inflected singersongwriter outing that went out of style when Warren Zevon died. And…he can write a hook that could make angels weep." As a sideman, he is currently working on the new Patti Smith album; other credits include My Morning Jacket, Crash Test Dummies, Marshall Crenshaw, Jules Shear, Loudon Wainwright III, Dan Zanes, and The Roches. Scoring/arranging credits include Boardwalk Empire, Masterpiece Theater, NOVA and Frontline. He was composer for the award-winning PBS series NOVAscienceNOW for its first five seasons.

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