tales of truth and music to behold.

I love music that tells stories. be it Gordon lightfoot, Stompin' Tom, or Les Claypool. I especially dig the ones that tell a real true it happened story. Such as Stompin Tom's "the bridge came tumbling down". It's about the collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge. I couldn't find the song to post so i went over to the Wicki page and ripped out a part of that.

On June 17, 1958, as a crane stretched from the north side of the new bridge to join the two chords of the unfinished arch, several spans collapsed. Seventy-nine workers plunged 30 metres (100 ft) into the water. Eighteen were killed either instantly or shortly thereafter, possibly drowned by their heavy tool belts. A diver searching for bodies drowned later, bringing the total fatalities for the collapse to 19. In a subsequent Royal Commission inquiry, the bridge collapse was attributed to miscalculation by bridge engineers. A temporary arm, holding the fifth anchor span, was deemed too light to bear the weight.[2]
However, i did find another by Jimmy Dean, called "Steel Men". so here it is.



Here are 3 more stories. The first 2 have that sorta "Canadian sound". i can't really define it, Maybe it's just because they are from a bygone era.

Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald.
On November 10, 1975, while traveling on Lake Superior during a gale, the Fitzgerald sank suddenly in Canadian waters approximately 17 miles (15 nmi; 27 km) from the entrance of Whitefish Bay at a depth of 530 feet (160 m). Although she had reported having some difficulties prior to the accident, the Fitzgerald sank without sending any distress signals. Her crew of 29 perished in the sinking with no bodies being recovered. When the wreck was found, it was discovered that the Fitzgerald had broken in two.



Big Joe Mufferaw, Stompin Tom Connors
Big Joe Mufferaw was a French Canadian folk hero from the Ottawa Valley, perhaps best known today as the hero of a song by Stompin' Tom Connors. Like Paul Bunyan, he made his living chopping down trees. The name is also sometimes spelled Muffero, Muffera, and Montferrand. The last spelling is more common among francophones; anglophones who had trouble with it used one of the other spellings.
In addition to being the subject of many Paul Bunyan-esque tall tales, Mufferaw is sometimes enlisted as a defender of oppressed French Canadian loggers in the days when their bosses were English and their rivals for work were Irish. In one story, Big Joe was in a Montreal bar, where a British army major named Jones was freely insulting French Canadians. After Big Joe beat the major, he bellowed, "Any more insults for the Canadians?"



Over The Falls. Primus.

There has been many attempts over the years to successfully go over the Niagra Falls in various types of contraptions. these stories are cool and therefore I am left with no other alternative but to create a second post dedicated to such lunacy and brilliance as has never been demonstrated either here nor there nor anywhere. i do not like green eggs and ham.....