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Corb Lund & Friends: This is my meadow
On a black and white split screen, Terri Clark leans into a microphone as Corb Lund sings: “This is my meadow; this is my home.”
It’s the heartfelt and heartbreaking chorus from This Is My Prairie, a track from Lund’s popular 2009 album Losin ‘Lately Gambler, rewritten and released this week as a powerful collective statement from some of Canada’s best-known country music stars. they call Alberta Home.
In the official video, ranchers drive cattle through stunning mountainous landscapes as the song continues, “Well, they can drill and they can extract my smoking bones, because this is my pasture and this is my home.”
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The anthem is a show of solidarity and Lund’s latest effort to draw Albertans’ attention to the dangers of open pit coal mining in the Rocky Mountains, particularly the potential for selenium to poison our water as a result. of these activities. Last June, the PCU government quietly reversed a long-standing coal mining policy that protected 1.5 million hectares of land on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains from open pit mining, converting them in a fair game for foreign mining companies to move.
“The proposed mines are a terrible deal for Albertans and a great threat to our water. The few coal jobs that we have been promised do not begin to offset the short-term or long-term economic and environmental costs of this disaster, ”Lund said in a written statement released with the song. “I think the government would like the public to forget about this issue, but the fight is far from over.”
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When a close-up of pretty prairie buttercups appears, Brett Kissel, Paul Brandt, Armond Duck Chief, Mike Plume, and Nice Horse’s female harmonies take turns sharing their parts.
Before Sherryl Sewepagaham is given space to share the indigenous values of respecting the land in her beautiful Cree.
Common Ground builds a community, but there are few things that each and every one of us share – calling Alberta home and seeing its pristine beauty is one of those things, and this video shows some of the best things about our home.
Art moves us with a message that transcends mere words, and it reaches directly to the heart.
The money raised from this single will help support Save the mountains and Preserving our special places.
Reference-edmontonjournal.com