SUNDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO "Train Tracks in the Snow"
Childhood, water, and trains
SUNDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO “Train Tracks in the Snow”
–Train tracks ran alongside Pine Creek when I was a kid growing up in north central Pennsylvania. Living nearby, I mentally catalogued the sounds of trains and waterways. These sounds comforted me and made me feel safe and “connected,” even when it was freezing and snowing. Trains are relentless against cold and ice, and they reminded me there was more to life out there than just my own little world. This spoken word piece recalls winter times along Pine Creek*particularly near Ramsey Village and Cammal.
I recorded this in California with my talented friend, the late, great Jeff Lloyd. He made the free-wheeling synthesizer tracks and I added my bits (remixed by Scott Francis at Mind's Eye Studio in Williamsport PA).
*This Creek (more the size of a river) flows out of New York state southward into the Appalachian mountains, cutting out “The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania.” In the 80s the train tracks were removed and replaced with a popular long-distance bike trail.
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