DESCRIPTION:
Charlie Roth & The Healers live on Baby Blue Arts television in Minneapolis MN. Charlie Roth - vocals, acoustic guitar, foot percussion, Kurt 'Lightning' Rodman - Fender telecaster guitar, Tommy Vee - Kala Uke Bass. The song was written by Charlie Roth inspired by a photograph of an old farmhouse in a bean field taken by Casey Weber. It was recorded in 2012 and included on the album Tartan Cactus Heart. available on Itunes and CDbaby.com

This song came very quickly, I was just having one of those good days. Casey always posts on his face book page all these great photographs from his travels out to where I grew up near the South Dakota border in western Minnesota. My friend Jerry Ostensoe describes it as a little bit East of West. Out there it is just pretty much farm land and a few little towns here and there. The people are hardworking and for the most part honest. My song Broken Ground mentions the decline in the population and that is one of those things that makes you kind of sad to see. This song is a tribute to those folks and their spirit. They talk about Minnesota nice, out there you really see it. I am proud to call that place my home. Back when I was younger I thought farm land was ugly, kind of plain. It was not until I went away, first to the Philippine Islands and then to the deserts of Arizona in the United States Air Force and then returned that I realized that it was beautiful. Like my song 'Broken Ground' the images are of tilled soil. This is a direct tribute to the poet Robert Bly who is also from Madison MN. Robert was Madison's only famous person he was considered by many in that stoic German Norwegian settled area to be an odd man. To me he proved that a world class poet could come from out of those plains, out of that black tilled soil and those tiny towns. He was an inspiration. I also wanted to write a song that would make my mother smile. She loved it.