This great song "last bus from Tupelo" by Frankie Newsome is a story of a poor young man from the rural south who goes to the urban north to seek his fortune. Instead, he gets taken advantage of, used/abused there. Do folks know of any other songs from this lyrical genre? (poor rural blacks that get taken advantage of in cities like Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati, etc). 

Thanks!  

 

 

Stevie Wonder - Living For the City

 

Really good idea for a thread ! Looking forward to seeing what comes up.

 

Much covered song - but I really love this version !

It was a (long) while before I realised Gladys Knight's 'Midnight Train To Georgia' was about this.  Her man must have had a really shit time in the North to want to go back to Georgia during that period.

 

Junior Walker & the All Stars version of Way Back Home is about nostalgia for the South, it's one of my favourite songs

 

Doris Duke just tremendous

 

Edited June 7, 20187 yr by manus

Sorry meant to post this Doris Duke I don't care anymore

 

Edited June 7, 20187 yr by manus

On 22/10/2017 at 20:00, ljblanken said:

 

 

Thank you, that is beautiful stuff.