Pete Morton is absolutely one of my favorite folk singers of all time. While I love his voice and his simple guitar playing, the real beauty of his music is in his message and the way he crafts the words and images.
He is English, lives in London, and performs mostly in England, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany. Occasionally, he will drift over to the States and play at The Focal Point here is St. Louis. If there were any sanity in the music business he would be better known that he is. Of course, folk music is a style that drifts in and out of popularity… but not with me.
Given that the situation in this world and this country seems to be degenerating more and more quickly, I think what the world needs is Pete’s message in his song, Two Brothers, to be taken to heart.
Sometimes the greed, the lust for power, the lust for money, the absolute self-centeredness of so many folks, the need to impose your beliefs, your religion, your values on others, even against their will, just overwhelms me. It is more than I can bear at times, and there really is no place to run. There is no alien inter-galactic ark coming to carry us safely to the proverbial mountain top.
Below is Pete Morton’s song Two Brothers. Enjoy, maybe even meditate on the message.
And so I wish it would go.
Good share.