Gillian Welch - April The 14th (Part 1)

[OB0MBER]

My favorite video ever. Best video to music since Magnolia. This leads my playlist with Caleb Meyer up next. That range between the 2 songs is just jaw-dropping.

[Ososchoice]

I return to this song with the images regularly entranced.

[Samefication]

ok, anyone know what else these lyrics refer to? I can see the Titanic, the Dust Bowl, Lincoln getting shot, Oklahama bombing ... anyone know the rest?

[fannyfu]

Actually think it's Black Sunday, April 14, 1935...dust bowl...and the okies fled...Time The Revelator is perfection as is Gillian and Dave...

[chimneyahoy10]

Great video. Well done.

[chemotion]

where is this footage from?

[terr0rkitten]

Just some footage I borrowed from a film archive - I think it is about the depression - not sure to be honest.

[Nonimportante]

I think that may be on of my favorite phrases ever. "The great emancipator took a bullet..."

[chempanillo]

Hi terrorkitten, it's me again, from spain. April the 14th is for us the Republic Day (1931), that old and dreamer Republic strangled by the army, the church and the oligarchs during our Civil War (1936 - 1939). The great emancipator took a bullet...