Dust Bowl

[kalijasin]

My Grandma and Grandpa grew up in Kansas right in the dust bowl. I dont know how the survived it. It was miserable.

[cchanderson]

The dust bowl was like the Midwest turned into Egypt for a decade.

[kalijasin]

@cchanderson It was not exclusive to the Midwest. Some of the southwest and the south were hit too. The dust bowl went from southern south Dakota straight down to Northern & Central Texas. Some of eastern: Colorado, new mexico, Wyoming, and Montana were hit too, but nowhere as bad as Northern Texas and Kansas. Kansas and Northern Texas were HIT the hardest as the Dust and drought settled mostly over that region.

[0wn3dd]

4:20 is that a joint?

[jacobman4545]

my g ma was in that strom she is still a live to day it was hell that day it was she said we tryed to get in side but it was to munch she said

[colorfulmush]

this song has nothing to do with the dustbowl but i love it anyways

[dafringe]

I gotta tell you... that was damn good! ;-)

[Animalcrosingcf1]

I love the song.. related to the pictures.

[captaineyeballexp]

wonderful song. thank you for recreating the feel of the dust bowl. a great lesson in many ways for our country.

[captaineyeballexp]

wonderful song.  thank you for recreating the feel of the dust bowl.

[filetemar]

i want these lyrics, could someone post them, please ? (:

[MsJuju1998]

This was so sad i learned about this in school

[DDL1337]

Great vid, watched it in Geographic^^

[shefakodesh]

I love the music; great job...excellent video.

[dieseldevine80]

cellmate1 is a little pecker dickhead.

[Animalcrosingcf1]

@dieseldevine80 Totally. :P

[cellmate1]

CAN WE HAVE THE VIDEO WITHOUT THIS STUPID MUSIC??? I WANNA LEARN SOMETHING!!

[socalsugar]

@cellmate1

Most computers come equipped with a volume dial. Try turning it all the way to the left.

Good luck

[UKFDubstepBeats]

@cellmate1 Listen dumbshit this music teaches you about it, if you were smart enough u'd listen to the fucking lyrics. So have a nice day and go fuck yourself :)

[Animalcrosingcf1]

@cellmate1 How bout you just shut up and respect the past.

[mackay10]

Read Timothy Egan's book "The Worst Hard Time". It made me cry so many times, but it's amazing to see what our ancestors had to go through. Gotta remind myself of how much worse it could be when I'm having a tough day :)

[vmt1]

Yes, it was "man-made" because, unfortunately, the farmers did not know about rotating crops. And although the dust bowl itself is not happening again - are we not in another major economic crisis? Nobody in power wants to call it a "depression" but with the high unemployment, foreclosures: what's the difference?

[my2cents2u]

Thanks for introducing us to this great song. I'll Google Pete Bernhard now

[TheVenther]

post more pete berhard

[TheVenther]

fuck yeah

[IgnisWander]

It was a tragedy that didn't have to happen. greed and disregard for the land made a bad drought into a hell on earth. I wish more people would remember stuff like this. Great vid

[2smokey4u]

@IgnisWander Well said sir! I feel your pain with regards to this man-made disaster!!!!!

[CoreyStudios2000]

@IgnisWander i think it was underconsumption and mechinization

[roksarogue]

Well what is most important..is that this song kicks fucking ASS!

[cokhaostd]

The picture at 0:09 was taken by Dorothea Lange in California. She was documenting migrant farm workers.

[BTgirl1296]

0:09 isnt from the dust bowl... nice try though

[l0lidude]

@BTgirl1296 It's one of the most famous Dust Bowl photos...

[BTgirl1296]

@l0lidude no. it was something else i remember seeing it in school before even hearing about the dust bowl

[UrbanSniper96]

@BTgirl1296 shes from the dust bowl

[hipp6y]

@BTgirl1296 Although this isn't the picture of the dust bowl, it is closely related. This woman is a homeless(migrant) mother, driven out of her home by the devastation and hunger brought on by the disaster. I believe it was taken by one of the photographers working for FSA. Please try to get your facts right before trying to correct someone.

[netwitted]

this song and artist should be enjoyed by more people

[tomitstube]

nicely done.

[alfonsinamdq]

Si se sigue desmontando para sembrar soja, va a volver a pasar.

[2smokey4u]

Its funny how the Indians (real Americans) and Buffalo co-existed with this topography for millennia, but as soon as Spaniards/White men came into the picture, they destroyed it all in a matter of 3 decades. What a sad but true fairy tale! But it should come as no surprise since they have been destroying the world since the 1400s

[estelle715]

@2smokey4u How about Kennewick Man?

[fartiou]

kansas got the worst

[mikeduwyoedu]

Love pete and the devil makes three! Anybody have the tab for this song, or at least know the picking style?

[MrsSarb]

This music is incredible! Very talented artist. The combination of the music and images is perfect.

[abarbee81]

this song is pete, the singer from the devil makes three, and one of my favorite of all time. check them out on youtube and check out their youtube, which links you to pete's myspace page to hear a couple more songs from him.

[bubblinbrownsuga66]

Are you sure that all these photos are vintage Dust Bowl era pictures? The photo at :39 is from the paperback book cover of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out Of Carolina which wasn't even set in the Dust Bowl time.

[eyecharades]

sad and crazy:(

[evenscreaming]

this is amazing. both song and pics.

[laura20022004]

the dust blizzard happen in 1935 tons of people died of coking dust. it happen in texas

[littlesecret4me]

Good song. Good pix. Good vid. =]

[tkeitez66]

An awesome song to compliment the vivid photos of despair. Masterful job of blending the two .. esp. picking out the montage of photos and matching them to the lyrics. Never hear of the song or the artist before but he has great lyrics, melody and it just knocked me out. I almost knew the dust bowl but not quite. I hope never again.

[apuggs]

AWSOME song

[hapydays13]

The Dust Bowl was just horrible. I am doing a report with a friend on it. These pictures show me more to put into the repot. *sigh*

[5me5rox5]

Good Job.

(Nice song to go with it.)

Make more

[rushphilo]

Great song pick to go with the pics.