Matamoros Banks Springsteen cover

Matamoros Banks
What an extraordinary song! At the beginning the person singing (an illegal Mexican immigrant trying to cross the Matamoros to get to Brownsville, Texas) has been dead for a couple of days and tells the story backwards until the moment he got shot! Why and by whom he was shot remains unknown to the listener.
The song originates into Bruce's time in Cali, when he was interested in this subject a lot.
This song is definitely influenced by Guthrie and Cash
Check out "Give my love to Rose": Bruce plays both songs using the same tuning and the same picking style (flatpick).
In both songs somebody's dying or dead and remembering his beloved.
In both songs a man was travelling either back to his family or to the USA, in either version you might say they were travelling to some sort of Promised Land and failed.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Matamoros
• Banks
• Springsteen
• cover
• Devils
• and
• Dust
• acoustic
• guitar
• fingerpicking
• Garrison
• G20LCE

[giovannibrunoro]

che esecuzione, che interpretazione, che voce... straordinario antonio, incredibile.

[bentonio07]

Ti ringrazio tanto :)

Un fantastico commento!!!

[Darrenchill]

really bravo!

[bentonio07]

thanks a lot!!!

[bulbheadmyass]

OMG, Antonio, you do an awesome version of this great song. Really an amazing rendition. --Jan

[bentonio07]

Thanks a lot, Jan. It was a real challenge, but I absolutely wanted to do this one.

Appreciate your comment!

[MrBaltimoreJack]

Straordinario davvero. Intensissima, una esecuzione magnifica - per una magnifica canzone.

Una delle mie preferite.

Complimenti

[agrippina42]

complimenti!! dove hai trovato gli spartiti??

[kajwilhelm]

Sounds like Bruce. His brother, maybe ? : )

[justforfun73]

Tolle Version eines todtraurigen Songs.

Du hast den Song verstanden und das hört man.

Daumen hoch!

[anvr8]

watch his right hand

[richgurlie101]

Very good job. Wish Springsteen would do this live.

[giovannibrunoro]

la ascolto a distanza di mesi ed è sempre una grandissima emozione.

[woutermrquacky]

Pretty good!