New Vietnam Blues
2001 · Telarc Blues CD-83537 · Boston, Massachusetts
- Artist
- Ronnie Earl & Irma Thomas
- Title
- New Vietnam Blues
- Release
- Ronnie Earl & Friends
- Year
- 2001
- Label
- Telarc Blues # CD-83537
- Format
- CD · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Songwriter
- Ronnie Earl, Ted Drozdowski
- Genre
- Blues · Electric Blues · Soul Blues
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
The song "New Vietnam Blues" (Telarc # CD-83537) by Ronnie Earl, born 10 March 1953 in New York, USA, and 60s/70s southern soul vocalist Irma Thomas, born 18 February 1941 in Ponchatoula, Louisianna, USA. The song reflected on the feelings of Vietnam veterans 30 years or so after the war, noting that they were not honoured when they returned to the US.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Blues songs
The song "New Vietnam Blues" (Telarc # CD-83537) by Ronnie Earl, born 10 March 1953 in New York, USA, and 60s/70s southern soul vocalist Irma Thomas, born 18 February 1941 in Ponchatoula, Louisianna, USA. The song reflected on the feelings of Vietnam veterans 30 years or so after the war, noting that they were not honoured when they returned to the US: "when he came home he wasn't honoured", and so "all you Vietnam Vets...I want to thank you".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I know a man who feels so low down I want to lend him a helping hand / Just to lift him off the ground, help him find his soul that he lost in Vietnam / I want to let him know he is not all by himself / When he came home he wasn't honoured... / Vietnam, Vietnam, was a cold place, It won't let your mind be free / I want to let all you Vietnam Vets know, I want to thank you for your victory / They say you didn't win the war, little do they know, you won it all by me
About the artist
"New Vietnam Blues" (7:54) is track 10 on the 2001 Telarc album "Ronnie Earl And Friends", with Irma Thomas as featured guest vocalist over Earl's own band - a studio guest credit rather than a formed duo act. Ronnie Earl (born Ronald Horvath, 10 March 1953, Queens, New York) is a blues guitarist and bandleader, still active in Massachusetts. Irma Thomas (born Irma Lee, 18 February 1941, Ponchatoula, Louisiana), the "Soul Queen of New Orleans", remains an active New Orleans-based vocalist. [Source: Discogs; Wikipedia]