P.O.W. / M.I.A.
2013 · Goner 102 GONE · Memphis, Tennessee
- Artist
- Moving Finger
- Title
- P.O.W. / M.I.A.
- Release
- Smokin the Crack of Dawn
- Year
- 2013
- Label
- Goner # 102 GONE
- Format
- 7" · EP
- Country
- Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Genre
- Punk · Garage Punk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Moving Finger, a punk band formed in 2013 in Memphis, Tennessee, by J.B. Horrell (member of the garage punk band Ex-Cult), and featuring his wife Laurel Horrell (drums) and Patrick Glass (bass).1 This album included the short, 49 second song "P.O.W. / M.I.A." (Goner Records # 102 GONE), containing one verse and chorus, repeated twice, which asked Uncle Sam to "find my brother...all alone in prison" in "crazy Vietnam". Thus, this returned to the 1970s/80s trend of suggesting that prisoners of war remain in Vietnam and that the government needed to do more to bring them home.& Vietnam War: Punk Songs Sources1memphisflyer.com: On the move↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — P.O.W. / M.I.A. Songs
Moving Finger, a punk band formed in 2013 in Memphis, Tennessee, by J.B. Horrell (member of the garage punk band Ex-Cult), and featuring his wife Laurel Horrell (drums) and Patrick Glass (bass).1 This album included the short, 49 second song "P.O.W. / M.I.A." (Goner Records # 102 GONE), containing one verse and chorus, repeated twice, which asked Uncle Sam to "find my brother...all alone in prison" in "crazy Vietnam". Thus, this returned to the 1970s/80s trend of suggesting that prisoners of war remain in Vietnam and that the government needed to do more to bring them home. Sources1memphisflyer.com: On the move↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Punk Songs
Moving Finger, a punk band formed in 2013 in Memphis, Tennessee, by J.B. Horrell (member of the garage punk band Ex-Cult), and featuring his wife Laurel Horrell (drums) and Patrick Glass (bass).1 This album included the short, 49 second song "P.O.W. / M.I.A." (Goner Records # 102 GONE), containing one verse and chorus, repeated twice, which asked Uncle Sam to "find my brother...all alone in prison" in "crazy Vietnam". Thus, this returned to the 1970s/80s trend of suggesting that prisoners of war remain in Vietnam and that the government needed to do more to bring them home.Sources1memphisflyer.com: On the move↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Find my brother, find my brother...Uncle Sam / All alone in a prison slump, crazy Vietnam / POW/MIA...find my brother, find my brother / Find my brother, find my brother...Uncle Sam / All alone in a prison slump, crazy Vietnam / POW/MIA...find my brother, find my brother
Notes
Goner Records; white label with a line drawing of a hand and "45 l.s.d."; black-bordered white sleeve with the band name and a skull-and-arrows emblem. The back lists Side A "Smokin the Crack of Dawn" and "P.O.W. / M.I.A", Side B "Tres Dolares"; Side A recorded by Keith Cooper at the Burgundy Ballroom, Side B recorded by Andrew McCalla. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Punk group, formed in 2013 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; members included J.B. Horrell (also of Ex-Cult), Laurel Horrell (drums) and Patrick Glass (bass).