Icebreaker: If You Could Live in Any Country, Where Would You Live?

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Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.

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If you could live in any country, where would you live?

Either America, or whichever country is more awesome than America.

So, America.

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      • Pre dates LZ

        Canned Heat, who were early blues enthusiasts, based “Going Up the Country” on “Bull Doze Blues”, recorded in 1928 by Texas bluesman Henry Thomas.[3] Thomas was from the songster tradition and had a unique sound,[4] sometimes accompanying himself on quills, an early Afro-American wind instrument similar to panpipes. He recorded “Bull Doze Blues” in Chicago on June 13, 1928, for Vocalion Records.[5]

        For “Going Up the Country”, Canned Heat’s Wilson used Thomas’ melody on the quills and his basic rhythm, but arranged it for a rock setting and rewrote the lyrics. In addition to the bass and drum rhythm section, Henry Vestine supplied a “light electric rhythm guitar”[3] and multi-instrumentalist Jim Horn reproduced Thomas’ quill parts on the flute.[6]

        Although linked to the counterculture of the 1960s’ back-to-the-land movement, Wilson’s lyrics are ambiguous:

        Now, baby, pack your leaving trunk, you know we’ve got to leave today
        Just exactly where we’re going, I cannot say, but we might even leave the U.S.A.
        ‘Cause there’s a brand new game that I don’t wanna play

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