This came up in the zoom today and I thought it would make a cool thread! Do you have music that is about gardening? About vegetables? About defending the earth/nature?
Here is some that I thought of…
Jean Ritchie, black waters. About how the mining came into Appalachia and screwed up the land and screwed over the people.
David the good, bury my rabbit 'neath the cherry tree. Trust me, it’s better to go in not knowing, just listen and enjoy
David the good, Cabbage rap. This is more in line with what I think Joseph Lofthouse had in mind with what he talked about.
I love this thread and especially the song about the buried pets. I was thinking about which kind of traditional Swiss folk music could fit the description but came up empty on the gardening front. Farming work on the other hand is quite well represented:
D’Sägäzä isch Dängälät ( the scythe has been peened)
Traditional call for the cows:
And just a beautiful song that is very dear to my heart
These are probably all quite exotic (maybe even horrible?) to you, but who knows, maybe someone likes it? And I would love if some lesser known music styles could be represented here, while still respecting the OPs idea
This music might come across as a bit conceptual (no lyrics), but the first thing that came to my mind is Mother Earth’s Plantasia from 1976. I wonder whether it came as an inspired constrast to Kraftwerk, which were at the peak of their popularity and thematically at the other end of the spectrum (robots, autobahns, jet planes, man-machines, computers etc). So if you like, consider it the gardener’s Kraftwerk. Alas, no lyrics!
Huni Kui songs, most related to nature, forest in particular, which are healing song as well, for the plants which guide them for ages, like Tobacco (“Rapé”):
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