--- "This Wheel's on Fire" (Rick Danko & Bob Dylan) -- 0:00
--- "Tillers of the Sod" (Matt Meacham) -- 3:05
--- "Blackberry Blossom" (Traditional) -- 7:13
--- "By the Side of the Road" (Albert Brumley) -- 8:35

Matt Meacham -- Edwardsville -- 4 - 13 - 20

"Stem the Flow" (Matt Meacham)

"Stem the Flow" discusses the 2011 flood, including the activation of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, and its aftermath and social impact near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in southeast Missouri and southern Illinois.

Matt Meacham -- Stem The Flow

"Song of a Coal Miner's Son" (Marv Juhl, adapted by Matt Meacham)

"Song of a Coal Miner's Son" is my variation on a song by my great uncle, Marv Juhl, who had a bluegrass band with two of his sons and several of their friends in southern Illinois in the 1970s and '80s.

Matt Meacham -- Song Of A Coal Miner's Son

"Tillers of the Sod" (Matt Meacham)

My alternate title for "Tillers of the Sod" is "The Populist Midwestern Prairie Agricultural Historian's Waltz," because it's a waltz that tells the history of agriculture on the Midwestern prairies from a populist perspective.

Matt Meacham -- Tillers Of The Sod

"Grandin to Granite City" (Matt Meacham)

It occurred to me that around the same time that the steel industry was beginning to take off in Granite City, Illinois, in the 1910s and '20s, the timber boom that had been under way in the Missouri Ozarks was coming to an end, so I imagined a scenario in which unemployed sawmill workers from the lumber company town of Grandin, Missouri, moved to Granite City to work in the steel mills. The result is this rather alliterative little number called "Grandin to Granite City."

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