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Carolina Song

from On A Whim by A Different Thread

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There has been many songs written about North Carolina, having grown up in NC Alicia Best decided to try her hand at a 'Carolina Song' when she was abroad in the UK during a protest that took place in her hometown Durham NC. The protestors gathered in front of the old courthouse and toppled the Confederate statue that had been erected in the 1920s right outside. As a friend aptly pointed out "The Courthouse is a place where people go to seek justice. How can you trust that you will get justice, as a person of color, if there is a glorified statue of the rebel army right outside the door looking down on you." In this song Alicia says "Change can't come too soon", although she grew up in NC at a time where many changes have happened in her lifetime, she hopes that the changes the south continues to make move towards deconstructing the racism that the south was built on.

lyrics

I hear they put a new light up at the Kraken on 54
I’m back in North Carolina but it don’t feel like home
I don’t wanna be living in the past, it seems the past it catching up

They say times are a changin’
They say time heals all wounds
But I’ve got these ghosts and change can’t come
Too soon, Carolina, come too soon

They built up the city skyline but we’re not learning
It wasn’t long ago we saw the crosses burning
Sure I wanna say that we’ve come a long way but we’ve got a lot of catching up

They say times are a changin’
They say time heals all wounds
But I’ve got these ghosts and change can’t come
Too soon, Carolina, come too soon

Just like James I hear the highway calling me, I know I’m already gone
It never sounds as sweet when I sing your Carolina song
Oh Carolina, oh oh

They pulled down the statue but its pillar remains
Haunting the courthouse it still says ‘to our boys in grey’
You say it’s history but sure seems to me history is catching up

They say times are a changin’
They say time heals all wounds
But I’ve got these ghosts and change can’t come
Too soon, Carolina, come too soon

Oh Carolina
Oh Carolina, come too soon

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from On A Whim, track released September 13, 2018
Lyrics and composition by Alicia Best and Robert Jackson
Vocals: Alicia Best
Backing vocals: Robert Jackson, Birdie Baird
Guitar, harmonica: Robert Jackson
Cello: Pippa Hoover
Bass: Jeff Crawford
Drums: Rob Banks
Mandolin: Alan Best

Recorded and engineered by Jeff Crawford at Arbor Ridge Studios, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Produced by Jeff Crawford and A Different Thread
Mastered by Pete Maher

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“Warm, deep singer-songwriters who have drank from the well of 20th century tradition” - Folk Radio UK

A Different Thread, is the collaboration between Robert Jackson from Lichfield, England, and Alicia Best from Durham, North Carolina, USA. Both traveling songwriters in their own right, they first met while busking in Galway, Ireland, back in 2016 and have been touring together ever since. ... more

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