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Article: John Train: Mesopotamia Blues.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
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- March 22, 2008
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JOHN TRAIN
Mesopotamia Blues
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First a key fact you might not know: Mesopotamia is the ancient name for the region now known as Iraq. Thus John Train's Mesopotamia Blues is his album about the ongoing, neverending misadventure in Iraq.
John Train is Jon Houlon. He wrote seven songs here and set Rudyard Kipling's eerie and disquieting "Mesopotamia (1917)" to music. "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" depicts visitors to Iraq over many decades each taking some sort of booty out of the country. The Colonel Leachman of "Leachman's Ghost" was in the British force "liberating" Mesopotamia from Turkish rule. He was slain by a ...
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