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106: Son Volt – 10 Second News


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Son Volt – 10 Second News

This week I talk about some more Missouri melodrama. This time it’s Times Beach. Times Beach was a newspaper promotion that turned a floodplain into a town, into a national disaster, into a floodplain, and into a state park.

Homework

Ten Second News by Son Volt is off their first album Trace. Also it is Shawna Lutes and my favorite traveling music.

Lyrics Discussed

When you find what matters is what you feel

It arrives and it disappears
Driving down sunny 44 highway
There’s a beach there known for cancer
Waiting to happen

And

And it’s hard enough soaking up billboard signs

You scorch and drown alive, never knowing why
The levee gates are open wide
There’s a cough in the water and it’s running into town

The History

Ill-Fated Times Beach, Missouri

Epa History - Times Beach

Times Beach, Missouri

Waste-oil hauler Russell Bliss, who allegedly sprayed dioxin-contaminated oil…

Learn about Dioxin

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