JOHN MAYALL - NATURE'S DISAPPEARING

NATURE'S DISAPPEARING

JOHN MAYALL

SONGWRITER: JOHN MAYALL

COUNTRY: U.K.

ÁLBUM: U.S.A. UNION

LABEL: POLYDOR RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1970

John Mayall OBE (Macclesfield, 29 de novembro de 1933) é um cantor, compositor e multi-instrumentalista inglês que toca blues.

Com uma carreira musical que atravessa mais de cinquenta anos, foi o fundador da banda John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers e influenciou muitos instrumentistas, como Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Peter Green, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor e Larry Taylor, entre outros.

USA Union is a 1970 album by blues musician John Mayall, featuring Harvey Mandel on guitar, Larry Taylor on bass and Don "Sugarcane" Harris on violin. The album was recorded on July 27 & 28th, 1970 at Larrabee Studios in LA and released by Polydor later in the same year.

At the end of the sixties John Mayall was residing in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California and had developed connections with local musicians, befriending Harvey Mandel and Larry Taylor, who had both just departed Canned Heat. Taylor had appeared on one track of Mayall's previous album, Empty Rooms, the only studio recordings of his "Turning Point" band, and stayed on to replace Stephen Thompson (with whom he duetted on "To a Princess"); Mandel essentially replaced acoustic guitar specialist Jon Mark, and electric violinist Harris replaced saxophonist Johnny Almond. In the USA Union liner notes, Mayall noted that, after the Turning Point band broke up, he'd played a British music festival with an all-star lineup and then needed to form a new band swiftly when Polydor Records pressed him for a new album.

Man's a filthy creature

Raping the land and water and the air

Tomorrow may be too late

Now's the time that you must be aware

Nature's disappearing

Polluted death is coming, do you care

Garbage going nowhere

Soon the dumps will spread to your front door

Lakes and rivers stagnant

Nothing lives or grows like years before

Nature's disappearing

The world you take for granted soon no more

Read about pollution

Make manufacturers uncomfortable

Boycott at the market

Containers that are non-returnable

Aluminum, glass and plastic

Eternal waste that's not destructible

We're a generation

That may live out our natural time

But as for all our children

Born to suffocate in human slime

Nature's disappearing

And we are guilty of this massive crime