January 19th, 2010

The South End String Band – being a bellwether for the subtle signs that signal major social tsunamis – have been watching, with concern, the sad saga of Colton Harris-Moore. We wrote a song about the kid nearly two years ago, but shelved it, thinking why make this punk a legend? We’d just end up with Colton wannabees holed up in the old growth nettle forests of the South End, all of em stealing airplanes and crashing them into our shack roofs.

But now we got more reporters per acre tromping our backwoods than they got folks to interview. The world is hungry for tabloid heroes is all we can figure, even if they’re adolescent creeps who would rather steal what they want than work for it, sort of like a woodsy banker who doesn’t trouble himself with burdensome paperwork.

So the Band decided to release our heretofore sequestered tune The Sad Saga of Colton Moore to a clamoring world. So much for High Mindedness, I guess. Look for our DVD in all fine South End Mercantiles or just listen to it on You-Tube. We know what you’re thinking: you’re not gonna get sucked into a tabloid journalism frenzy. But we got news for you — the South End is going viral. Or at least bacterial. Our DVD might just be the immunization you need….

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