{"id":249,"date":"2014-08-28T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/underthebigoaktree.net\/?p=249"},"modified":"2014-08-28T07:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T07:00:05","slug":"farmers-son-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underthebigoaktree.net\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"“Farmer’s Son” (Preview)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three questions for Sean Cleary<\/strong> about his song “Farmer’s Son” which is featured on our forthcoming album. \u00a0Listen to a preview of the song here. \u00a0LISTEN HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Q1. Legend has it that you wrote this song in the time it took to play it once through. Is the recording on the album basically what you imagined in that moment?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A. Yep – \u00a0I wrote it in under 5 minutes. It is one of those songs that just fell out of the sky. It is basically the same as the day it came to me . The band did not change it at all, just added more\u00a0flavor.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Q2. Are you in fact a farmer\u2019s son?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A. I am a farmer’s son and very proud to be brought up in that fashion. Every line is as true as it gets. I think that is why it was easy to come up with.<\/em><\/p>\n

Q3. You sing about your own sons\u2019s connection to the farm (\u201cThe fate of my boys is all but done\/They\u2019ll always be a farmer\u2019s son\u201d), but there\u2019s also a lyric about how at a certain age you stopped identifying with farming life as much (\u201cI knew it all at twenty-one\/Had me a plan to leave and run\u201d). What about the farming legacy would you want to pass on to your four boys?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A. I still own the very farm mentioned in the song and very much involved in its operation.\u00a0\u00a0I am the 5th generation owner and proud of my family’s farming heritage. The line about knowing it all at 21 is a poke at myself and not fully understanding the gift God had blessed me with. I guess the legacy I want to pass on to my boys is that no matter what they end up being, the family farm will always be part of them.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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