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Release The Feral Crow
Year 2005
Label Cattail # 2004
Country USA
Language English
Songs here 2 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Scott Ainslie, The Feral Crow, accessed 13 November 2026; cite each song by its SongID

The Feral Crow

2005 · Cattail # 2004 · USA
2 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war. Most common themes: Anti-War.
Annotation
Scott Ainslie, a blues and country singer based in Brattleboro, Vermont, also taught music history and published a music notation book on the delta blues guitarist Robert Johnson (Robert Johnson - Guitar Signature Tricks). He self-released a bunch of albums on his website, including "The Feral Crow" .1 In the song "Don't Obey" he mentioned the Kent State shootings, as well as the 1968 Chicago Demonstrations. The song warned against blindly following Uncle Sam when "they speak to you of glory" and use "words like good and evil" . He used Hitler and Stalin as examples of the "horror of obedience" . Therefore, he called on people not to obey a country's call for war, remembering that at "Kent State...we cry out, we bleed" . In the song "Rice Grows Again in Vietnam" , Ainslie reflected on the land of Vietnam decades after the war, where "new life has begun" . The song featured Vietnamese vocals from Nguyen Dinh Nghia, who fled Saigon in 1975, and immigrated to Washington DC in 1984. The song was dedicated to him, see note below the lyrics.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collections
Songs from this release appear in these 3 curated collections.
The songs
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2005 · Cattail # 2004 · USA · The Feral Crow

American acoustic blues guitarist, singer-songwriter and blues historian, born 1952 in Rochester, New York, and raised in Alexandria, Virginia; took up guitar in 1967 after hearing Virginia bluesman John Jackson, transcribed all of Robert Johnson's recorded songs for 'Robert Johnson/At The Crossroads' (Hal Leonard, 1992), and is based in Brattleboro, Vermont. 'Don't Obey' appears on his 2004 album 'The Feral Crow'; 'Rice Grows Again in Vietnam' is his song of healing dedicated to Vietnamese flute master Nguyen Dinh Nghia. [Source: Blues.gr interview / Bandcamp / cattailmusic.com]

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2005 · Cattail # 2004 · USA · The Feral Crow

American acoustic blues guitarist, singer-songwriter and blues historian, born 1952 in Rochester, New York, and raised in Alexandria, Virginia; took up guitar in 1967 after hearing Virginia bluesman John Jackson, transcribed all of Robert Johnson's recorded songs for 'Robert Johnson/At The Crossroads' (Hal Leonard, 1992), and is based in Brattleboro, Vermont. 'Don't Obey' appears on his 2004 album 'The Feral Crow'; 'Rice Grows Again in Vietnam' is his song of healing dedicated to Vietnamese flute master Nguyen Dinh Nghia. [Source: Blues.gr interview / Bandcamp / cattailmusic.com]