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  • King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
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  • 1969 songs
  • The Band songs
  • Song recordings produced by John Simon (record producer)
  • Songs written by Robbie Robertson
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  • %22King Harvest (Has Surely Come)%22 is a song by The Band which originally appeared as the final track on their second album, The Band. The song is credited solely to Robbie Robertson, although Levon Helm claims that %22King Harvest%22 was a group effort. It is sung in first person from the point of view of an unnamed, poverty-stricken farmer who, with increasing desperation, details the misfortune which has befallen him: there was no rain and his crops died, his barn burned down, he has ended up on skid row. A labor union organizer appears, promising to improve things, and the narrator tells his new associates %22I'm a union man, now, all the way%22, but, perhaps ashamed of his station, begs them %22just don't judge me by my shoes.%22 The events depicted in the song are most likely a reference to the organizing drives of the Trade Union Unity League which created share-cropper unions from 1928-1935, throughout the U.S. South.Noted rock critic Greil Marcus called it %22The Band's song of blasted country hopes%22 and suggested that %22King Harvest%22 might be Robertson's finest song, and the best example of the group's approach to songwriting and performing. Author Neil Minturn praised its %22dark, eerie earnestness.%22The song's structure is unusual: the verses, sung by Band vocalist Richard Manuel are energetic, while the choruses (sung by Manuel and Levon Helm) are more subdued, in contrast to typical song structure, possibly reflecting the desperate if unsure hope the protagonist holds in the union.
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  • Robbie Robertson
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  • original studio mix
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  • USCA20000973
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  • John Simon (record producer)
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  • 3509
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  • 3103128
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  • english
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  • Capitol Records
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  • King Harvest
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