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Shipwrecked in the Eighties (Live at Farm Aid VI, Cyclone Stadium, Ames, IA - April 1993)
About This Song
About "Shipwrecked in the Eighties (Live at Farm Aid VI, Cyclone Stadium, Ames, IA - April 1993)" by The Highwaymen
A stadium-sized lament for a generation adrift. The Highwaymen trade verses like sailors passing a bottle on a sinking ship, their weathered harmonies buoyed by pedal steel. Nostalgia curdles into irony: the eighties were a wreck, and this live elegy finds strange comfort in the wreckage.