{"id":14622,"date":"2013-01-12T14:01:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T22:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14622"},"modified":"2013-01-12T14:21:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T22:21:42","slug":"watch-the-deep-dark-woods-encore-of-the-banks-of-the-leopold-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/watch-the-deep-dark-woods-encore-of-the-banks-of-the-leopold-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Deep Dark Woods’ Encore of “The Banks Of The Leopold Canal”"},"content":{"rendered":"

January seems to be a great month for Canadian band The Deep Dark Woods<\/strong>.\u00a0 Last January we wrote about their great 2011 album<\/a> The Place I Left Behind<\/strong>.\u00a0 While the song featured prominently in our post last January, the band’s beautiful song The Banks Of The Leopold Canal<\/strong> <\/em>bears repeated listens, and Vanguard\/Sugarhill Records<\/strong> has just released a video of the band’s performance of the song in an “Americana Session.”<\/p>\n

As we said last year, The Deep Dark Woods<\/strong> delivers dark tales with pristine, gorgeous harmonies and precise piano, guitar. banjo and violin embellishments.\u00a0 On The Banks Of The Leopold Canal<\/strong><\/em> depicts a Canadian soldier and his lament as he prepares to leave his home and love for battle in WWII.\u00a0 [A little history lesson<\/strong>:\u00a0 the battle for the Leopold Canal was part of a larger battle fought by Canadian soldiers called the Battle of the Scheldt<\/b> in northern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands during World War II in the Fall of 1944.\u00a0 By September 1944, it had become urgent for the allies to clear both banks of the Scheldt estuary in order to open the port of Antwerp to Allied shipping for their their supply lines from Normandy. \u00a0 The Canadian forces suffered heavy casualties during the process, including at the Leopold Canal, where thousands died.]\u00a0 Hence the song’s heavy lyrics and apparent method-acting delivery below.\u00a0 Check it out.\u00a0 Stunningly good.<\/p>\n