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They say write about what you know, so I created a song about spring planting on the farm in Iowa. Featured towards the end of the song is Hannah Moqueda reading her poem “Small Crumbling Towns”.
Erick Hovey

Here is Hannah’s poem:
Clouds like cotton balls
In a baby blue sky
The sun touches down to rolling green fields
Row by row intersected by
The roads I’m traveling
And small crumbling towns that feel like home

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The rooster crows, the garden calls, sharpen the hoes, mend the overalls
Cause it’s coming, morning on the farm
Check the weather, check the oil too, fuel yourself up and the tractor too
Cause the scare balls rising, on the farm

In Iowa

You head on out, coffee in your hand, pull in the field and there’s somthin to mend already, on the farm
You fix it up nice and try it again, pull up the markets, your gonna bust the bin, this time

In Iowa, In Iowa

By morning call your behind the eight ball, just put it in the ground, might reap it in the fall
Or winter, or next spring
Just about noon, can’t take a break, weather windows closing, don’t tempt fate
Cause mother nature, wins

In Iowa, In Iowa

Crops spiking through every seed tries, its leafin out, you know it’s on the rise
A frost comes along, everything dies, but it still bounces back cause it wants to be alive

In Iowa, In Iowa

Every farmer feeds about a hundred sixty five, folks go hungry if they don’t try
On the farm, In Iowa


In Iowa, In Iowa, In Iowa, In Iowa



Clouds like cotton balls
In a baby blue sky
The sun touches down to rolling green fields
Row by row intersected by
The roads I’m traveling
And small crumbling towns that feel like home

Six oclock we’re playin in the dirt now

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from we're all out here because we're not all there, released September 10, 2021
Written and recorded by Erick Hovey in The Barn
Mastered by Tom Scheponik at The SoundLab
Recorded by Erick Hovey at The Barn
Vocal and guitar: Erick Hovey
Bass: Bill Hoft
Keys: Dave Hearn
Backing vocals: Hannah Mosqueda, Don Sorensen, Jessica Webb
Reading her poem: Hannah Mosqueda

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Erick Hovey and Friends Fort Dodge, Iowa

Erick Hovey's music is peppered with seasonings of blues, roots rock, jazz, funk, old power trio rock, reggae, and newer folk fusion styles. His lyrical content has not only good humored nods towards classic blues and rock clichés’, but spans the afterlife, and existentialism as well. Sometimes it’s spooky, sometimes it’s raw, spiritual, and sensual. Think Mark Knopfler, JJ Cale, and Peter Green. ... more

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