Rock the Cause Records Launches No More Pipeline Blues to Stop Line 3
Composed and produced by troubadour Larry Long with support from recording engineer Brett Huus, the song will be available on multiple platforms including iTunes, Tidal, YouTube and more!
A supporting music video by award-winning filmmaker and photographer Keri Pickett posted to the Honor the Earth YouTube channel underscores the battle on the land and water and in the courts to #StopLine3. The “No More Pipeline Blues (On This Land Where We Belong)” music video is an action-packed mini-documentary, shining a spotlight on the Indigenous women-led resistance to the tar sands pipeline.
Line 3 is owned by the Canadian multi-national, Enbridge, Inc., and dissects the heart of Anishinaabe territories and the most pristine and complex watersheds and ecosystems in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, including Lake Superior.
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No More Pipeline Blues (On This Land Where We Belong) Music Video
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Kari Pickett Music Video Director
Composed and produced by Larry Long with support from recording engineer Brett Huus. Available on multiple platforms including iTunes, Tidal, YouTube and more! Featuring Pura Fe, Bonnie Raitt, Mumu Fresh, Indigo Girls, Waubanewquay, Winona LaDuke, Day Sisters, Soni Moreno, Jennifer Kreisberg, and the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States,Joy Harjo.
A supporting music video by award-winning filmmaker and photographer Keri Pickett posted to the Honor the Earth YouTube channel underscores the battle on the land and water and in the courts to #StopLine3. The “No More Pipeline Blues (On This Land Where We Belong)” music video is an action-packed mini-documentary, shining a spotlight on the Indigenous women-led resistance to the tar sands pipeline.
Line 3 is owned by the Canadian multi-national, Enbridge, Inc., and dissects the heart of Anishinaabe territories and the most pristine and complex watersheds and ecosystems in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, including Lake Superior.
“’No More Pipeline Blues’ beautifully illustrates in music, singing, spoken word and images the threats of a totally unnecessary tar sands pipeline at the end of the age of Big Oil. But it also illuminates the sacredness of our environment, and yet more destructive, historical impacts to Indigenous culture. Still, the song and the music video are also like prayer offered in ceremony, asking for strength, justice and preservation.” – Winona LaDuke, Honor the Earth
“I have been following and joined Winona years ago on the ride against Enbridge’s Line 3. I have listened and learned a lot and saw the many communities, lands and water and fish life and the food life that would be affected if this pipeline should so much leak, let alone break. The song says it all. It would kill everything…and we cannot drink oil. Always we hope our creative endeavors reach the masses with the message of stopping the destruction of life for all and solution. It’s what we can do as artists to help support, as women, as Indigenous people to protect the Earth. I don’t understand the disregard for life. This is the time we really need all people to stand up together and make this change.” – Pura Fé, Tuscarora & Taino Nations
“Line 3 is a brutal, last gasp of a dying industry, proposed to desecrate indigenous lands with catastrophic environmental impact all in the name of short-term profit. ‘No More Pipeline Blues (On This Land Where We Belong)’ brings together many different voices to sing and speak out against Line 3. My hope is that people will hear this song and be stirred to action to come out against Line 3.” – Emily Saliers, Indigo Girls
“I’ve been involved with Honor the Earth and their work protecting Native lands and water since the early ’90s. With the climate crisis beyond it’s tipping point, the movement to stop these destructive and unnecessary fossil fuel pipelines is crucial and deserves more attention than it’s getting. We can join the worldwide shift to developing renewables, ensuring the protection of our environment, the creation of thousands of jobs, and lessening the risk and trauma to both Native communities and the whole Great Lakes region.” – Bonnie Raitt
“The Mississippi River’s watershed flows through one-third of the United States and two Canadian provinces. Her water’s flow 2,551 miles south from Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. The name Mississippi comes from the Anishinaabe Ojibwe word ‘Messipi’ or ‘Mee-zee-see-bee,’ which means ‘long deep river.’ Everyone on this audio recording contributed their time and talents to protect these waters — none of which could be made possible without the endless hours of in-kind support from Master Audio & Mixing Engineer Brett Huus. May this song help make a difference. Thanks for all you do.” – Larry Long, Producer & Composer
With the “No More Pipeline Blues” music video, we share the beauty of the pristine waters of northern Minnesota, the inspirational leadership of indigenous women and the courage of “water protectors.” Ffilmed over a four-month period by Honor the Earth media artists Sarah LittleRedFeather, River Akemann and myself, Keri Pickett, the footage reflects the spiritual, serious and sometimes unconventional methods used to halt construction of the Enbridge tar sands oil pipeline. From the December 2020 arrival of more than 4,000 workers during the height of the pandemic, the film shows how severe cold, Covid-19 and the coordinated invasion of county and state police have not deterred local resistance against Line 3 by those who believe the it threatens northern Minnesota’s water supply and that “water is life.” As the song sings, “No more, no more, no more pipeline blues. Don’t let Line 3 come through!” – Keri Pickett, Filmmaker & Photographer
“Why do we have to fight to save water when water is life? I hope our work will arouse the populace to think then act to save our water before it’s too late.” — Sharon M. Day, Singer, Executive Director. Indigenous Peoples Task Force
Featured artists in the order of their contribution:
Waubanewquay: Anishinaabe Ojibwe Nation
Winona LaDuke: Anishinaabe Ojibwe Nation
Pura Fé: Tuscarora & Taíno Nations
Carmen (Soni) Moreno: Mayan, Apache & Yaqui Nations
Jennifer Kreisberg: Tuscarora Nation
Day Sisters: (Sharon Day, Julia Uleberg, Charlene Day-Castro, Dorene Day: Anishinaabe Ojibwe Nation
Mumu Fresh: Creek & Choctaw Nations
Indigo Girls: Amy Ray & Emily Saliers
Bonnie Raitt
Joy Harjo, 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States: Muscogee Creek Nation
No More Pipeline Blues Band
Larry Long (Acoustic Guitar)
Dakota Dave Hull (Acoustic Baritone Guitar)
George Parrish (Tremolo Electric Guitar)
Larry Dalton (Upright Bass)
Petar Janjic (Traps)
Pura Fe (Hand Drum)
Jennifer Kreisberg (Hand Drum)
