Prairie du Rocher

Liner notes

A rustic, acoustic folk song about the resilient village of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, where the echoes of 1722 still linger under the towering limestone bluffs. The lyrics tell the story of the town's enduring spirit, from the ancient French carols of La Guiannée sung on snowy New Year's Eves to the brave locals who cut the creek levee to save their homes from the Great Flood of '93. With a steady acoustic guitar and a mournful fiddle, the vocalist sings of gathering at Lisa's Market Street Grille and walking past the old Creole House, capturing the quiet pride of a historic American Bottom town that refuses to wash away.