Song during the credits
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PhantomNocona — 20 years ago(May 11, 2005 04:31 PM)
Is there anyone else on here who noticed that the final song is talking about going back to Muhlenburg County which is nowhere near the town of Jackson?
Jackson is in Breathitt County which is in far Eastern Kentucky, and Muhlenburg county is far Western. Nowhere close to each other except for both of them being in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
On a side note, I love this movie. I lived in Kentucky (Hopkinsville) for 5 years, and I still claim it as one of my homes. Plus, my wife and I bought this movie for my father-in-law since he's actually from Jackson.
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Falcon-28 — 20 years ago(August 08, 2005 05:07 PM)
No, it's Muhlenberg, and you got the title right, but that song is by John Prine. Proof is here :
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david-watkins — 19 years ago(July 08, 2006 01:23 AM)
Its Muhlenberg County I grew up there The Song is Paradise which is funny because there is a TVA Plant in Muhlenberg county called Paradise Valley Plant Kind of ironic it makes me wonder if Prine was talking about the plant or if he was talking about Muhlenberg County being beautiful which it is prolly both because Muhlenberg County was very attractive before the stripmines came and ruined it which is why the song is kind of sad but he mentions several locations that are real such as Rochester Dam and Averys Hill and its the home of the Everly Brothers yep
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mamacat76 — 19 years ago(January 08, 2007 10:21 AM)
John Prine IS talking about the Paradise Valley Plant! I'm a BIG fan of Prine's.. seen him 9 times.. watched every interview.. and he IS talking about that plant.in a bad sense. How it has raped the comminity there of it's beauty, etc. We lived in Hopkinsville, KY (the armpit of the universe) for 1 year and drove up to Muhlengerg County just to see the very things John was singing about. And the air DID smell of snakes!!!!!
And supposedly (from the folks who live there.. this story IS about Muhlenberg County in WESTERN Kentucky. not EASTERN Kentucy where the movie takes place.
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event_audio_technician — 11 years ago(August 08, 2014 03:07 AM)
Everybody got pretty close (if you add them all up, and know which parts to ommit). The song is "Paradise" by John Prine, F.Y.I. the man there in the credits as it's playing is the one and only John Prine (not credited). The song is actually about the town Paradise of which the "Paradise" coal plant is pretty much the only existing stucture to speak of now. The town of Paradise was offically decommissioned in 1967 after the near uninhabitable conditions resulting mainly from the strip mining operations. The towns original placement on the map was on the Green river in Muhlenburg Co. approx. 10 miles North of present day Greenville in Western Kentucky.