This is a beautiful tune from Robert Cray, one of our all-time great blues musicians. The video is on a theme we can relate to — please go listen to it here. Here’s a snip from the American Friends Service Committee Web site where you can find the Cray video.
New Music Video Features “Eyes Wide Open” Boots
Last November 1, as the sun rose over a farm near Dover, New Hampshire the Eyes Wide Open crew once again began laying out more than two thousand pairs of boots representing the U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq. But this was not a standard stop on the nation-wide tour of AFSC’s acclaimed anti-war exhibit.
The boots were being prepared to play a role in a music video for blues musician Robert Cray’s poignant new song, “Twenty,” telling the story of a young soldier, who questions his mission in Iraq, but is killed before his deployment is up.
The video, directed by Robert Cray’s wife, Susan Turner-Cray stars Aidan Delgado, a 23-year-old Iraq-war veteran who served in Nasiriyah and at Abu Ghraib prison, before securing conscientious objector status and returning to the U.S. David Goodman, one of the Eyes Wide Open tour managers, has a cameo role in the video as a Vietnam Veteran.
