Scott Holstein - "Black Water"

Scott Holstein - "Black Water"
Songwriters: Scott Holstein
Publisher: Scott Holstein Music, BMI

Acapella. Story of the Buffalo Creek Disaster.

"Growing up in West Virginia coal country many tragic stories have been absorbed in my psyche. Unfortunately, "Black Water" is a real life account of actual history. I spent many of my early days visiting my musical mentor Virgil Osborn on Buffalo Creek located in Logan, West Virginia. His father told me of the devastation and destruction which happened on Feb. 26, 1972. The disaster happened a couple years before my time on earth but the vivid pictures and thoughts of those lives unneccessarily lost still remain ever on my mind. I was strolling along the Little Coal River in Boone County, West Virginia when the words to the song came to me. It was like someone was telling me their story from the dark waters. The song is still one of my most requested today." -Scott Holstein