Lee Ward
The Independent
GREENUP —
A local musician has taken on a life-and-death issue in a new song and video available on YouTube.
Singer-songwriter Larry Pancake’s video “You Don’t Understand” has been seen by about 9,000 viewers on YouTube.
He said he wrote the song, which is about young people getting killed in car accidents, more than a year ago after seeing so many needless accidents.
“I was saddened to see deaths in the paper of young people for whatever reason. Parent are not supposed to bury their children,” he said, adding the song happened naturally.
“I was driving past the place where a young person had died and saw a parent out putting a cross. It hit me then,” he said. “I didn’t know him, but felt so bad for his dad. I think about it every time I go by there.”
Pancake said a friend helped him create the video.
“It seems that people listen more when they have something to watch with it,” he said, noting the song was meant to address the various reasons for fatal car accidents but the emphasis turned more to texting and driving.
The singer said he’s hoping to reach more people every day.
“The response has been great,” he said, but added he’d like to “see it go viral.”
He said he might include the song, which was recorded at Thunder Bay Studios in Ashland, on his next recording project, which might be an album available only online.
For now, the video can been seen at larrypancake.com and is for sale on the local record label 9livesrecords.com.
“It is very sad and very sobering and I think some people don’t want to think about it, but the truth is that it happens,” Pancake said.
LEE WARD can be reached at lward@dailyindependent.com or (606) 326-2661.
