New music video from Erik Koskinen puts you in the driver’s seat

View from the cab of a John Deere tractor, from Erik Koskinen's music video for "Down in the Factory." Erik Koskinen / via YouTube

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November 18, 2021

Singer-songwriter Erik Koskinen has released a new song, “Down in the Factory.” The song unabashedly and simultaneously celebrates and laments a working-person’s life, and the song itself brings listeners right into the grind with a driving beat topped with crunchy, dirty-blues guitar. Koskinen’s vocals rattle matter-of-factly over the top with the oft-repeated titular refrain, “Down in the Factory.”

In keeping with the workaday theme, Koskinen invites you right into his work, providing a driver’s point-of-view from the cabs of various work vehicles, including farm machinery, a dump truck and a pickup, likely shot with a smartphone. (Please don’t try this yourself.)

Koskinen will perform on Friday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the James Ballentine “Uptown” VFW Post 246 in Minneapolis. Singer-songwriter Becky Kapell opens.

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External Links

Erik Koskinen - official site

Becky Kapell - official site

This activity is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.