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Lampiou?

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Does anyone one know what 'Lampiou' means? Track 8 off the Latin Blues CD (Blue Guitars). It obviously refers to a person(s) but what?

Anyone have any ideas who Chris is singing about?

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Hi Sprangly!

I think it might be any kind of native latin-american hero(es), who old men are telling tails about? Or just a well-known guy, who did some unforecatable steps? I can only imagine...

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Sounds Good! Thanks Andrew
andrew fischer wrote:Hi Sprangly!

I think it might be any kind of native latin-american hero(es), who old men are telling tails about? Or just a well-known guy, who did some unforecatable steps? I can only imagine...

Best regards to all of you,
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My impression was that it's some kind of a hired gun... Or a guerilla.
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elangelo wrote:My impression was that it's some kind of a hired gun... Or a guerilla.
Yes I also think someone who resist.

You made me listening more thoroughly to the Latin-album. The lyrics are very interesting.
One always discovers new aspects of the whole Blue Guitar. That´s why it is so special to me. Lampiou is very sad. But I think the most melancholy is the Irish-album. When you think you have reached rock bottom when you hear "No more Sorrow" :( you have not yet listen to the next song "While I Remain" :cry: . It is the sadest song I ever have listen to. Does anyone know why Irish-Blues from Chris is so sad?
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Jutta wrote:
elangelo wrote:My impression was that it's some kind of a hired gun... Or a guerilla.
Yes I also think someone who resist.

You made me listening more thoroughly to the Latin-album. The lyrics are very interesting.
One always discovers new aspects of the whole Blue Guitar. Thatґs why it is so special to me. Lampiou is very sad. But I think the most melancholy is the Irish-album. When you think you have reached rock bottom when you hear "No more Sorrow" :( you have not yet listen to the next song "While I Remain" :cry: . It is the sadest song I ever have listen to. Does anyone know why Irish-Blues from Chris is so sad?
Hi Jutta! I agree with you, most of this album's songs are really very sad and black'n'blue. Especially the last track, "Big White Door", which is about Chris nearly dying once as he was terribly ill in 2000. This is my favourite track from all the Blue Guitars.

I think it is probably because Chris's early passed away mother was born in Ireland? Most Chris's songs, dedicated to her were soulfully sad. I suppose it might be the reason.

But after all I still consider "Blues Ballads" to be the saddest album of the set.

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Here's my guess:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampião
Lampião ("Oil Lamp" in Portuguese) was the nickname of "Captain" Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, the most famous leader of a Cangaço band (marauders and outlaws who terrorized the Brazilian Northeast in the 1920s and 1930s).Virgulino was born in June 7, 1897 in the village of Serra Talhada, in the semi-arid backlands (sertão) of the state of Pernambuco, as the third child of José Ferreira da Silva and Maria Lopes, a humble family of peasants. Until 21 years old, he was a hard-working leathercraft artisan (he was also literate and used reading glasses—both quite unusual features for the rough and poor region where he lived). He lived with his family in a deadly feud with other local families until his father was killed in a confrontation with the police in 1919. Virgulino sought vengeance and proved to be extremely violent in doing so. He became an outlaw and was incessantly pursued by the police (whom he called macacos or monkeys). For the next 19 years, he traveled with his small band of cangaceiros (men of cangaço) which was never larger than about 50 heavily armed men on horses wearing leather outfits including hats, jackets, sandals, ammunition belts, and trousers to protect them from the thorns of the caatinga (dry shrubs and brushwood typical of the dry hinterland of Brazil's Northeast.) Their weapons were mostly stolen from the police and paramilitary units and consisted of Mauser military rifles and a variety of smaller firearms including Winchester rifles, revolvers and the prized Mauser semi-automatic pistol. Lampião used to attack small cities and farms in seven states, kill people and cattle, take hostages for ransom, torture, fire-brand, maim, rape, and ransack. He was joined in 1930 by his girlfriend, Maria Déa, nicknamed Maria Bonita (Beautiful Maria), who, like other women in the band, dressed like cangaceiros and participated in many of their actions. They had a daughter in 1932.
Finally, on July 28, 1938, Lampião and his band were betrayed by one of his supporters and were ambushed in one of his hideouts, the Angico farm, in the state of Sergipe, by a police troop armed with machine guns. In a quick battle, Lampião, Maria Bonita and 9 of his troops were killed. Their heads were cut and sent off to Salvador, the capital of Bahia, for examination by specialists at the State Forensic Institute, and later, for public exhibition, and only after 1971 were the families of Lampião and Maria Bonita able to reclaim the preserved heads to finally bury them.
Thus started the legend of Lampião and Maria Bonita, who became subjects of innumerable folk stories, books, popular pamphlets (cordel literature), songs, movies, and a number of TV soap operas, with all the elements of drama, passion, and violence typical of "Far West" stories. By many, he was considered a folk hero, a kind of Robin Hood and the head of a peasant revolt against the all-dominant, feudal farmers of the region (the so-called coronels). The fact remains that he was the most notorious of the many rural bandits (in his own admission) that infested the poor hinterland of Northeast Brazil. Lampião was mentioned in the lyrics of "Ratamahatta", song of Brazil metal band Sepultura, from their Roots record.
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This history told to him for Martin wife
She is from brazil
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