Country music star Martina McBride performed last night at our cities Riverbend Festival. She is one of my favorite vocalists in the genre and her show last night was great. I couldn’t get any good pictures from last night because I was too far away from the stage and I was watching her primarily on a video screen which too was a bit far away.

So I am posting a video from early in her career. “Independence Day” is a song about a woman being free from an abusive situation in her life. There is little to do with patriotism here, its about survival.

The video was shot in Murfreesboro, TN in 1993 when I was a student at Middle Tennessee State University. It was kind of neat to see familiar places in on the square area of the ‘Boro.