Six tracks of American roots music for a turn-based strategy game about resource extraction destroying the very land you're fighting over. "Honkytonk" and "Ragtime" name their genres directly. "Marching Blues" and "Smokey Blues" provide two flavors of the blues.
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"Cottonpicker" adds rustic texture. "TBS Leader" stands for Turn-Based Strategy Leader — the only track that acknowledges the game's actual genre. The American roots music palette is unexpected for a strategy game, but Greed Corp's environmental destruction theme makes the dustbowl-era musical association fitting.
Six tracks that score capitalism's self-destructive tendencies with the music of the American working class. Greed Corp's gameplay loop — harvesting land until it literally collapses into the void — found its musical match in genres born from labor, loss, and the complicated relationship between people and the land they work.