It's an awesome song. Funny, I saw a New Orleans supergroup of sorts called Dragon Smoke at Stage One in Fairfield a few years ago and Ivan Neville, a pretty tough dude, covered it. He introduced it by saying something like "All you dudes out there, you know you sing this when it comes on the radio and you're driving in your car alone." And I absolutely do (but not afraid to sing it with others around either...).
Sometime in the past two years or so it dawned on me while singing it that what she's describing is actually an avalanche, or snow slide, but not a landslide. Since that time I have floated this theory twice when it came on around a fire with different groups of friends, and both times much comedy ensued as we tried to sing it with "avalanche" in place of "landslide" each time the refrain came around.
