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Five Songs For The End of The Week
It’s Friday and the year is almost over. 2020 has been 2020. Find joy and peace where you can. Here are five songs to end your week on a high note. Grace Jones +Disco = Perfection. Add Iggy Pop, ASAP Rocky, and Tyler, The Creator in a video ad featuring Cerrone and Ms. Jones’, Disco…
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The One and Only Yola
Yola’s “Walk Through Fire” is an album I can’t stop recommending to people. It is gorgeous and generous, entrancing from the first note to the last. Yola’s voice and guitar playing are tender, precise, and powerful. She commands her musical gifts with singular grace. Yola has the rare ability to create the simultaneous and contradictory…
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Little Richard is Gone
The final member of the Rock N’ Roll triumvirate has passed. May Little Richard rest in peace and paradise with the ancestors and may the memories of those moved and transformed by his music be long. Little Richard was a righteously vainglorious genius. He was the blueprint for the energy, the showmanship, and the verve…
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If you haven’t heard Lizzo’s “Juice,” are you really living?
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The Passionate Listener
Sturgill Simpson. Source: NPR.org Sturgill Simpson is a seductive storyteller. He captivates the listener from the first line of a song. Simpson uses his baritone deftly; crafting phrasing that creates a shared sense of comfort and intimacy with the listener. Whether he sings about the vagaries of love, the pain of being broke, or the…
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C’est la vie
Chuck Berry reviewed punk, new wave, and ska records and essentially came to this conclusion: My friends and I already did this, but thanks for trying. http://diffuser.fm/chuck-berry-reviews-punk-records/ #chuckberry #cestlavie
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Women Talking About
“I can’t run out of different ideas. I am different. When can I run out of me?” -Grace Jones
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The Passionate Listener
3 by Denise La Salle: Queen of The Party In October, The Jackson Sun reported Blues and R&B legend Denise LaSalle is recovering from a leg amputation. May Ms. LaSalle experience a healthy recovery. Enjoy some of her party classics and wish her well. Lick It Before You Stick It Your Husband Is Cheatin’ On…