Category Archives: music

Buffalo Soldier – Bob Marley – Africa 2019

March 5, 2024 – 1:18 pm

In March 2019 while trekking across the Masaai Plains with the Kili Initiative team, ten young adults from Kibera and East New York, I hiked alone to meeting them for a rock climbing exercise. The dust of Africa under my feet I heard a song on the wind and saw the team atop of rock. […]

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Say it loud, I知 black and I知 proud. 2010

February 22, 2024 – 12:13 pm

Say it loud, I知 black and I知 proud. James Brown sang those words to the entire nation. Even the KKK heard, but back in the 1960s not everyone was listening to the singer of PLEASE PLEASE ME, since black music could only be heard on the far ends of the AM radio spectrum. I twisted […]

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NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR THE BLUES

February 20, 2024 – 10:09 am

No one wants to hear the Blues. Leadbelly or Buddy Guy Easy to figure out why It had to do with the weather. A long winter Not too cold and too littel snow Long and it wasn’t over yet. Spring a month away Everyone ready for the Easter Break The Bahamas, Florida, Mexico Anywhere but […]

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Sly Stone At Franklin Park 1974

February 8, 2024 – 2:51 am

Sly and the Family Stone launched funky soul in the late 60s with the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, and Parliament-Funkadelic. The group hit mega-gold with their 4th LP, STAND and its # 1 hit EVERYDAY PEOPLE. Success was not a friend to Sly. His cocaine habit infected the other band members. He no-showed a […]

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JE T’AIME Brigitte Bardot et Serge Gainsbourg

January 23, 2024 – 8:34 am

The Americans love to dismiss French music and that痴 because they don’t know ‘merde’.

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