Tag: C.L.R. James
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Top 40 Over 40.33: Blemish
I think I’ve found my personal record of the year. It’s Roberta Flack’s First Take. There’s a song on it called I Told Jesus that joins Jesus is Waiting by Al Green as the only songs that give me a feel for what it is about Christianity that moves people. (I was raised in a…
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Top 40 over 40.17: A Different Kind of Swans Song
Most of the musicians I’ve written about in this series are ones that were important to me when I was younger because of work they did themselves when they were young. I’ve written about records they did after turning 40 that either came close to or equaled the quality I heard in their earlier recordings.…
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Other John Davises.1: My life as an 18th century batsman
It can be a bit strange having a ubiquitous name. But it can also be kinda fun. This post is the first in a series of characters I found on the net that have the same name as me. If you believe in previous lifetimes, you may even believe I could have lived some of…
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