I caught this via The Atlantic Wire, and they’re right that it’s brilliant, but it’s confident and unabashed, too. Hathaway’s confidence in the trying of something is noteworthy and admirable. We’re in danger of becoming an oh-so-serious, earnest, and proper people. I don’t believe that the danger will come to pass– I’m a great optimist…
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Monday Music: Joan Armatrading’s Kind Words and a Real Good Heart
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Monday Music: Miles Davis – New Rhumba from Birth of the Cool
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Monday Music: Anita O’Day from “Jazz on a Summer’s Day”
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Monday Music: Bob Dylan’s Hurricane
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Here’s a protest song, about boxer Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter’s conviction (later overturned), but I’ve not posted it for a particular message. (The case is controversial, with conflicting opinions about his guilt; I don’t know.) Instead, it’s here because Dylan’s a powerful storyteller. I was listening to one of his albums recently, and the song reminded…