Thanks to Susan Klopfer, I found my way over to this video from the new, about to be released, record by Mavis Staples. I think I'll be stopping in at Newbury Comics on my lunch hour tomorrow. Now if only there was a way for me to get to the Apollo Theater in May; damn that show looks good.
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Folks I’ve got them hungry blues
And nothin’ in this to lose
People tellin’ me to choose
Between dyin’ and lyin’ and keep
on cryin’
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain’t you heard the news
There’s another thing to choose
A brand new world clean and fine
Where nobody’s hungry
And there’s no color line
A thing like that’s worth
anybody dyin’
I ain’t got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
James P. Johnson
Langston Hughes
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