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STAY WOKE: Vital Lessons From Black Musical History (w/ Samuel James)

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The Happiest Song in the World

There's just, that's peppered throughout all of black music. It's in a much more, I don't want to say pure, but maybe more regionalized form at the beginning of capitalism's stranglehold on music. And so yeah, Skip James is a real master of like evoking emotion and that reaching from his guitar into your heart,. He's just, to me, there's nobody else who can do that like him. You know, I still like Credence and I like cream. Well, it's not an either or. Sure.

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