Another mass shooting in the States. This one at a grocery store about three miles from my house. A grocery store in a parking lot that my wife frequents for volunteer work in the summer. She sets up a table for voter registration and obtaining signatures for a variety of state/federal legislative measures including climate change, immigration reform, and yes, gun control.
10 people died. This is the 107th mass shooting in the States since January.
The average death total from gun violence in the States in 110 per day.
Will this ever end?
Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles from 1966 fits my mood today…
Hi @Lorro1 It looks like your images are quite large in file size, so if you can reduce them (perhaps by 50%) they will upload more quickly and still be good enough quality for the forum.
Been streaming a few of the recent Matthew Halsall recordings lately.
This is my cherry pick of the bunch, vinyl repress coming late April
Fletcher Moss Park
What a band! After Deep Purple in the lates 60’s and Led Zeppelin this lot are the next band I’d have loved to see live, especially with RJD on vocals. Too young sadly.
Casual listeners could be forgiven for thinking that Jimmy Cliff only ever recorded songs like Many Rivers To Cross, Harder They Come et el. His back catalogue is frustratingly populated by ubiquitous “Best of” compilations. As good as those songs unquestionably are, he recorded many fine albums which get overlooked, not helped by the seemingly perpetual unavailability of many of these records.
This is one of many, from 1978
Give Thanx
AllMusic Review by Alex Henderson
Many of the great reggae singers who emerged in the '60s and '70s were Rastafarians, but Jimmy Cliff is an exception. While the absence of Rastafarian terminology in Cliff’s songs is one of the things that sets him apart from other reggae artists, his message of Black liberation has been well received by Rastas. Cliff proves that you don’t have to be a Rastafarian to be a reggae star, and he also proves that a reggae artist doesn’t have to perform reggae 100% of the time. 1978’s Give Thanx, in fact, has as much to do with R&B as it does with reggae. While “Stand Up and Fight Back” and “Wanted Man” are reggae gems, “You Left Me Standing At The Door” and “She Is A Woman” are southern-style soul treasures that would have fit right in on a Stax/Volt release. And “Meeting in Africa” is the type of English-language African pop one would expect to come from a South African artist rather than a Jamaican reggae singer. Cliff’s eclectic nature proves to be an asset throughout this fine LP.
