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Buried lede: Ray Charles was color blind

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Ray Charles is blind in everything else, too !

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Even if I didn't want to add it, here it is: ''...If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth." John 9:41

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I am not sure this is true, but I do believe it. If you are blind, you will NEVER be the victim of a serial killer

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In other news: The National news is breathless reporting that a city named for a mythical bird that bursts into flames is having a summer heat wave

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Summer Global Warming time. Note all global warming started with the election of Regan and continues with the presence of Trump.

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That is in the dessart.....

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If the great Charlie Pride was alive today, he’d love this post.

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True dat as Mr. Pride sang in my rig for thousands of miles.

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My husband traveled the road, but not in an 18-wheeler. I gave him a Charlie Pride album on an anniversary one year. He liked whispering Bill Anderson also.

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I saw Charlie in Duluth Minn. then saw Marvin Rainwater the same weekend for a great music break away from diesel smoke.

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POLL: Finally, something that can't be blamed on the CIA!

All the left's histerics over this are actually pretty enjoyable. Don't they remember how Clapton, the Rolling Stones and other artists have shared the stage, performing with black blues artists they "stole" from - both raising their profile and their income? As you said, this is nothing new.

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Indeed. Stevie Wonder could see that one coming.

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And all of the relevant players of the Blues starting in the 60's have payed heavy homage to all of the players of African descent over the years. A highlight of a man and his hero Albert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJgI_R2Mk84

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Thanks for the memory! Stevie and Double Trouble was the first live music heard at the old Rome Inn after I moved to Austin way back in '78 - when Austin was lots of fun and still had a small town feel. I escaped many years ago!

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You are very welcome, especially since you escaped the communists :-D

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Hippies were still there, it was ironic that the new IBM office was on the site of the Armadillo World Headquarters….I think Oat Willies is just purple haze now….

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I also saw many artists at the old armadillo world headquarters! Didn’t know what built on their old lot

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Yeah - and what about SRV - a Right-handed guitar player - stealing licks from a lefty?! (I happen to be a left-handed guitar player; we're always discriminated against...)

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Left handed and upside down; I just love watching Albert perform(and Stevie).

I am left-handed and play guitar right-handed :-D. Always had Strats, but recently bought a Gibson SG... Wow. Humbuckers are HOT.

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That was Hendrix. Lefty playing a right handed guitar. Like no one else. Ever.

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And making it look easy.

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No kidding. It is almost like G-d put Hendrix here to teach everyone else how to play and then took him back. Clapton, who was top-dog in '67, admits he almost had a nervous breakdown after watching Jimi play the first time.

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Roger McGuinn and Roy Clark are also good examples of guibox mastery taken to another level.

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What an arrogant and asinine time we live in. Judging people and events from the past through the lens of our present foolish times is so disrespectful, narcissistic and childish. I could have 20, 30 even 40 years left, I really can't live the rest of my life like this!

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Methinks the DIE overlords want to destroy music as it is something that allows us to transcend this mortal coil we live upon, and speaks to our hearts and souls.

They want to put us all in claustrophobic little boxes and cut off our spirit’s oxygen.

Music defies them.

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I think a lot of things defy them. That is why the leftists stay so angry. They make me tired with all the drama. If I threw a temper tantrum like that, my parents would have smacked me into next week.

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Now I know we are kin!

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Standing O for madam Chairman! That is truer than we know. Klaus Schwab is the chigger in the woodpile.

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Correct! Commies destroy anything intrinsically beautiful. For a hot minute a few Baroque, Classical, and Romantic composers were targeted. Haven’t heard much about that dust up in a while.

Now looks like Country music is targeted.

As long as musicians have an instrument, a memorized repertoire, and the breath that God lends us, music of all genres will never die.

And even if the destroyers put me in a cold, dark cell sans piano, my mind is free to play all the Bach I want.

But commies gonna try.

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Another good post Bentley man from Poca. I for one am fed up with the left complaining, advocating, lying, stirring up conflict and pushing their evil and wicked “diversity” and other quackery. They push their diversity but not diversity of thought, belief, etc!

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Funny how when they get through explaining diversity, it is more like Lock Step, or goose-step.

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And the rinos run groveling trying to appease the crazy bastards…

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Arnold Ziffel (the pig) from Green Acres said more intelligent things than anything I ever read from the Washington Post.

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Arnold Ziffel was regularly replaced because as a pig, he did what pigs do, he grew. That noted, every one of the pigs that played Arnold was more intelligent than anyone who writes for the Washington (com)post.

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Arnold was the smartest character on Green Acres.

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SL you are probably correct, he almost got Mr Ed’s lucrative contract in one episode. However, I think Mr Haney was the true genius in Hooterville.

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One must remember that as in so many other artistic pursuits, what's permissible for blacks is not permissible for whites. As you mention, Ike and Tina Turner with, Proud Mary; and Luke Combs with, Fast Car.

This is because blacks are so talented, as Jamie Foxx told us:

https://youtu.be/Pl36yQZglm8

"She is an artist and an individual, not some widget know only by her sex and color."

Apparently not, Brother Don - at least, per the cognoscenti and theologians of that which is currently woke.

All Jan Diehm and Jada Watson have done is demonstrate the truth of the cliché that there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

"Maybe Old Neil Young should have covered Gibson’s Sweet Dreams and avoided that whole Southern Man thing."

Are you kidding? Neil Young, Canadian, was morally superior to everyone in America, and needed to make sure the rest of America knew it.

"Afrofuturist"

What in the hell is THAT?

'Complicated' has to be leftists' favourite word, the implication being that only they and others so like-minded can discuss the topic and divine the true meaning behind it.

"Heaven help DC if the American people become united again instead of diversified."

Can that happen without a revolution that throws off the globalist-funded Political Class that is the prime mover behind the effort to divide us at every opportunity?

The Bezos post screws up every story, and ought to be held to account.

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I second that: "Afrofuturist" What in the hell is THAT?

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It is a made-up word. Somebody somewhere told him he could be anything he wanted to be. He chose poorly.

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Mama would have washed my mouth out with Lifebuoy soap if I ever said the WORD that black people call each other!!

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Mine used Lava….

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Yep, we are kin

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"It did not go well because if there is one thing DC journalists know less than guns, it is country music."

Peeps - You will learn a lot from Donnie Boy's script. Learn well. Great piece.

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"Fast Car" is a universal song. That's why I, a girl born in "twanging country" and only listened to AM radio until I got old enough to buy my own "boombox" and control my own dial, am a Tracy Chapman fan and have only barely heard of Luke Combs. (I've heard his version. I like Tracy's better, but I don't care. Covers are covers.)

As for Tracy Chapman not "making it." In 1989, the year of her debut album, on which was "Fast Car," she was nominated for six Grammies and won three: best new artist, best contemporary folk album, and best female pop vocal performance. And she wasn't a one hit wonder. Over the years she would go on to be nominated ten more times, and win once more for the song "Give Me One Reason." All this is to say, Tracy Chapman arrived and is very well recognized. (And she's worth about $6 million. Not much in the music world, but more than most have.)

Finally, this point, if Chapman does indeed own the rights to "Fast Car," Luke Combs did not cover it without her permission. So basically they (a bunch of whiny white liberals) are once again assuming they know better than a "queer black woman" what is and is not in her best interests.

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Good zinger in your last sentence!!!

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Lawd have mercy. Looks like I've got another cousin up in here!

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WaPo ain’t nothin but a hound dog a cryin all the time

Ain’t never caught a rabbit and

Ain’t no friend of mine.

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You are playing by ear, son. Good ear.

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When I read crap like this I get mad.....

"Dismissing Chapman as a “black queer woman” insults her ability to make it in folk music"

It is almost as if people who start out an introduction like that is making an excuse for why they are going to fail.

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Why can't she just be a singer? Why does everything have to be broken down into a grievance category?

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Ray Charles was a man who also played the piano.

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Mom had a friend who was blind due to childhood diabetes. That woman played the piano beautifully and always was dressed to the 9's with make-up, etc. My sister and I would turn off the living room lights and play our recital pieces in the dark--pretending to be blind.

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I believe Ray Charles was excellent as rhythm and blues pianists were at the top of their game from the 40's to the 90's a look though I love hearing it even today. Classic blues and boogie. The good old days.

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Do you remember Dave (Baby) cortez on the organ from the 60s-70S?

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I'm sorry, I don't. Might you remember the titles of his music?

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That has become the norm, it is easier to fail than to keep after your dreams.

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Personally, I think that the two (liberal) women who devised that term (Cultural Appropriation) should shame themselves as two completely useless lives--and they aren't the only ones either.

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Life IS hard. Its even harder if you're stupid. That happens to people who stop the crossing mid-stream.

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I read the article attached to this one and I got the R. A. about the number of times she said "black queer," I wanted to swerve in front of that writer's car, stomp the brake and back up on her and sue her for rear ending my heap! I watch too much Judge Judy!

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I'll help....

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You nailed the whole thing in the last sentence. Bezos and his crew are clueless about different styles of music or even any appropriation of them. His main goal is the continued erosion of unity in our country. The elite really does want a divided nation and creates it by fueling racism and hatred.

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The phrase diversity, equity and inclusion is their misspelling of DIE! I used to tell my big brother to Shut Up. He said, "If I shut up, how will you get in?"

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I loved Chapman’s song when it first debuted all those years ago and I had no idea that she was a “black queer woman” until reading your article today. Back then, no one in the music industry felt the need to broadcast their sexual preferences to their audiences. Not mentioned is that Chapman’s music was also popular in the rock genre - I first heard it on a rock station out of DC.

To answer Margot below, I read in another article that Chapman says she is honored to have her song covered by a country star. Finally, I have a question -

Are the BLM types out there still claiming that Beethoven was black?

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Yep, and Jesus, too. They have no idea about Jewish people in the first century AD in the middle east agrarian society. But they don't care.

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My family has a TN Cherokee branch, am partial to TN Ernie Ford….

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Amen, and none of that side of my family would talk about it. We are still trying to track down her mom and dad.

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My first cousin has higher cheekbones and a better marlin fishing tan than that Warren woman aka Fauxcahontas.

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ok, so I snuck an afternoon half cup of coffee. I wont be drinking it.

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My grandmother would get steamed when we went to Alfred’s deli on Stella Link in Houston and they’d start speaking Yiddish to her….was so funny….

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I wonder if the Wapo asked Tracey Chapman what she thought of cashing royalty checks thanks to Luke Combs, long after stardom touched her?

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