A Good Crazy.......

What is a good crazy? Awhile back I came across this video, courtesy of Ta-Nehesi Coates. Rev. Joseph Lowery is a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement who struggled alongside Dr. King in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Thank God there were some good crazy folk to stand up against racial oppression--risking their lives at the hands of rabid racists like Bull Connor. Lowery mentions Harriet Tubman. What a good crazy woman! In a few days we'll celebrate the birth of another good crazy one--Jesus of Nazereth. He's the one who went around healing people, walking on water, raising a man from the dead, and challenging the money changers in the temple. He's the one who took three loaves and fed the multitudes and stood up to Pontius Pilate. That's a good crazy.

(An earlier posting of this video was of better quality......)

A Change Is Gonna Come

Anthony Hamilton's version......

Anthony Hamilton - The Point Of This All - Ellen DeGeneres Show (12-16-08) - HQ

I bought the album yesterday. In a few days I may have a review. Initially, I like several songs, but I'm not sure if the whole album grips me. This song, I'm Cool, was a hit with me as a single. Listen to his background singers. I always liked them--such harmony!

Love and Happiness

In these times, wishing everyone the spirit of love and happiness. You provide your own contexts and meanings.

December 2008

The Point Of It All....

It's not about politics this time. Anthony Hamilton has a new CD--The Point of it All--scheduled for release on December 16. I can't wait. In a much earlier post I wrote about his big hit, Charlene, and how mesmerized I was one early morning when I heard and saw the video. Ever since, I've listened to all of his music.

The album is getting good reviews from pre-release concerts. I'm Cool, a single and video about old fashioned and inexpensive love dates, has already been a hit. About other tracks, early reports are that he maintains the soulful, gritty Bill Withers, Al Green, Bobby Womack sound that comes through in earlier projects. Still, the music is upbeat and contain the modern ingredients for making it on the music scene these days.

Needless to say, I've marked December 16th on my calendar.

SHE SAID WHAT?

I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.

--Harriet Tubman