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Lady Sings the Blues | Billie Holiday
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BC_Dittemore
The Weary Blues | Langston Hughes
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Pickpick

With The Weary Blues, Hughes reminds us that human thought is poetry; it just takes a certain skill or instinct to harness it.

Coming away from this I was amazed by how much joy and love for life there is. Despite all the hurdles for a Black artist, for Black people, in the first half of the 19th century, he seemed totally enthralled with life.

Also that cover! Is that not one of the most iconic pictures? I‘d love to have a reprint on my wall.

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lil1inblue
Deep blues | Robert Palmer
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 💙 2mo
Leftcoastzen Nice collection! 2mo
Eggs Awesome collage 💙💙💙 2mo
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S3V3N
Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story | David Ritz, Ray Charles
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#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

Ray, Training Day and Love &Basketball.

readmyeyes I ❤️ love and basketball! 4mo
S3V3N @readmyeyes It‘s such a good movie. 4mo
dabbe Can't believe those didn't make the list either! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🤩🤩🤩 4mo
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Chelsea.Poole
White Tears: A novel | Hari Kunzru
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I neglected to review this after finishing it and it‘s not fresh in my mind. This landed on my radar thanks to #AuldLangSpine from @IndoorDame
This is a biting takedown of cultural appropriation—specifically two music hipsters who use street recordings of black musicians to mashup a new/fake “old” “undiscovered” work from a black jazz musician from decades ago. Things get [spoiler — in comments].
I was a bit confused at the ending but wow!

Chelsea.Poole Things get ghosty and murdery. And possession-ish….?? Little confused on what exactly went down there at the very end. 4mo
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IndoorDame
The Weary Blues | Langston Hughes
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lil1inblue 💙🤩💙 5mo
dabbe 💙🩵💙 5mo
TheSpineView Great choice! 💜 4mo
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Chars
Lady Sings the Blues | Billie Holiday
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Mehso-so

Mark Murphy points out that “Billie Holiday always gave the emotional value that the songwriter had intended. That is why so many songwriters enjoy hearing her.” (Listen to: Strange Fruit & All of Me). This misses that Holiday could have been a hell of a song writer herself. The sentences she write and the phrases she turns in this autobiography show the world as it is, with a nod to it not being how it ought to be. Each line could be a song.

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Jas16
White Tears: A novel | Hari Kunzru
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Well, this took a turn didn‘t it? A seemingly straightforward story about two music obsessed friends twists into a fever dream about cultural appropriation halfway through. Unsettling and challenging , this kept me on my toes. #24in2024