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Consider This :: Money Is Flowing For Big Banks. For Unemployed Americans, It’s About To Be Cut Off

This podcast, formerly Coronavirus Daily, exposes the grave injustice of corporate welfare flowing from the federal government to banks while ordinary working people suffer little to no help

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Album Review: National Freedom by Lonnie Holley

Album: National Freedom
Artist: Lonnie Holley
Release Date: July 3, 2020
Label:Jagjaguwar
Favorite Tracks:

• Like Hell Broke Away
• Do T Rocker

Thoughts:

Lonnie Holley of Alabama works in many art disciplines, visual media and sculpture, as well as experimental blues music.  This album collects music recorded in a 2014 session. His music is rooted in blues with his gravelly vocals reminiscent of Howlin’ Wolf but his performance draws on the improvisation of jazz (particularly on the 11-minute final track “So Many Rivers (The First Time)”).  The result is oft-time weird, but not inscrutable, and evocative of deep human emotions.

Rating: ****