Alice's Restaurant, 50 Thanksgivings Later
Arlo Guthrie's now-classic song was released in 1967, but the story begins, as the song explains, two years earlier. And 50 years into the story, its themes are strangely and sadly still relevant. And the movement it appeals for is no less needed.
Music Around the World: Ripple
In honor of the Grateful Dead's 50th anniversary, Playing for Change reprises the Grateful Dead's 1970 classic, "Ripple."
Alabama Shakes: Future People
Alabama Shakes has a unique soulful rock sound. This is from their new (second) album, Sound & Color, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200.
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Music Is My Ammunition
Playing for Change video of Bob Marley's classic of hope and forgiveness, featuring Mermans Kenkosenki, Roberto Luti, as well as family members from Cuba and Jamaica including Stephen Marley.
books
Patti Smith: Her Private Papers
Legendary rock star Patti Smith's look back expresses supremely well the tentativeness of every movement forward, the sense of following a path so risky, so sketchily perceptible, that at any moment one might go astray and never be heard from again, never perhaps even hear from the deepest part of oneself again. For a book that ends in success, it is acutely sensitive to that abyss of failure that haunts the attempt to become any kind of artist.
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