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Although the opening track is extremely traditional musically, it's topical lyrics make it quite contemporary. The song is about a situation that way too many people are struggling with these days -"Just Getting' By". As Maurice says "Day after the day it's the same old game, money goes...
“Walking in the Sand”, of course, has a darker sense to it; that sense of finality and ending which is also apocalyptic-- although, again, in contemporary culture there's this confusion between apocalypse and Armageddon. But if we're referring to the unveiling of all the masks and lies...
Essentially, this is an attempt to demonstrate the subtitle: “How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church” (the above quotation does show he’s not talking about a threat to the throughout the world—or the future—but the contemporary church in the U.S., an impo...
Led Zeppelin retain Blind Willie’s admission that he ultimately is to blame, but add Robert Johnson’s sense of despair.However, they shift the focus from religion to a more contemporary one.Their lyrics include “that monkey on my back”, a commonly used reference to addiction. And “...
(Billboardmemorably published a contemporary think piece titled "Rock-a-Bye-Bye: Genre Left Behind in '90.") Then the Black Crowes arrived, piloting a way-back machine from a home base atKeith Richards'Villa Nellcôte. Maybe most of this had been done before – certainly "Hard to ...
This cross section of the last seven decades of international cinema includes masterpieces by titans like Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon), Federico Fellini (8½), and Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander); contemporary art-house hits by directors such as Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), Michael Haneke (...
(Mack Avenue, 2021), blends jazz with R&B and gospel influences, drawing from his Detroit roots. The album also incorporates musical traditions from Cuba, Nigeria, and Guadeloupe. “The concept was about capturing sounds that lift your spirit, inspired by Coltrane, Aretha, Marvin Gaye, and ...