Hey What's Up- back to songwriting. Inspired by politics, X-Ray Spex, Love (as in Arthur Lee), Erykah Badu's new record, making good music, my friend Michael Patrick MacDonald's book "Easter Rising" out now in soft cover, and searching for moments of true expression. I was just listening to these old recordings by the 1960's and 70's folk/psychedelic/blues group Love. The singing is sometimes out of tune, but real. Guitars are often out of time, but not time corrected and pitch corrected on the computer. We need to bring back imperfection. Then we hear someone in their true state. I feel like I am experiencing Arthur Lee when he is singing. He might be rough, but it's packed with feeling. Love was an early "blender" of musical traditions and one of the early integrated bands. Also revisiting late 70's teenage punk with X-Ray Spex, whose singer Poly Styrene sang about consumerism and disaffection with such poetry I wanted to be lost in the underground. Erykah Badu just released her political, funkadelic inspired "New Amerykah" a an opportune time.

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