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Unread 04-02-2017, 03:52 PM
John Isbell John Isbell is offline
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It may have been Aretha Franklin who was asked for her favorite contemporary female singers, around 1990, and said "The bald ones." I do like Sinead O'Connor, and can only imagine her singing "Mother." And Van Morrison I think is tremendous.

returning to neglected gems, how about R.D. Laing's "Life Before Death"? Out of print now, and impossible to find. He declaims the sonnet sequence over a pretty simple orchestration.

"To write a sonnet in this day and age
May seem to some an almost wanton waste
Of ink upon a page."

Or, after a breakup:
"She's gone, all gone. I should have kissed her more."

Some of the sonnets are in his "Sonnets", but I prefer the vinyl.

Cheers,
John
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