Song of the Day: Continuing our ongoing edgy theme, this time on a different plain – a super-sharp, ironic cultural commentary with one of the most talked about videos in years by the US rapper, actor and comedian, aka Donald McKinley Glover Jr.
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Song of the Day: We began the week with Charles Mingus's Moanin', we end it with a song that needs no lyrics – a moaning blues number from 1927 of extraordinary beauty that expresses the pain and sorrow of centuries of black and African-American history, slavery, prejudice and poverty. If yesterday's Louis Jordan number is influential, Johnson's voice and slide guitar sound is even more so
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