Decades ago, it gave me shiver when i first heard it, and understood the lyrics....still does...even, gladly, those days are gone...
"Strange Fruits" performed by Billie Holiday
"Strange Fruits" performed by Billie Holiday
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https://progressive.org/latest/strange-fruit-caused-the-murder-of-billie-holiday-180220/ Dont even know what to say...
I feel your pain...am born austrian....
There is not much that could be said...except... nowdays americans hopefully remember Billie...not only as a great Artist...but foremost as the couragious woman that risked her life, and propably gave it, to change things for the better
There is not much that could be said...except... nowdays americans hopefully remember Billie...not only as a great Artist...but foremost as the couragious woman that risked her life, and propably gave it, to change things for the better
Alison Krauss: Forget About It
Either the title track or the whole album. So much sad in one place is quite cathartic...
Either the title track or the whole album. So much sad in one place is quite cathartic...
Cortez the killer - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Thinking about what "civilized" Europeans did to the Peoples of the New World is very sad.
Thinking about what "civilized" Europeans did to the Peoples of the New World is very sad.
Sonic Youth opened for Neil Young and Crazy Horse at the Rosemount Horizon in suburban Chicago on the first show of their Weld tour. Took, my wife to that one.
Julian Cope. The Armenian Genocide. Nothing I've heard, except for maybe Strange Fruit, comes close.