Reparations, eh?

There's been a good bit of press surrounding Ta Nehisi Coate's calls for "reparations" for the descendants of slaves here in America, been going on for a while now. Every time I see this somewhere in my news feed, I have the same reaction:

Get. In. Line.

If we want to go down that road (and we should), we are going to have to deal with the out-and-out genocide that was perpetrated against those folks who had been living here for centuries first. Then we can get to the slavery issue.

You don't get to jump to the head of the line just because.....

Doctor John

Mac Rebennac left us yesterday but he leaves an enormous musical legacy, here's a forgotten corner of it.
Just how Bob got him to play on one tune for Against The Wind only he knows, when I first got the album and read the liner notes I was rather jaw-dropped that he got Mac to do the piano on this out-and-out Motor City rocker.
Bob got a Grammy and Mac helped!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3TzSNk9kPU

Les and Eddie

Weird. Sometimes a song just nails something and you can hear it for decades and it remains relevant.

From "Swiss Movement" done live at Montreaux way back when I was in High School....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pejJxEs_v-s

Yeah, tryin' to make it real Compared To What?