Blog: My Old Kentucky Blog

In 1969, musician and composer Nina Simone wrote these lyrics: “To be young, gifted and black/Oh, what a lovely, precious dream” and “When you feel really low/Yeah, there’s a great truth you should know/When you’re young, gifted and black/Your soul’s intact.” I wish Simone had lived to see THEEsatisfaction (she died in 2003) – I think she’d have loved the Seattle-based duo. For all their ambivalent swagger, the words written by Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White unveil deep engagement with the life and culture around them: “We all watch things morphing every [...]

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