Maybe like me, you spent the week crying to Dolly tunes? In 1996 Dolly Parton covered Yusuf/Cat Stevens “Peace Train” for her album Treasures. Dolly heard the South African band Ladysmith Black Mambazom’s tight zulu harmonies and flying vocalizations in a Lifesavers commercial and reached out to collaborate with them. Dolly said “Peace Train” reflected […]
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I awoke at 3am, perhaps, because of the NYT interactive graphic “477 Days, 521 Mass shootings, Zero Action from Congress” I read before bed. Unable to return to sleep, I went and dusted off a sermon from 2015. Sadly, it was easy to rework it for another shooting. I awoke grieving for Las Vegas, […]
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