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JUST MY IMAGINATION...

“Bruh, you just be connecting stuff...” Maybe. But isn’t that what the human mind does at its most creative?

In the space of about 24 hours, Tina Turner dies on Bob Dylans birthday just before the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder...

Here goes:

~ Ike & Tina Turner release their version of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s "Proud Mary." 12 year old Vance hears a song that seemed so country and white (stay with me) turned into a raucous Black rock anthem.

~ That same year, I hear Roberta Flack, another Black female singer, do Bob Dylan’s “Just Like A Woman”, not only cementing the idea in my ignorant broke little head that Black people could indeed successfully remold art, but that “OMG, there’s some kind of mind-blowing poetry story telling going on”. I would never have heard if not for her warm-voiced reimagining of Dylan’s classic, which I originally heard as more of that country-assed-nasal-white people stuff (stay with me).
Look at me learning that race didn’t and did matter at the same time.

~ On May 25th 2020 George Floyd's murder reminded me that race does matter, that there is violence in the world, that Tina Turner’s domestic violence story and that in my childhood house are as historical record as proof need be, and Happy Birthday but hours earlier to the author of “Hurricane” (look up those lyrics).

Don’t worry. I came full circle. Even then I mis-heard the chorus to Creedence’s 1969 hit “Down On The Corner" as:

Down on the corner
Crowded in the street
All the White boys in the band
Playing the Negro’s happy beat

Hey, it was 1969, and I had quite an imagination. Great hopes too.

P.S. - Yesterday was also the anniversary of Duke Ellington's death. Don’t get me started...