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There’s nothing we love more than opening our inbox to find an email message announcing a new edition of Live Phish. They don’t call this day Good Friday for nothin’. This time we get the first official release from the Europe ’98 tour, namely the show from July 6, 1998 at the Lucerna Theater in Prague.
And you don’t even have to wait much longer to download the show, as the professionally-mastered MP3s and FLACs will be available at Livephish.com on Tuesday. Those who prefer their music in physical form can order the CD package at Dry Goods. Read on after the jump for the full press release, but first check out the phenomenal Ghost from the new release:
I hate the fact that music is divided among race lines. I hate that there is “black” music and “white” music. The musical color line serves only two purposes that I can see: 1) institutional racism within the music industry, and 2) lazy marketing departments within the music industry.
Now, I’m not a religious man, but I like to think that God doesn’t much care about the race of musicians. I like to think He gave Jimi Hendrix mad skills as kind of a joke on white people, and He gave Eminem mad skills as a joke on black people.
But what has the Big Man done to help His children sing? What gifts did He lay upon His African offspring that he denied to their European siblings? And did he bestow a certain musical something-something on his pale children that he didn’t share with their darker brothers and sisters?
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (SFR) has put out a couple of interesting CDs that look at “black” and “white” gospel music. One is called Classic African American Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways and the other is Classic Southern Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways. Read on for more…
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