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Gloria (Part I: "In Excelsis Deo"; Part II: "Gloria (Version)") - Patti Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Sq3HL2OV8 A subversion of traditional boy-for-girl adoration as Patti Smith takes the song - "Gloria" -...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7iLFuapeY8 Pivotal in the original and classic Velvet Underground line-up was Welshman John Cale, often...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkumhBVPGdg Not all girl-name songs are paeans to the beauty of or love for the woman in question....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5HuE33wUso Mory Kanté started out in the "Super Rail Band of the Buffet Hotel de la Gare, Bamako",...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKQ_rie50Dg To emphasise the excellence of Mory Kanté, here's a second track from "Akwaba Beach" with yet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oxyhu8V34g I was very sad to hear of the death on May 22nd of Guinean kora player and singer Mory Kanté....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgqMW4CHClk As in the case of Louis, it has been my habit to sing the appropriate song to someone's name...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EqzTiDc-1k If not the mother, then the Auntie Val of recurring riffs: I once worked in an office with a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuAaCgojI90 Billy Bragg gives us the excuse to return to the immortal Four Tops singing songs written and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbdJ8OGYtzM Once upon a time there was a country that was in a crisis. One day, at the height of the...