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Billie Holiday- Strange Fruit Southern trees bare strange fruit | |
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Great and haunting song... inspired me to write my undergrad thesis (years ago) on popular black music with "civil rights" messages in the 1930s. | |
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I love this song! My favorite from Billie. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
"The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing." - Socrates | |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Nina Simone... "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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One of the best songs ever made hands down Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
All music is shit music and no music is real- gunsnhalen Datdonkeydick- Asherfierce Gary Hunts Album Isn't That Good- Soulalive | |
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sometimes, i have to skip this song when listening to Billie. 
LOVE ♪♫♪♫ ♣¤═══¤۩۞۩ஜ۩ஜ۩۞۩¤═══¤♣ | |
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