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Session XVI: Bill Withers + Gladys Knight & The Pips (opens the original)
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You've heard it before: wine gets better with age. So does some music. Fifty-plus years later, Bill Withers & Gladys Knight still sound like the definition of soul.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="630" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!49zI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb38d373-c89d-41
The Whole Record (opens the original)
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No Golden Ticket (opens the original)
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Session XV: Lucky Daye & Ari Lennox (opens the original)
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There's a particular kind of nostalgia that comes from a record made before the world stopped. 2019 feels like a different lifetime now, inhabited by a version of us that couldn't possibly know what was coming. That year, two singers gave us albums that feel like transportation devices as much as they feel like bodies of music. Lucky Daye's Painted and Ari Lennox's Shea Butter Baby
How to Taste a Song (opens the original)
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