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This has been released on an album this year... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msyYkrm-i5c The album it's from is on Bandcamp...https://castanarc.bandcamp.com/album/water-from-the-well It's from 1990 apparently. Not sure it's been on an album before and I can't see a reference to it in the Music section though I'm probably wrong.

Released on this date in 1987. Still fresh & wonderful.

Finally found the strength to write about my mother's passing in this latest journal entry. A fairly lengthy read but, in these lockdown times, maybe you can tolerate it... Click on 'Journal' to read it.

Just listening to a couple of early tunes "Youth Of Nation....UHF" and would love to hear a first take ,just as they fade it starts to get interesting. ...any others ?

Well known for playing hardened personalities, he was also seen in movies like “Midnight Run” and the TV show “Homicide: Life on the Street.” by Mike Ives | New York Times March 16, 2021 Yaphet Kotto, an imposing actor who descended from African royalty and was known for playing tough characters in a roster of films like “Alien” and “Midnight Run,” died on Monday near Manila in the Philippines. He was 81. His death was confirmed on Tuesday by his agent, Ryan Goldhar. His wife, Thessa Sinahon, announced it in a Facebook post. No other details were immediately available. Mr. Kotto began studying acting at 16 at the Actors Mobile Theater Studio, according to Variety, and by 19 he had made his professional theater debut in “Othello.” He often played police officers, criminals and other hardened personalities onscreen. He received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal of President Idi Amin, the murderous Ugandan strongman, in the 1976 television movie “Raid on Entebbe.” He also starred as a police lieutenant in the 1990s-era TV hit “Homicide: Life on the Street,” an ex-convict in the 1978 film “Blue Collar” and a prison trusty in “Brubaker,” a 1980 movie about a prison farm also starring Robert Redford. He even played a pair of Bond villains in the 1973 film “Live and Let Die”: both a corrupt Caribbean dictator and that character’s alter ago, a drug trafficker named Mr. Big. In 1993, Mr. Kotto, who stood 6-foot-3, told The Baltimore Sun that such roles presented a distorted image of what he was really like. “I want to try to play a much more sensitive man. A family man,” he told the newspaper. “There is an aspect of Black people’s lives that is not running or jumping. more .

Just seen this on Twitter... https://twitter.com/DJRustyEgan/status/1371963903685619715 Hope the link works.

If anyone is interested, Hearts of Space is airing a program on the music of Constance Demby. You can listen for free on Sundays at www.hos.com Tom