The lethargic pace with which I’m working through this list has little to do with the minimal attention I’ve given this site. It has everything to do with public taste catching up to my eclectic ear.
Kidding, of course.
Although, I do continue to believe there will be a day when the world understands the brilliance that is Brother Ali.
I remember coming across him for the first time. It was at a live show in a tiny club in Toronto. Al and I - stained by sweat and soaked in beer - left the club and spent a long walk home trying to figure out not who the unknown opening act was but why he sang so passionately about being a minority.
Sure we were young and drunk. But a white male singing about the struggles of a minority? “Maybe he was doing an Ani Difranco cover song?” Maybe. For the entire concert? “Meh, maybe he’s that artistic.”
Turns out he’s albino.
His second full length album on RSE released this year. It’s stellar.
Here’s my favorite song on the album and my 6th favorite song of 2007.
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