Four of the five songs I’m featuring this week are by black artists, which I find interesting considering all the talk in recent years about how white America has adopted black musical culture.
That’s certainly true today, but maybe it’s not such a new phenomenon. Maybe it’s always been true.
Don’t get me wrong… I was listening to Phil Collins in 1981 right alongside Frankie Smith’s ‘Double Dutch Bus.’ But the songs I most remember from those years are by black folk. And I’m not even including Michael Jackson, who actually was black back then.
Meet Me In Montauk 