" These are the real reasons
the double-disc collection Confessin' the Blues is designed as a benefit for Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation
" this set never falters through Clark originals like the Chuck Berry-ish romp "Travis County
But something else emerges here as well: Sanders' own deep commitment to lyricism and his now inherent knowledge of Eastern breathing and modal techniques
WAKING THE FALLEN
TESTIMONY(EX)(DLX) 12/6/2005 " These are the realIllustrator: Kevin Harp . Photographer: Hannibal Matthews. For those who didn't get around to checking the brief 2013 release Downtown: Life Under the Gun, August Alsina opens his first full length with "Testify," a ballad that, with grim elegance, lays out the New Orleans native's background. Within a matter of four minutes, he sings of abandonment, envy, poverty, desperation, survival, and the death of his brother. When he confesses, "Didn't