A track I put together in 2001. It features samples woven from President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961, Malcolm X in 1964, and Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1968. It seems the more things change, the more they stay the same...

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Home can mean many things, and be contained within many structures, both external and internal. For my Mom, as she lost all memory of her home, it meant a garish, orange-y painting of Chinese junk sailing ships in a harbor. We debated whether the painting was "sunrise," or "sunset," eventually agreeing on sunrise. It was her talisman...

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An old melody, updated by the guitar of Mike Smith...

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