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The most poignant one in my mind is Big Sugar's cover of BTO's "Let It Ride." If you haven't heard that cover, it will blow your mind. The difference is that Gordie Johnson's take uses that fusion of blues/rock/reggae that made the band famous, but it really comes down to his soloing, which is simply blazing. The cover is bolder and more meandering than the original, which, by comparison, sounds too straight-ahead.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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