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And a ride in a hearse tells us we’re all close to that final cruise . . . when the body dies and we move on. It’s just the body, man. It’s just the body. The soul’s already gone. So don’t be afraid of a dead body absent a soul. It’s empt...

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’ Do you hear the melody playing in your mind? Does it move you, nudge y...

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV?

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

And here's to the blues, the real blues— where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

You hear lots of notes, don’t you? Some have a major sound. Some have a minor sound. But there’s not one blue note among all these black and white keys. The real blues, the soul of the sound, comes from the spaces in-between.

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues

There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you. And when it lands on your ears, when you hear it for the first time, you instantly recognize it― because it...

Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues