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the first album in three years from the blues legend

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Ran Blake / Eade,Dominique - Roots And Byways [CD] Tool is a bold exploration ofRoots & Byways is a model 21st century recital of 20th century song, a well rounded program of jazz, folk, soul, stage, movie, and TV tunes rife with interconnections. There are five or six jazz art songs (counting Mancini's "Dreamsville"), four in a row at the top. Max Roach's "Mendacity" has a dead earnest political lyric, contrasted with the Gershwins' satirical "Who Cares" (sung, in 1931 musical Of Thee I Sing, by a self absorbed US President).