Lovin' You, Baby - Charles Bradley

Quelle force inouïe dans cette voix troublante...

Ça fait déjà plus qu'un an que M. Bradley se trouve
en bonne compagnie d'Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson, Etta James,
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Denise LaSalle, Sharon Jones, Nina Simone, Wendy Rene,
Dee Dee & Dionne Warwick, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, James Brown,
Solomon Burke, Marvin Gaye, Arthur Conley, Ben E. King, Curtis Mayfield,
BB King, Percy Sledge, Jacky Wilson et bien plus d'autres... 

In admiring remembrance of Charles Edward Bradley (1948 – 2017)

Why is it so hard

To make it in America

I try so hard

To make it in America

A land of milk and honey

A land supposed to be built with love

It take love and understanding

To live and let live

I was born in Gainesville Florida

I traveled far and wide

Then I moved to Brooklyn, New York

Had hard times, for sometime I hold on

Why is it so hard

To make it in America

I try so hard

To make it in America

Seemed like nothing was goin' right

So I said to myself

You got to move away from here

I went to upstate New York

A little town they call Poughkeepsie

Got me a job

To get away from all this stress

But I couldn't get away

No matter how far I went

Seems like nothing gonna change

Everything still remained the same

Why is it so hard

To make it in America

I try so hard

To make it in America

Why, tell me, tell me

We gotta make a change, in America

Help me somebody

Charles Bradley

To Mr. Bradley who I can't admire in a concert anymore -

thanks for "echo[ing] the evocative delivery of Otis Redding" (Paste Magazine, 2011)

and being the "screaming eagle of Soul" -

rest in peace and be part of the already huge amount of gorgeous soul singers in heaven!