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Boris Gardiner, Everything To Me, 1986
Nostalgia works in funny ways – it pulls you in at the weirdest times. I knew Boris Gardiner by fluke. One day in the library I saw a CD called Every Nigger Is A Star. It is the soundtrack to a film I haven’t seen. I took the CD home o check it out – the cover screamed James Brown and Sly Stone and Curtis Mayfield t…
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