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Steven Hale
Jun 7, 2021

Songs for Insomniacs 54: John Cale and Terry Riley, “The Protégé”

The brisk, mean closing track from the 1971 collaboration is less like the long, exploratory hallucinatory drones on the rest of the album and more like Ramsey Lewis in a very bad mood.

Steven Hale
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Music: Discovering the lost and forgotten. Politics: Exposing injustice. Screenwriting: Emotional storytelling.

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