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“You gonna tell me the history of the blues? I am the goddam blues. Look at me. Shit. I’m from West Virginia, I’m the first man in my family not to work in the coal mines, my mother scrubbed floors on her knees for a living, and you’re going to tell me about the goddam blues because you read some book written by John Hammond? Kiss my ass.”

-- Bill Withers

Definition

"Life like most precious gifts gives us the responsibility of upkeep. We are given the responsibility of arranging our own spaces to best benefit our survival. We have the choice of believing or not believing in things like God, friendship, marriage, love, lust or any number of simple but complicated things. We will make some mistakes both in judgement and in fact. We will help some situations and hurt some situations. We will help some people and hurt some people and be left to live with it either way. We must then make some adjustments, or as the old people back home would call them, 'JUSTMENTS."

Let's think of this as an approach to the blues, and an approach to music making at the same time.

What We're Hearing

"I'm not loose and indiscreet."

There is a jazzy at ease to Bill Withers approach to soul, a step back from salvation seeking. At the same time there is a frankness that some might call the blues, but it's not straight ahead that way.

We're on +Justments at the moment, and are currently in love with the list of self-wrangling insults compiled into the song "You.".

We'll keep y'all posted on what else we find.