Glenn Marais
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Glenn Marais
Glenn Marais is an accomplished singer/songwriter with a Juno Nomination and a Socan Number One Award. Glenn just released a book of poetry, Dance with Fear Live in the Light, and is currently working on his second book.
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Down to the Crossroads
Down to the Crossroads My Journey into the Delta The Heaviest Music in the World Worn fingers, slide down the steel strings caressing the neck of the weathered metal dobro, coaxing the sounds of God, love, the Devil and regret from the depths of a soul. Wandering gypsy guitar players rode the rails from the South to the North, pursuing the big city dream, driven by forces that raged from a lifetime of being told you were no good. That you were a nigger, a coon, a spade, something to be hunted down and hung from a tree, spit on in the street, kicked to the curb and oppressed for no reason other than the color of your skin. Your ancestor's ragged cries from the whip and iron, ring resolutely in your mind and your heart and the pain of a tortured past is never far from you. The music that came forth from this delirious pain, was called the Devil’s music. A form of spirited gut-wrenching music that told tales of heartache and triumph and became the soundtrack for a history marred by slavery and racism.
By Glenn Marais5 years ago in Beat
