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Soul has to be tragic - no doubt...that's why we love these kinda deep and sad lyrics of quality productions...

Yesterday I stumbled, while diggin' in my own crates, upon the Running Water LP by Clarence Reid. The choon "Please Stay Home" was a revelation of sadness...it's about a wife who committed suicide and what the husband feels after finding out...

Any info on this song? Is it a biographical experience of Mr. Reid himself? Cause it's not usual to sing about such a sensitive topic!

thx in advance!

atb m.

btw. didn't find a soundfile on youtube...will upload it during the next days and will post it here...

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  • That tune has got extremely tragic lyrics with massive amounts of self-blame. I hope he didn't have to live through that, wouldn't wish that upon my worst enemy.

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That tune has got extremely tragic lyrics with massive amounts of self-blame.

I hope he didn't have to live through that, wouldn't wish that upon my worst enemy.

Try the equally brilliant lyrically supreme Must I Kill Her by David Hudson, which I am sure was not based on Clarence's life experience. Just a brilliant songwriter, especially of that time and some of my favourite stuff. I think someone else covered MIKH but can't remember who.

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which I am sure was not based on Clarence's life experience. Just a brilliant songwriter, especially of that time and some of my favourite stuff.

Just asked because of the intro "... Mr. Reid I got some bad news for you concerning your wife ..." - that was confusing me a bit ...

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Has anyone seen his film? It's like a 2h documentary following him around as he does his Blowfly "porno" stuff and talking about his life and his influences. His story is very interesting, one of a zillion kids etc, ran away, washed dishes, stacked records for Henry Stone, dodging local sherriffs with his alter ego mask and topless girlies in tow - I am sure there's some embellishment but even without having seen it I'd say it has to be a 100x better watch than old re-runs of "Soulboy".

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Has anyone seen his film? It's like a 2h documentary following him around as he does his Blowfly "porno" stuff and talking about his life and his influences. His story is very interesting, one of a zillion kids etc, ran away, washed dishes, stacked records for Henry Stone, dodging local sherriffs with his alter ego mask and topless girlies in tow - I am sure there's some embellishment but even without having seen it I'd say it has to be a 100x better watch than old re-runs of "Soulboy".

"The Weird World Of Blowfly" is on Youtube. The guy's crazy, but funny.

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