A Love Supreme

Impulse!, under Universal. The record is a repayment.

Impulse! released it. Universal holds Impulse. Coltrane had come through the appetite and the dark, and this is where he says the thanks out loud and refuses to make it small.

Play the opening when the house has been given something it did not earn. Then be quiet long enough to mean it.

The eight

Industry
10/10
Four men, one offering. Nothing in it is casual.
Household
5/10
No kitchen. A man putting his life back in order.
Piety
10/10
Gratitude, named, and then played until the band is spent.
Courage
8/10
He had been in the dark. He does not hide the turning.
Republic
5/10
A private vow made in public.
Temperance
8/10
The length is the devotion, not a sprawl.
Truth
9/10
He says who the thanks is for.
Stewardship
10/10
A standard of thanks. A house can grow up near it.

Live historicallyOnce this month, the first movement, phones in another room.

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RCA · Sony Music Entertainment

Coat of Many Colors

RCA, under Sony. Poverty, a mother's work, and a love that does not apologize.

RCA released it. Sony holds RCA. The record is a theology of a poor house: the coat is ridiculous and it is holy, because of whose hands made it. The laughter at school is real. It does not win.

Play this before a child learns to be ashamed of the people who kept them warm.

The eight

Industry
8/10
The story is sewn as tightly as the coat.
Household
10/10
A mother, a needle, a child. The house is the whole song.
Piety
7/10
She calls the coat love. She is not embarrassed by the word.
Courage
7/10
She wears it to school knowing they will laugh.
Republic
6/10
The rich children are wrong. She says so without becoming them.
Temperance
8/10
No bitterness she is willing to live in.
Truth
9/10
The rags are rags. The love is also a fact.
Stewardship
10/10
A song to hand a child before the world prices them.

Live historicallyTell the story of one object in this house that is worth more than it cost, and who made it.