Jarrod Lawson [2017] - Footseps In The Dark [Live @ City Winery, Atlanta 30 Aug 2017]

Here's a 'teaser' for my next big post.  I'm working on collecting as many live performances of 'as yet' unreleased songs from one the the best new artists to emerge in the last 10 years, Jarrod Lawson along with his singing partner Tahirah Memory.  'All The Time' released on Tahira Memory's debut album Pride in 2015 is still one of my favourite songs of the last 5 years.

To give you a flavour here's Jarrod Lawson live at the City Winery in Atlanta 30 Aug 2017  performing The Isley Brothers - Footsteps In The Dark.

Maxwell [1996] - Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder) [Columbia]

Debut single from debut album Urban Hang Suite from 1996 and hard to believe that this masterpiece is nearly 25 years old and still sounds fresh.  An album you can just leave on and play on repeat.  My copy is well worn!

Maxwell [1996] - Ascension (No One's Ever Gonna Love You, So Don't Ever Wonder) (The Tribute Uncut) [Columbia]

Here's the remix which samples S.O.S. Band - No One's Gonna Love You.

The S.O.S. Band [1984] - No One's Gonna Love You [Tabu 4Z9 05121]

Chance Hayden [2018] - Someday We'll All Be Free (feat. Jarrod Lawson) [Atlanta]

In these times of coronavirus lockdown here's a song of hope.  A superb cover of the Donny Hathaway's 1973 classic performed by Chance Hayden (guitar) and the class act Jarrod Lawson.  It is taken from Chance Hayden's 2018 album Get Somethin' available on BandCamp.  Chance Hayden played guitar of Lawson's 'Live At The BBC' EP on Dome in 2014.

I've taken the opportunity of posting several other versions including Hathaway's original and a live version by Stevie Wonder, along with 'the governor' Bobby Womack, American Idol winner Ruben Studdard, Harvey Mason, Park Place Feat. Donnie Williams, a live version by Jennifer Hudson @ The Whitehouse, a short clip of Teena Marie live in San Diego, Corrine Bailey Rae & Jon Batiste and Alicia Keys.

Donny Hathaway [1973] - Someday We'll All Be Free [Atco 45-6928]

... and the original.

Park Place Feat. Donnie Williams [2011] - Someday We'll All Be Free [Chump Change CCR 1127-7]

A Paul Tillman Smith project who has already been featured on this blog.

Stevie Wonder [2016] - Someday We'll All Be Free

Live St Paul, MN 13 Oct 2016

Harvey Mason [1982] - Someday We'll All Be Free [Alfa ALR-28039]

From 1982 album Stone Mason which appears to have been only released in Japan. This track features vocals of Stephanie Spruill who released 2 good 45s with Roger Sainte as Suff 'n' Ramjett in 1975 (which I'll feature in another post) and then went on to form Saint & Stephanie releasing an album and 4 45s in 1979 on Arista which were sadly very disco oriented.

Bobby Womack [1985] - Someday We'll All Be Free [Beverly Glen BG0006]

Title track of his Beverly Glen album from 1985.

Ruben Studdard [2009] - Someday We'll All Be Free [Hickory HR301005]

A nice modern version by 2003 American Idol winner from Love Is album.

Jennifer Hudson [2009] - Someday We'll All Be Free [Live @ The Whitehouse 2014]

Teena Marie [1980] - Someday We'll All Be Free [Live @ San Diego 1980]

Corrine Bailey Rae & Jon Batiste [2019] - Someday We'll All Be Free

An unrehearsed impromptu live performance at The Steinway Hall, New York in 2019.

Alicia Keys [2002] - Someday We'll All Be Free

From Remixed And Unplugged In A Minor

COVID-19 29th April 2020

Summary

	New Cases	Change	Deaths	Change	Rec'ry Rate	Death Rate
IT	2,891	+66.24%	372	+11.7%	71.60%	28.40%	Increasing
ES	2,706	-3.11%	301	-9.1%	83.87%	16.13%	Increasing
DE	1,154	+16.80%	188	+25.3%	94.90%	5.10%	Reducing
FR	2,638	+124.89%	367	-16.0%	66.46%	33.54%	Increasing
UK	3,996	-7.26%	586	+62.8%	1.56%	98.44%	Reducing
US	25,409	+9.54%	2,469	+78.4%	70.59%	29.41%	Reducing

Commentary

IT - increased new cases and deaths, active cases reducing slowly for 9 days

ES - reduced new cases and deaths, active cases have reduced each day for 7 days

DE - increased new cases and deaths but active cases continue to reduce.

FR - increased new cases - reduced deaths, active cases levelling off for 10 days around 95,000

UK - reduced new cases - increased deaths

As predicted a few days ago UK now has more cases than Germany as their cases reduce and UK continues to have around 4,000 or more per day

Latest testing figures (source DHSCgovuk) show less than half the 100,000 target (45,563) is being met with less than 30,000 people being tested i.e. over half the people tested (29,571) being tested twice.

US - increased new cases and deaths, active cases continue to increase and show no signs of slowing down. Deaths over 2,000 at their 5th highest level.  A sobering fact is that more US citizens have now died from COVID-19 than died in the Vietnam war.

Latest stats from Worldometers

Latest v previous day - Recovery rate v Death Rate

	Total	Active	Conc.	Recvd.	Deaths	Recvd%	Death%
IT	201,505	105,205	96,300	68,951	27,349	71.60%	28.40%
ES	232,128	84,403	147,725	123,903	23,822	83.87%	16.13%
DE	159,912	36,198	123,714	117,400	6,314	94.90%	5.10%
FR	165,911	95,365	70,546	46,886	23,660	66.46%	33.54%
UK	161,145	139,123	22,022	344	21,678	1.56%	98.44%
US	1,035,765	834,261	201,504	142,238	59,266	70.59%	29.41%

Latest v previous day - increase / decrease

Country	New Cases 28 Apr	New Cases 27 Apr	New Case Increase	Deaths 28 Apr	Deaths 27 Apr	Death Increase
IT	2,891	1,739	1,152	372	333	39
ES	2,706	2,793	-87	301	331	-30
DE	1,154	988	166	188	150	38
FR	2,638	1,173	1,465	367	437	-70
UK	3,996	4,309	-313	586	360	226
US	25,409	23,196	2,213	2,469	1,384	1,085

Latest v previous day - actuals

Daily	28-Apr				27-Apr
Country	New Cases	Total Cases	No. Deaths	Death Rate%	Total Cases	No. Deaths	Death Rate%
IT	2,891	201,505	27,349	13.6%	199,414	26,977	13.5%
ES	2,706	232,128	23,822	10.3%	229,422	23,521	10.3%
DE	1,154	159,912	6,314	3.9%	158,758	6,126	3.9%
FR	2,638	165,911	23,660	14.3%	163,273	23,293	14.3%
UK	3,996	161,145	21,678	13.5%	157,149	21,092	13.4%
US	25,409	1,035,765	59,266	5.7%	1,010,356	56,797	5.6%

Latest v one week ago - actuals

Weekly	28-Apr				21-Apr
Country	New Cases	Total Cases	No. Deaths	Death Rate%	Total Cases	No. Deaths	Death Rate%
IT	2,891	201,505	27,349	13.6%	183,957	24,648	13.4%
ES	2,706	232,128	23,822	10.3%	204,178	21,282	10.4%
DE	1,154	159,912	6,314	3.9%	148,453	5,086	3.4%
FR	2,638	165,911	23,660	14.3%	153,351	20,796	13.6%
UK	3,996	161,145	21,678	13.5%	128,044	17,337	13.5%
US	25,409	1,035,765	59,266	5.7%	824,229	45,536	5.5%

Latest v one week ago - percentage rate increase

	Daily		Weekly
Country	Total Cases Increase Factor	Death Rate  Increase Factor	Total Cases Increase Factor	Death Rate  Increase Factor
IT	101.0%	100.3%	109.5%	101.3%
ES	101.2%	100.1%	113.7%	98.5%
DE	100.7%	102.3%	107.7%	115.2%
FR	101.6%	100.0%	108.2%	105.2%
UK	102.5%	100.2%	125.9%	99.4%
US	102.5%	101.8%	125.7%	103.6%