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Friday Night Music, a song for the times

I first heard this song on a CD I bought back in 1992: American Dreamer, by Thomas Hampson. I never heard of the guy before, but he turned out to have a great voice. The album is a collection of songs by Stephen Foster. Unfortunately, while you can listen to his version on youtube, there’s no accompanying video, so I’m going with this one, by Bob Dylan, who can’t hold a candle to Hampson so far as his voice goes, but who does a great job as well. It’s a song for our times, and reminds us that it’s the folks already at the bottom that suffer the most at times like these.

https://youtu.be/SevgjjSovfc