New To You Music Sundays – Cree Summer – “Revelation Sunshine”

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Canadian, Cree Summer, Cree Summer Francks, Georgia, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Lenny Kravitz, Leonard Albert Kravitz, Los Angeles, Manhattan, New To You Music Sundays, New York, Revelation Sunshine, Sacramento, Street Faërie, Tennis

I remember hearing this song in Tower Records in the 90’s and I had to find and buy the album. I was not aware that it was Cree Summer from A Different World, nor did I know that she was a Lenny Kravitz adjacent artist.


The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Music I Like – Walking Playlist in Chicago

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3BallMTY, A Little Opera Goes A Long Way, Acura Integurl, All Is Full of Love [Plaid Mix], Anita Tijoux, Anthony Hamilton, Around The Block, Ayo, B-Side Blues, Beate, Beautiful, Bengala, Björk, Black And Grey, Chicago, Cimorelli, City Of Angels, Cut Copy, Daft Punk feat Panda Bear, Dave Matthews Band, Despabilate, Doin' It Right, Explosions In The Sky, FATHER JOHN MISTY, Fiction (Pearson Sound Remix, Foster the People, Frank Ocean, Good Lovin', Harder Than You Think, Heart Shaped Box (Live & Loud), Helena Beat, Jezzebella, Kiss & Kill, Le Butcherettes, Lenny Kravitz, Lights And Music, London Grammar, Made In America, Makano, Me Gustas Tanto, Meshell Ndegecello, Milky Way, Mum, Music I Like, Night, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Noble Society, Nunca Digas Nunca, One Smile, Paulina Rubio, Pearl Jam, Playlist, Pretty Lights, Public Enemy, Sky Sailing, Snow And Lights, Suff Daddy, The Swarm, The xx, Thirty Seconds To Mars, This Is Sally Hatchet, Traición, Vessel (Mix 2) (Appendage Only), Vintage Trouble, walking, Wasting My Young Years, While I'm Still Here, Woo, Write A Song, Yellow Moon, Zaki Ibrahim, ZOLA JESUS

Cut Copy – “Lights And Music,”
London Grammar – “Wasting My Young Years,”
Frank Ocean – “Acura Integurl,”
Nine Inch Nails – “While I’m Still Here,”
Daft Punk feat Panda Bear – “Doin’ It Right,”
Father John Misty – “This Is Sally Hatchet,”
Vintage Trouble – “Jezzebella,”
Makano – “Traición,”
Nirvana – “Heart Shaped Box (Live & Loud),
Cimorelli – “Made In America,”
Björk – “All Is Full of Love [Plaid Mix],”
Dave Matthews Band – “Write A Song,”
Lenny Kravitz – B-Side Blues,”
Pretty Lights – “Around The Block,”
Anthony Hamilton – “Woo,”
Zaki Ibrahim – “Black And Grey,”
Bengala – “Nunca Digas Nunca,”
Mùm – “One Smile,”
Lenny Kravitz – “Good Lovin,'”
Pearl Jam – “Yellow Moon,”
Explosions In The Sky – “Snow And Lights,”
Nine Inch Nails – “Vessel (Mix 2) (Appendage Only),”
Ayo – “Milky Way,”
Sky Sailing – “A Little Opera Goes A Long Way,”
Suff Daddy – “Beate,”
Zola Jesus – “Night,”
Thirty Seconds To Mars – “City Of Angels,”
Public Enemy – “Harder Than You Think,”
Anita Tijoux – “Despabilate,”
Le Butcherettes – “Kiss & Kill,”
Paulina Rubio feat 3BallMTY – “Me Gustas Tanto,”
Noble Society – “The Swarm,”
The xx – “Fiction (Pearson Sound Remix,”
Meshell Ndegecello – “Beautiful,”
Foster the People – “Helena Beat”

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Music Mondays – Lenny Kravitz – “Spinning Around Over You”

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1993, actor, arranger, Atlantic, bass guitar, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, clothing designer, composer, Funk rock, guitar, hard rock, harmonica, interior designer, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, Lenny Kravitz, Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz, Leonard Albert Kravitz, Lyricist, music, Music Mondays, music producer, musician, neo soul, neo-psychedelia, New York, New York City, percussion, Reality Bites soundtrack, Roadrunner, rock, Romeo Blue, Singer-songwriter, sitar, United States, Virgin, Vocals, Youtube

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Music I Like: Happy Birthday Prince – Medly

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American Woman, Birthday, Blue Lines, Fly Away, Happy Birthday, Key Yemaya Walker, Lenny Kravitz, Music I Like, Prince, Prince & The Revolution, Prince Rogers Nelson, Purple Rain

Prince and Lenny Kravitz.


The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

New To You Music Sundays – Lenny Kravitz – “I Can’t Be Without You”

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Black And White America, Blue Lines, I Can't Be Without You, Key Yemaya Walker, Lenny Kravitz, New To You Music Sundays

From the new 2011 album Black And White America.


The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

New To You Music Sundays – Lenny Kravitz – “Believe In Me” Piano

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Funny that my first choice today was Bjork’s “Hyper-Ballad,” directed by Michel Gondry, who also directed this video. When I switched my thinking to a less obscure artists, my first choice was Lenny Kravitz, “If You Can’t Say No,” but I eventually chose “Believe In Me,” from his album Lenny. I need you to believe in me. I need to believe in you and us too (2012 edit)


The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Updated Again 2012: Dynamic Post – Artists Who Need To Put Out New Material

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Alice Smith, Alien Ant Farm, Amel Larriuex, Ayo, Billie-Eve, Black And White America, Blu, Cassandra Wilson, Coachella, Coldplay, Common, CRS, Damien Rice, Esthero, Every Opposite, Everything Is Expensive, Foo Fighters, Gnarls Barkley, HotHeavy&Bad, I'm With You, I'm With You Sessions, Joi Gilliam, Kenneth Suffern, Key Yemaya Walker, Lenny Kravitz, Maxwell, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Mylo Xyloto, Nine Types Of Light, OutKast, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Santigold Blue Lines, Santogold, Spank Rock, The Believer, The Dreamer, The Dreamer/The Believer, The King Of Limbs, TKOL RMX 1234567, TV On the Radio, Wasting Light, Weather, Zaki Ibrahim

Updated 1/31/12 11 of 23 wish list items from this time in 2011 completed, not bad.
In no specific order:
Kenneth Suffern’s Blue Lines Still waiting.
Ayo – Billie Eve
Zaki Ibrahim (No, “Ansomnia” was it only whet the appetite) Still waiting. Every Opposite

Alice Smith
Amel Larriuex Still waiting. (Ice Cream Every Day rumored)
Blu Give Me My Flowers While I Can Smell Them
Outkast (as a group) still waiting (headlined Coachella 2014) .
Alien Ant Farm still waiting.
Red Hot Chili Peppers I’m With You (still growing n me) and I’m With You Sessions (much better material)
Foo Fighters (yeah, you say you are, prove it) Wasting Light (LOVE)
Common The Dreamer, The Believer
Radiohead The King Of Limbs and remix album TKOL RMX 1234567
Coldplay Mylo Xyloto (ehh)
Cassandra Wilson
CRS (Waiting on the album) gave up.
Maxwell (I thought this was a 3 album series) gave up
Damien Rice.
Gnarls Barkley (Cee-Lo the solo album was cool, but we need more Gnarls) still waiting.
Esthero (ummmm yeah…) still waiting. Everything Is Expensive
Joi Gilliam (HotHeavy&Bad, need it) want Joi only, however HotHeavy&Bad had mix tape that was my NYC soundtrack.
Lenny Kravitz Black And White America
Me’Shell Ndegeocello Weather
TV On The Radio Nine Types Of Light
Santogold/Santigold some appearances, and will be at Coachella, great performance and new album Master of My Make-Believe

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Blue Lines Birthday Blog – Happy B-Day Father, To Do List

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Andy Allo, Atlanta Braves, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Blue Lines, Bobby Dodd Stadium, Boston Red Sox, Chicago, Chicago Bulls, Citizen Cope, Father, Fenway Park, George Bush, Gnarls Barkley, Holcombe Rucker, Kenneth Suffern, Key Yemaya Walker, Lenny Kravitz, Los Angeles, Mile High Club, MLB, NBA, New York, NFL, Pearl Jam, Portland, Richard Nixon, Rucker Park, Scottie Pippen, Seattle, Sia, Ski, Snow, Super Bowl, United Center, Woodstock, Wrestlemania, WWE

Today family and family friend’s celebrate my father’s 75th birthday, the Platinum anniversary. It is amazing to think of all the things that he’s seen, experienced and done during that time.

He’s lived through World War II, served in Korea, was station and boxed in Japan. Saw Vietnam, 2 Gulf Wars. He saw the World Trade Center erected and saw the day that it fell.

Many things that we were taught through school he experienced, the Civil Rights movement and was around during the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. he saw the first man go to the moon, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy. Witnessed to U.S. Presidents go through impeachment processes. Saw Mandela jailed, and then freed and saw him speak in Atlanta at Georgia Tech’s Bobby Dodd stadium.