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Paid for their Tears: The Peculiar Profession of Professional Mourners
The business of death is one as old as time. Today the market size of global death care services is valued at over $100 billion annually and it’s expected to double in the next decade too (an increase attributed to more demand for lavish funerals). But there’s a lesser-known “service” of the industry which those numbers probably don’t account for. “When a loved one dies, you grieve so much that when it finally comes time for the funeral, you don’t have any tears left,” says Liu Jun-Lin, a young professional mourner from Taiwan. Her occupation – professional mourner – dates back as early as Ancient Egypt and the practice is mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments. Whilst a silent, weary or under-attended funeral might be what many of us have come to expect, in China and some parts of Asia, Africa and Europe today, such a low key send-off can be considered seriously bad luck. So let’s meet the enterprising few, who will cry on cue for cash…
One of China’s most sought-after mourners is famous for her displays of crying, crawling and shouting at funerals, a dramatic funeral performance known as kusang. In eastern cultures, the h
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Early Wailers: Pre-Island Years
Thanks to the local public library, I am no longer the same person I once was after reading Roger Steffens‘ comprehensive and thoughtfully organized oral history of Bob Marley and, by extension, The Wailers, from their earliest days. Halfway through the book I felt compelled to take notes about a number of the more obscure early Wailers tracks — as usual, click on boldfaced song titles for streaming audio.
What got me off the couch was the reminder that Johnny Nash, Arthur Jenkins, and Danny Sims (i.e., the JAD production team, featured late last December) brought in top NYC session players to “sweeten” the tracks for American ears – including Bernard Purdie (subject of a recent King history piece). However, when you check the credits on disc one (1968) of the three-disc JAD box set, it says musicians “probably include” Eric Gale, Bernard Purdie, et al. If not Purdie on tracks 1 through 14, asks Zero to 180, then what other drummer? Check out “Love” – a surprisingly tender ballad from the Wailer with the most militant reputation – and decide whether Bernard Purdie provides the drum part on this JAD production from 1968:
“Love”
The Wailers (1968)
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Volume 1: Doesn't matter 1: Jan 2001
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2001 RE-ISSUE PROGRAME
The principal exciting word for Wailers in description past period has antique the proclamation of a planned re-issue programme featuring Bob Vocalist & Description Wailers exemplar Island Records albums.
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