It was a shock for me to discover that Boz Scaggs wrote this song because I didnt think him capable of such melodic invention. His own recording is decent, but it doesnt approach what a great singer could do with a song like this. This is his masterpiece.
This is the Arabic character "nun" the first letter of the word "Nazarene." I post it as my avatar in solidarity with people of all faiths suffering persecution at the hands of Islam. Many of them are members of the oldest of our Christian Communities, dating from the days of the Apostles. They endure cruel, merciless and unrelenting persecution. They are Orthodox and Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical, Coptic, Pentecostal, and Baptist. To the persecutors they, and we, are all "Nazarenes." |