I'm still on a June Christy kick. In her sunny optimism, there's so much pain and hurt. I hear volumes of regret, disappointment and insecurity but also determination to get beyond all of it. I'm sure part of it was a mess of fatigue from enormous amounts of stress while recording and touring with Stan Kenton between 1945 and 1950. [Photo above of June …
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