By: MrFrost
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Before Cat Stevens jumped off the Peace Train (and then apparently got back on again) he was making pretty cool music...
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What a lot of people didn't know is that he (like yours truly) is the product of a Greek father... Cat (original name: Steven Demetre Georgiou) or Yusuf made a lot of great music before he went all fatwa on Salman Rushdie's ass...
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The song RUBY LOVE sort of slipped between the cracks... (not of Rushdie's ass), but I think it's definitely worth a listen... It doesn't hurt that he sings in Greek and it's got a cool Bouzouki line going through it... Pull up a chair, grab a plate of olives and feta, pour yourself a glass of Retsina and check it out...
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Posted on 10/19/2007
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I had no idea. I'd be too embarrassed to admit it if I wasn't so busy wrapping myself in the flag. That is one cool Bouzouki line :) Retsina brings bad hangovers to mind (and stomach), but I was always a sucker for ouzo and tsipouro....cheers! John, have you ever been to Greece?
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While we're at it, if I may, two more artists...
Greg Dulli is like you, Greek father, Irish mother:
And Alex Kapranos is half Greek, half British:
(I'll be quiet now)
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Hey Anna...
thanks for the videos!... (I like the Kapranos one...)
I've been to Greece!... Athens, Delphi, Volos, & Poros... I had a great time... amazing trip...
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Sweet song.
I traveled in Greece, alone, and loved the country. Didn't know about his "roots" though. I feel enlightened.
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Your comments are a little politically insensitive for someone from S.F.
Thank GOD! I love it.