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| b00b555 | The voices may propel you to warble along, or to dance, they may inspire you to seduction or insurrection or inspection or merely to watching a little less television. The voices of Barrett Rude Jr. and the Subtle Distinctions lead nowhere, though, if not back to your own neighborhood. To the street where you live. To things you left behind. And that's what you need, what you needed all along. | liner-notes memories | Jonathan Lethem | |
| 43906e9 | His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s. | liner-notes | Jonathan Lethem |