Episode 235 - These Songs for You, Live! by Donny Hathaway

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you were wondering why we had a small break last week and teased you with some of the sweet bonus content our subs get (which you can get access to by signing up at</span> <a href="http://www.patreon.com/unsong"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">www.patreon.com/un</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">sungpod - starting at £4 a month!) it’s because we needed a little time to get our research hats on. This week we’re bringing you another monster episode and the topic is Donny Hathaway.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Donny Hathaway was a remarkable musician. That’s not in dispute. A prodigious talent from a very young age, he transitioned from gospel choir singer to a house songwriter for Curtis Mayfield’s Curtom Records, whilst also working with a number of seminal soul and RnB artists in the late 60s. As the 70s rolled in, he started to explore a solo career and the rest is, as they say, history. From 1970 to 197 he delivered a lot of output in a very short space of time, before mental health issues began to take their toll, sending him off into creative silence for the remainder of the 1970s. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As far as soul and RnB singers go, Donny is one of the most influential you’ve probably never heard of. A real musician’s musician, so to speak, he garnered a lengthy list of admirers in his lifetime, and an even greater list since his tragic passing in 1979.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this week’s episode Crag takes on a deep dive into all of his albums before we discuss his posthumous live collection Songs for You, Live! And get to the bottom of whether or not his truly unsung. </span></p>