Soul music
Recorded prior to a debilitating stroke and released a year afterward, Michael Kiwanuka’s album offers beautiful songs of pain, loneliness, heartbreak, and despair.
Ahead of his October 2 Regattabar show, the Brooklyn-based soul singer reflects on Boston’s supportive early-2000s music scene, working with Swamp Dogg, and the pleasures and challenges of drawing from a deep catalog.
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