Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday is by no means a sequel to Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth – missing are the poignant and bleak sermons on the pain of inner-city existence, replaced by dusky, sensuous re-workings of tainted love songs Warren had written as far back as 1965, during his time as a songwriter at Shrine and Motown. Still, his unfinished self-reinvention, even heard through the prism of these skeletal remnants, delivers on a remarkable purity of vision: one man’s corner of black culture, 24 carats pure and mishandled perhaps until now, finally a bit less misunderstood.
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1.1THE BEST OF GOOD LOVE GONE
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1.2I WANT TO MAKE UP
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1.3I DON’T LOVE YOU
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1.4I’LL NEVER LET YOU GO
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1.5GONE THE PROMISES OF YESTERDAY
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1.6I BEGIN TO WEEP



