Gimme Some Truth

I received a copy of the latest John Lennon "best of" collection, Working Class Hero(buy it), as a Christmas gift. It's actually one of the best of those types of retrospectives that I've seen, a double cd that includes about half the tracks from each of what I consider his three best albums(Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, and Double Fantasy), plus a lot more--including all his stand-alone singles such as "Cold Turkey". There's also a live version of "Come Together" and his home demo recording of "Real Love".

Anyway, listening to "Gimme Some Truth", I thought that song seemed just as relevant today as it was when he wrote it. Hell, I suppose it's just as likely that he'd be wiretapped or spied upon today as it was during the Nixon/Hoover era.

But instead of posting the Lennon original, I thought I'd provide a link to Sam Phillips' cover version, from one of my favorite albums of the '90s--produced by her husband, the also great T-Bone Burnett.

Sam Phillips--"Gimme Some Truth"

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