This liner note is a “Love Letter” about a new recording you are listening to, entitled, The State of Black America, by composer, drummer, band leader Mark Lomax and his very musical trio. The album is about art expression and about music and life. And what sweet music and what rich life! These comments I wrote as I listened the first time,

This liner note is a “Love Letter” about a new recording you are listening to, entitled, The State of Black America, by composer, drummer, band leader Mark Lomax and his very musical trio. The album is about art expression and about music and life. And what sweet music and what rich life! These comments I wrote as I listened the first time, although once I listened I never stopped hearing this record and allowing myself to hear it over and over and over again, and more deeply. It’s just that good and continues at each listen to reveal itself in new ways. When I sat to listen I was blown off my chair. This is a ‘kick tail record project.’ Perhaps getting hit by meaning and beauty is the state we hope all America could be in, but if Black music could do this again in the world it would begin here.