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Songs We Love: Irma Thomas, 'Crazy Love'

Thomas turns the Van Morrison classic into pure NOLA R&B, emphasizing the wonderful impracticality of unconditional love.
Irma Thomas contributes "Crazy Love" to the <em>Instant Love</em> series, which features famous love songs that were originally sung by men about women, reimagined with female vocalists.

"I choose songs with the intention of having something that I can understand," New Orleans soul legend in 2010. "And in order to make it believable, you have to know what the song

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