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    David Berman Sang the Truth

    The singer and poet of the band Silver Jews, dead at 52, made a career out of strange, beautiful insights.
    by Spencer Kornhaber Aug 08, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Drag City / David Berman

    “All my favorite singers couldn’t sing,” David Berman , in a line that I have probably, whether I’ve noticed myself doing so or not, referenced in my own mind every single day since I first heard it. So many great vocalists don’t sound pretty in the conventional sense, and to list their names is to also list the masters in whose lineage Berman, then of Silver Jews, absolutely worked: , Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan. Berman wasn’t just pointing out his predecessors with that lyric, though. He was

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