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As Monk tells it, the song comes from his mother’s words, as he was growing up: “She used to tell me that all the time when I was a kid. She used to say ‘Shut up, you think you be a preacher?’ Ha ha ha. She always said the right thing.”

Bloodstains and Teardrops is an excellently produced album from a near-octogenarian cultural and musical icon