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American drummer, born 5th December 1944 in Oakland, CA, died 6th March 2002 in Paris, France. The Oliver Johnson's encounter with music takes place with instruments different from the one that will make him famous. In fact, as a young man he learned to play the trumpet and in his free time he sang in one of the many religious choirs in his city. The turning point came by chance between 1962 and 1963 when during his military service he learned the technique of percussion and especially drums. In 1964 he played in various Latin American groups and the following year, having met Don Raphael Garrett, he decided to dedicate himself to jazz, working in the recording studio with pianist Denny Zeitlin and playing with Bobby Hutcherson, Dewey Redman, Sam Rivers, Johnny Griffin , Dexter Gordon, Andrew Hill and others. At the end of the Sixties, following in the footsteps of many other jazz musicians, he left the States and moved to Europe, where he played and recorded, among others, with Alan Silva in 1970, Jean-Luc Ponty in 1971, Anthony Braxton in 1972, Gato Barbieri , Eje Thelin, Rolf and Joachim Kuhn, David Murray and many others. Since 1977 he has been a regular member of Steve Lacy's group with which he recorded half a dozen records for various labels. At the same time, with Takashi Kako and Kent Carter he created the TOK trio, with which he recorded three albums. On March 26, 2002, Johnson was found lifeless on a bench on Rue Pierre Lescot in Paris. The police investigations lead nowhere. His killer will go unpunished.

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LYRICS

I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away
It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is

Livin' in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

I wish politicians would look out for miners
And not just minors on an island somewhere
Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat
And the obese milkin' welfare

Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds
Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground
'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down

Lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is

Livin' in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don't think you know, but I know that you do
'Cause your dollar ain't shit and it's taxed to no end
'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

I've been sellin' my soul, workin' all day
Overtime hours for bullshit pay