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Author:  LanceK [ Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:18 am ]
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If your a fan of the Old Cat Stevens, know knows as Yusuf you will LOVE his new CD "An Other Cup"
Its like being transformed back to the days of "Peace Train".

Great CD!


Author:  Dave Anderson [ Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:25 am ]
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Cool ! I'm a fan of his old music.I still play a few of his tunes...Peace Train,Another Saturday Night, Morning has broken,.... I'll have to check out his new stuff.Thanks Lance

Author:  Don A [ Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:51 am ]
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I hope it sounds better than he did at the Earth Day Concert! It was as if he couldn't even remember the words.

Author:  Michael Dale Payne [ Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:21 am ]
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Cool, I had heard his sons had talked him in to rereleasing some of his previous unpublished work. I wounder if this is it?

Tea for the Tilerman is a fabulous album. Longer Boats, Sad Lisa, I could go on for ever. Really one of the last great folk rockers

Ever hear the story of why he quit and his conversion to Islam?

Author:  Kim [ Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:31 am ]
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[QUOTE=MichaelP]
Ever hear the story of why he quit and his conversion to Islam?[/QUOTE]

Don't know Michael, but I suspect it was a premonition of what Disco was about to do to music.

Cheers

Kim

Author:  Michael Dale Payne [ Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:49 am ]
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No.. He went for a swim alone in the pacific and got caught in a rip tide. He fought for an hour to escape the rip tide and thought he was a goner. He had not believed in a divine being prior to this but decided to pray. He soon found himself safe on the beach. He later claimed that in is semi conscious state that God told him to find his way. For a year after that he tried every conceivable religion under the sun from Buddhism to Judaism. He later claims he had a dream where God appeared to him and said only two words "commit totally" He had been reading a book a friend gave him on Islam that night so he took it as a divine guidance and thus we have Yusuf

Author:  Michael Dale Payne [ Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:54 am ]
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By the way guys This was decades before the outbreak of the Islamic extremist or was fashionable for celebrities to claim they found the one true faith. He gave up every dime and luxury and followed his faith.

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