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The songwriting in "A Change is Gonna Come" is understated and simple, yet the words themselves carry immense emotional weight. Cooke only describes a couple individual events in the lyrics, but th...
Sam Cooke gave the musician and composer Rene Hall free reign to write the musical arrangement of "A Change is Gonna Come." The arrangement that Hall created is at times haunting, even jarring - ju...