Darryl Lenox - Blind Ambition (CD)

Live from the Vogue Theater in Vancouver, Ontario, Darryl Lenox’s 2012 “Blind Ambition” brings an honorary Canadian to his honorary home—and the site of his very actual road into and out of blindness. Weirdly, the story starts and ends with race. See, what had happened was… it was 1994. The Canucks had just beaten the Leafs, and though Lenox did not then and does not now care about hockey, the people of Vancouver were frolicking about like carefree, universal-healthcare-havers, celebrating drunk in the streets, jaywalking with abandon. Lenox’s first mistake, as he confidently stepped up to swipe some reveler’s cab, was counting on his Blackness to signal, as it did in America, that he was a violent sodomite best to be avoided. His second was failing to recognize the Canadian threat, “Hey, hey, f’n relax.” Three years later, that quick right jab and an unwillingness to interrupt his career for healthcare had left Lenox looking like a very suave Deebo, with one deadbeat dad of a blind