" Terence Blanchard's poignant "Malcolm's Theme" (a gorgeous duet between Quinn and Dwight Trible)
" this set never falters through Clark originals like the Chuck Berry-ish romp "Travis County
oddly sentimental note with "I Wish I Was Your Mother
" These are the real reasons
" and the effect is devastating
TESTIMONY(EX)(DLX) 12/6/2005 " Terence Blanchard's poignant "Malcolm'sIllustrator: Kevin Harp . Photographer: Hannibal Matthews. For those who didn't get around to checking the brief 2013 release Downtown: Life Under the Gun, August Alsina opens his first full length with "Testify," a ballad that, with grim elegance, lays out the New Orleans native's background. Within a matter of four minutes, he sings of abandonment, envy, poverty, desperation, survival, and the death of his brother. When he confesses, "Didn't