Don't Be A Fool

Album: Take Me To The Alley (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • Gregory Porter confesses to his own romantic shortcomings on this smouldering ballad. "A love song cuts both ways," he told Billboard magazine. "You can make mistakes in love, and that's a story too."

    "As a songwriter - as an artist, period - you take a kernel of heartbreak and you store it away," Porter continued. "It may stew for years before you have something to say about it. 'Don't Be a Fool,' that's a real experience: It's both admitting 'Yes, I did wrong' and saying 'Don't do what I did.'"

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