
Keeping with the vintage toons, here's another mostly soul mix for your listening pleasure. FYI - that's Inez Foxx on the cover. January 2012 Mix 01 Dionne Warwick - You're Gonna Need Me (1973) 02 Mable John - No Love (1960) 03 Gladys Knight & The Pips - Didn't You Know (You'd Have to Cry Sometime) (1969) 04 Barbara & The Browns - It Hurts Me So Much (To Be Able To Look And To [...]
Before I even did a mix dedicated to delta blues , I was determined to do a mix of vintage soul. At the time I was obsessed with the Numero Group 's Eccentric Soul series (I still am), and it the first pass I took at doing a soul mix was too single-sourced to merit posting. My knowledge of soul is ever expanding from a number of sources - hip-hop samples , Mississippi Records' tape series , and good old self-motivated research - so it was just a matter of time [...]

I'm the last man standing at hearsay this year, so sorry for the poor year-long and end-of-year showing. But I wanted to share my picks all the same, here they are. topomodesto's favorites 2009: 01. Diamond District - In The Ruff [ mixtape sampler ] Released, at first, for free in order to grab attention; the fantastic boom-bap production, athletic lyricism, and all-together undeniable cohesion was well deserving of the amount that it got from the hip-hop blogosphere, though it should have gotten much more. If [...]
1960 Art Farmer and Benny Golson, Killer Joe. The Shirelles, Boys. The Fleetwoods, Outside My Window. Billy Miranda, Go Ahead. Bobby Hebb, Night Train to Memphis. The Coasters, Shopping For Clothes. Derrick Morgan, Fat Man. Serge Gainsbourg, L'Eau à la Bouche. Gary U.S. Bonds, New Orleans. The Devotions, Rip Van Winkle. Eddie Cochran, Cut Across Shorty. Lattimore Brown, Somebody's Gonna Miss