His signature song's irresistible sound - complete with clanking chains - is still fun to hear. Sometimes you first become aware of a song at a perfectly appropriate moment in your life, and if the connection is strong enough you'll remember it for a long time. That just might be the case for me, because there was a time in the 1960s when my job made for many a depressing Monday morning -- and that's when I first noticed a tune named...
The Amazing Pilots- I've Got Wings Irene A great song from a great album that kind of got lost in the shuffle. A lot of my friends have recently gone back to school so a song about leaving is kind of appropriate. ( buy ) Nic Bommarito- Once a Freak Always a Freak Nic is [...]
mp3: Lee Hazlewood - Your Sweet Love mp3: Lee Shot Williams - You're Welcome To The Club mp3: Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder mp3: Lee Dorsey - A Lover Was Born mp3: Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Soul Fire mp3: Lee Moses - California Dreaming mp3: Lee Marvin - Wand'rin Star On Monday morning, shortly before I was to start the working week, my phone buzzed the buzz of an incoming text. Message received from Colin: [...]
Funky Sole has been one of the best things going for Hollywood for six years now. Created and presided over by Miles of Breakestra and Egon from Stones Throw with frequent help from "unofficial third partner" Cut Chemist and occasional drop-ins from DJ Shadow , J.Rocc , Peanut Butter Wolf and tons more of impressive names in the world of dedicated crate diggers. The sound at Funky Sole is eclectic and runs the gamut from rare funk, soul, and psychedelic rock to Afro-Latin, Bollywood and [...]
Er...my buddy Chemistry Lad, aka DCMarkie, is a supaduper photog these days. Check it out -even the mighty DCist thinks so. When stuff like this happens in my life, I often wonder, often aloud: What would Christina Ricci say? (more...)
It's to my shame that months after receiving the debut album from Jensen Sportag in the post, during which time I have carried it with me everywhere & found it frequently sliding into my CD player, i've still failed to write about it. Perhaps the quotes on the back of the CD case are a good place to start: "Every time I listen to Jensen Sportag I love it more - my favourite unsigned band" Max
WRITING PAPER BLUES Blind Willie McTell Available on: Statesboro Blues: The Early Years 1927-1935 RCA : 2003 [Buy It] THERE SHOULD BE A BOOK Lee Dorsey Amy 7" : 1969 Available on: New Lee Dorsey Sundazed : 2000 [Buy It] EVERY DAY I WRITE THE BOOK Elvis Costello Punch The Clock Columbia : 1983 [Buy It] THE BOOK I READ [...]
Right-o, so four days in Milwaukee... here's the running diary with MP3s and pictures (Oh my!). This is a long one... Saturday, 1:15 p.m. Depart Madison for Milwaukee. I'm going to be staying with my old buddy Brad, who was my roommate during my first year at Marquette. We see each other now and again, but probably still too little considering we're now only about an hour and a half apart. Two days prior to this, he called me up and read me a riot act about coming out early Saturday so we could [...]
Michelle Shocked has written a new song for Mardi Gras (Feb 20) called Hardcore Hornography. It's rockin' and fun and totally in the Carnival spirit and keeps our awareness up about the need for continued support of New Orleans. The song features Troy Andrews on trumpet and Trombone Shorty on trombone. It also features the NewBirth Brass Band (Tanio Hingle/bass drum, Kerry Hunter/snare and Jeffrey Hills/sousaphone). Michelle is preparing a new album that will be released in August and she will be performing solo/acoustic later this month at The North American Folk Alliance Conference in [...]
Roy ain't taking no funny business. Give It Up Lee Dorsey Gonh Be Funky Charly Records : 1980 [ Listen ] Summer Madness Kool & The Gang Light of Worlds Polydor : 1974 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] Blue Lights Henry Franklin Blue Lights Ovation : 1976 [ Listen ] Mean Man Betty Harris [ Listen ] [...]
Lightnin' Hopkins -- Feel So Bad Acoustic country-blues with Hopkins' distinctive reedy voice and some banging piano backup. [ Blues Kingpins ] Waylon Jennings -- Crying Jennings is not quite up to the melody; his reach isn't as agile as Orbison's, his touch not as deft. He's like a blackhat hacker whose social engineering fails and so he decides to brute force it. It's inelegant but it works. [ Country Giant @ emusic] [...]
Lee Dorsey -- Confusion Here's an energetic track about love and confusion--having your world turned upside down and shaken until everything falls out. According to wikipedia , Lee Dorsey's highest-charting tracks were "Ya Ya," "Working In The Coal Mine," "Holy Cow," "Ride Your Pony," and "Do-Re-Mi," which leaves me wondering what happend to "Night People," "Draining," and "Yes We Can" (yes we can, I know we can, yes we can can). According to the liner notes of All Ways Funky , Lee Dorsey worked in an auto shop and [...]
It was about a year ago today that we all got a really rude awakening about what was happening in New Orleans. As you know, not only did a ferocious storm hit, but a strange tide of neglect as well... I won't go over the horrific details and finger pointing, the civic idiocy of hundreds of thousands living in a below sea level hole with no plan to get 'em out Whether you see a natural
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