Spotted by @PastaPaul , fantastic cover of the folk song which Roberta Flack made classic. 10 minutes of gorgeous, tortured, distorted bliss. Thanks Paul!
Il Record Store Day è concettualmente una stronzata. Lo dico subito. Scritto lì ad aprire tutto il post. Lo dico io (e lo posso dire io e pochi altri) perché io i dischi li compro tutto l'anno e sempre nei negozi piccoli, quelli soliti, che conosci ti ci fermi sono un punto di ritrovo etc. Quindi per me un giorno dedicato al vostro negozio di fiducia é "un giorno in cui DEVI BERE CAFFÈ'". Lo faccio già, testa di cazzo, e da mo. Fatto é che il RSD é per i più una moda, una maniera per [...]
Todos y cada uno de nosotros tenemos canciones que forman parte del soundtrack de nuestras vidas. Canciones que por una u otra razón tomaron relevancia en momentos específicos de nuestra historia. En ese contexto, Stereogum publicó las "15 canciones que salvaron la vida de James Murphy ", que el mismo Murphy curó para el sitio Ten Songs That Saved Your Life . Para alguien que se hizo de un nombre a través de un sencillo que sirvió como guía auditiva para los hipsters, esta lista de canciones que "salvaron su vida" es refrescante e [...]
Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin' Love
Reviewed by Emily Marcroft for Coverville.com It often seems as though the same 20 Beatles songs are covered over and over again, particularly the later, more mature works. Wonderfully, Let It Be Roberta: Roberta Flack Sings The Beatles takes a liberal journey through both the depth of the Beatles catalog and the development of their songwriting. Of course, Yesterday, Let It Be, and In My Life are here, but so are Oh Darling, I Should Have Known Better, And I Love Her, and I'm Looking Through You. Rules of the [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Q + A Andy Kropa, Getty Images If singers like Tina Turner and Millie Jackson represented the raunchier side of '70s soul, Roberta Flack represented its refined antithesis. The singer's latest effort is 'Let It Be: Roberta Flack Sings the Beatles ,' which, as the title suggests, finds her tackling a dozen songs by the Fab Four and drastically reinterpreting some of them [...]
This album has two really good Ringo tracks and two other decent ones -- that's twice as much as one used to get on Beatles' albums. The Beatles broke up in 1970 and almost immediately the band's output was enshrined as the new standards by which other music was measured. The once insurgent music was now the new tradition. For the generations that followed, the Beatles' songs represented the old and over-praised conventions of the past that needed to be rebelled against. Baby boomers treated the Beatles as God's gift when they were merely a rock and roll band. [...]
So here's something different: Roberta Flack just released a solid album of Beatles covers on February 3rd. Check out the preview above. Favorite songs? "And I Love Him," and "Here, There, and Everywhere." If you like the Beatles or not, this is a good record. Roberta Flack is legendary so hearing her cover some Beatles songs is unique and interesting. "Let It Be" was a good call on the album title as well, seeing as it's one of the best Beatles songs of all-time.
To strike someone with the "underrated greatness" term always carries a bit of weight behind it. You know, the quick snap question of "do they deserve it" comes to mind. Sorry, in the class of u... Continue reading "Killin' Them Softly: Celebrating 75 Years Of Roberta Flack" >
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) -- WASHINGTON - John, Paul, George, Ringo - and Roberta? No, Roberta Flack was never a member of the Beatles, but in her new CD, "Let it Be Roberta: Roberta Flack Sings the Beatles," the soul songstress sings classics from the legendary Fab Four and makes them her own. "I love the romanticism of the music of the Beatles," Flack said in a telephone interview. "When I started to record ... the Beatles were hot, hot,...
"You moved in slow degrees/A sudden memory/You're a Leonard Cohen song" - Better Than Ezra, "Under You" "But I was caught, like a fleeting thought / Stuck inside Leonard Cohen's mind" - Mercury Rev, "A Drop In Time" "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld / So I can sigh eternally" - Nirvana, "Pennyroyal Tea" It's almost unbelievable now to think that we almost never heard Leonard Cohen , the singer. A well-regarded poet from the late [...]
December's headline death probably is that of the great Cesária Évora , who emerged from the tiny West African island of Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony. But as a soul fan, percussion maestro Ralph MacDonald is my headline departure of the month. He wrote some stone-cold classics and appeared on an impressive catalogue of soul and fusion albums, including those released in their heyday by Bill Withers, George Benson, Donny Hathaway, Ashford & Simpson, Brothers Johnson, Margie Joseph, Patti Austin, Grover Washington, Maynard Ferguson, The Crusaders, Michael Franks, Eric Gale, Bob James, Herbie Mann, [...]
Flying Lotus' Soundcloud page has become a place where we can expect to see some of the producers most deepest secrets materialize. While he continues to tour and create new music for his official releases, it is always nice to get a more intimate exploration into the man's demoes and unreleased tracks. For his latest treat, FlyLo unveils an alternative version of "RobertaFlack", the eerie song from Los Angeles . While this alternate take is certainly different, you can still hear the crackling clock ticking percussion as "Mister Murky Songs" creeps along. Hit the skip to stream [...]
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW Seattle Mc by the name of "LuWees"...Had shined his talent amongst his debut project called "The Couch" Which you shoulda copped and banged properly... But now he dropped fresh visuals for the one the singles off the project entitled "Roberta Flack" with the production handled by "Kaytradamus" It's a dope jam thats short and sweet..wish it was lengthened a bit more...But all in all, it flew by the radar and now it's up and live..LuWees is a member of "ETC" in conjunction with the other two members "Panama Red [...]
Paul Zimmerman, Getty Images Legendary four-time Grammy award-winner Roberta Flack is back with a Beatles tribute album after an eight-year hiatus. The songstress, who is most noted for tracks like 'Killing Me Softly' -- which inspired rap groups like the Fugees to cover it -- debuted her first cover, the 1965 hit 'We Can Work It Out,' this week (Sept. 27) on iTunes. The full album release is expected in February 2012. "Love, inspiration, friendship and my own life's lessons come together when I sing [...]
I was going to post another mix today, but when one of your favourite songwriters dies, priorities take over. And much as I love Jerry Leiber's repository of great lyrics – he was he Cole Porter of rock & roll – my tribute is for Nickolas Ashford, who with his wife Valerie Simpson wrote, produced and recorded over their career of five decades some of the finest soul music. They deserve a lifetime achievement award alone for that string of wonderful songs they wrote and produced for Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing, [...]
If you're a fan of Brooklyn-based group The Stuyvesants , then chances are you're familiar with Darien Birks a.k.a. Flwrpt . Every now and then he drops these really cool mixes with rare gems and impeccable song choices! Sample Food Vol. 2 kicks off appropriately with the Otis Redding classic "Try A Little Tenderness" which Watch The Throne has recently revived. I happen to enjoy discovering the origins of samples and many of you Blind I Faithfuls are music historians, critics and even producers. So this one is for you. [...]
The month was overshadowed by the death of Amy Winehouse . But the Grim Reaper took some people on whom greater attention would not have been wasted. For example, Chic's keyboard man Raymond Jones died at the age of 53 of pneumonia; the same illness that took fellow Chic member Bernie Edwards 15 years ago. Also departing on the soul train this month was Fonce Mizell, who with his brother Larry produced acts such as L.T.D., Taste of Honey, The Blackbyrds, Brenda Lee Eager and The Rance Allen Group, and on his own produced that golden run of Jackson [...]
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