You want to talk about a Dream Team? Forget about basketball - instead think of the Soul Clan . Formed in 1968, it included Solomon Burke, Ben E. King, Arthur Conley, Joe Tex , and Don Covay , five heavyweights of soul at its artistic height. Originally Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett were going to be on board as well - can you imagine that line-up, damn?!!? Unfortunately, by the time the project kicked into gear Otis had died in a tragic plane crash and Wilson mysteriously pulled out. [...]
Good Morning, Body From my jukebox to yours, some smooth soul covers... Aretha Franklin - Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel cover) : Bridge Over Troubled Water 7" Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (live) : Concert in Central Park Aretha Franklin - Brand New Me : Bridge Over Troubled Water 7" B-side Solomon Burke - Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival [...]
STOMP DOWN SOUL (SON OF A SON OF A SLAVE) Larry Darnell Instant : 1968 Available on: The Instant & Minit Story Charly : 2005 [Buy It] The kick-ass "Stomp Down Soul," by Larry Darnell, is one of the very, very few songs, sung by an African American, which references "the peculiar institution" directly (rap's a different story, which I'm not going into today.) Lately, I've been hitting the history books, trying to figure out why.... Visiting a Georgia plantation in 1839, the British actress Fanny Kemble [...]
PLEASE SEND ME SOMEONE TO LOVE Percy Mayfield Specialty : 1950 Available on: Poet of the Blues Specialty : 1990 [Buy It] WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW The Shirelles Scepter : 1961 Available on: 25 All-Time Greatest Hits Varese : 1999 [Buy It] LOVE GOES TO BUILDING ON FIRE (DEMO) The Talking Heads CBS : 1975 CBS Demo Recordings [Unreleased] TEENAGER IN LOVE [...]
NORTH TO ALASKA Johnny Horton Columbia : 1960 Available on: Greatest Hits Columbia : 1987 [Buy It] WHEN IT'S SPRINGTIME IN ALASKA (IT'S 40 BELOW) Johnny Cash Personal File Sony : 2006 [Buy It] ROCKIN' LITTLE ESKIMO Bobby Swanson Igloo : 1959 Available on: Nashville Rockabilly Stomper Tome : 2003 [Buy It] THE MIGHTY QUINN Solomon Burke Bell [...]
En ce début d'année, pas de bonnes résolutions, pas de bilans, pas de statistiques, pas d'élections du meilleur disque, rien de tout cela. Il y a plus important.... Dimanche soir, l'œuvre télévisuelle la plus aboutie à ce jour, la plus exaltante va reprendre, pour une 5ème et ultime saison. Ce chef d'œuvre, c'est celui de David Simon et de HBO, la série : The Wire ("Sur Ecoute"). Pour ceux qui
dewey cox & the hard walkers are playing a sold out show in town tonight, not sure if they'll bust out anything from it's a cox christmas! , but if that's the kind of music you want to hear, check out our third holiday mix which includes tracks by the staple singers, clarence carter, rotary connection ("don't forget chicago") & harry nilsson...hope you like it. download: the leather canary xmas mix #3.zip 01. jesse malin - xmas [...]
a little late with this, but saw that the first & second seasons of the wire are currently available on demand & no doubt 3 & 4 will be up soon...so if you're not up to date with what is unquestionably the single best show on television, i urge you to get on board before the fifth & final season starts in january...season one is only available until 10/29, but once you watch the first episode, you'll most likely move through the rest of them pretty quickly...the music on the wire is [...]
BLESS OUR HIPPY HOME The Assortment Fenton : 1967 Available on: Scream Loud : The Fenton Story Wayback Records : 2006 [Buy It] Monday is Brian Howe day in this, the summer of our new Moistworks lineup. But Brian sent a mssg. to the MW superfriends last night: Doom and gloom, deadlines loom, anyone want to play DH? Well, ok. Everyone's getting married this summer, and I've got a few songs that, for one reason or another, never quite made it onto a wedding [...]
FIRE (SHE NEED WATER) Wayne McGhie Wayne McGhie & The Sounds of Joy Birchmont : 1970/Light in The Attic : 2006 [Download Here] WADE IN THE WATER THE GRAHAM BOND ORGANization Ascot : 1965 Available on: Sound of 65/There's a Bond Between Us Beat Goes On : 1999 [Buy It] Hey, baby. Would you like to make a deal? Last week we looked at Jamaicans playing soul music in Toronto, and different variants on "Wade [...]
Brrrrr! My god it's cold outside. My goose bumps have got goose bumps. Which in turn, have got goose bumps. Such is the lack of warmth in the outside world. Today should have been spent curled up in bed. Sadly, it was not. Instead I had the joy of an early rise. The exhilerance of scraping ice from my windscreen. The pleasure of frozen fingers fumbling with a car park lock that resolutely refused to unlock. The unabashed jubilation of slip sliding along the frozen streets to the train station. The delights of experiencing the wind [...]
Here are the mp3s as promised last week, if you checked out part 1, you can just skip down to the songs... hope you find something you like. I've been a fan of magazines since I was around ten or eleven years old. And most of my magazine money over the many years has gone towards music mags, my first subscription to a music magazine being Rolling Stone. But this was back when RS still had some bite, I think it was around 1974 when it began showing up in the mailbox. Now the [...]
2 dinosaures nous reviennent en grande forme cet automne. D'un côté Solomon Burke sort son premier album country produit par Buddy Miller, avec des chansons signées Gillian Welch, Jim Lauderdale, Dolly Parton entre autres, et les voix d'Emmylou Harris, Patty Loveless ou encore Welch et Parton. Inutile de dire que c'est sublime. Solomon Burke - Valley Of Tears (MP3) (chanson signée Gillian
Pour cette petite reprisounette du dimanche (tout de même la cinquantième), je me suis dit "mon enfant" (je m'appelle souvent mon enfant, ça me rend un peu de l'innocence que j'ai perdue avec les ans), cette fois-ci, il faut que tu y ailles au culot, comme si tu connaissais tout bien alors que tu n'y connais rien. Et certes oui, je le reconnais, je ne suis pas un Bobdylanologue. Et pas un Solomonburkologue non plus. Mais quand à l'occasion d'un documentaire passé sur la BBC voilà quelques semaines sur ce dernier, j'ai entendu ce dernier reprenant ce premier, [...]
So how does the King of Rock and Soul end up making a country album? While it's true that Gospel and Country used to be more intertwined, Solomon Burke actually grew up on the songs of the cowboy, watching Gene Autry and Roy Rogers television shows at the behest of his grandmother (they watched for the music.) He even has a clock radio that wakes him up to "Back in the Saddle Again" [...]
How great is this? One amazing male vocalist namechecks other amazing male vocalists which means you get the pleasure of being able to listen to them all! Wilson Pickett said: - " in the midnight hour , that's when my love comes tumbling down." Solomon Burke said: - " if you need me , why don't you call me." James Brown said: - "when you're tired of what you got, try me ."* Gene Chandler said: - "there's a rainbow in my soul." Van Morrison [...]
I have to admit that when I saw a taping of Conan O'Brien featuring Solomon Burke in the spring of 2001, I had no idea who Solomon Burke was. (Of course, this was before his "comeback" album Don't Give Up On Me (Epitaph, 2002). He was in New York to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.) I also have to admit that it's only been recently, since the buzz about his upcoming album
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There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
Un violon, un jambon
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Audiography: Stop. Pause. Play.
Postmodern Sounds in Country and Western Music
Pictures Of Andre 3000 As Jimi Hendrix
Hungry Kids Of Hungary – Scattered Diamonds Live Op Pinkpop 2012
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