I often find myself en route to work with my iPod on shuffle, uncovering songs I haven't heard in years (or ever). This morning LL Cool J 's 1993 single Back Seat (Of My Jeep) from his fifth album 14 Shots to the Dome made it's way onto my commute. The song which peaked at Number 42 on the Billboard Hot 100 samples The Detroit Emeralds You're Getting a Little Too Smart and prompted Monica 's 1995 hit debut single Don't Take It Personal (Just One Of Dem Days) [...]
Jan 17, 2011, 7:07pm
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Järjekordne järeleaitamis- või kordamistund muusikaajaloos - The Detroit Emeralds . The Detroit Emeralds - I'll Never Sail The Seas Again ( mp3 )

Detroit Emeralds: I'll Never Sail The Seas Again and Take My Love From: You Want It You Got It [Westbound, 1971] You know, as much as I like to flaunt the rarity of many of the songs posted here, I'm as much a sucker for a well known hummable soul song as anyone else and Detroit Emerald's Baby Let Me Take You In My Arms falls firmly in that category, I seem to recall even posting up about it [...]

Now and again I'll get emails from people requesting stuff. Sometimes specific (" Got any Mogwai outtakes ?" - Nope.) Sometimes more general (" Can you re-post that (insert anything from the past 3 years) please - Come on! Gie's a break! " More Smiths !" " Radiohead !" " White Stripes !" " More soul please !") OK! OK! More soul I can do. I like my soul music a lot. I think I have all the relevant bases covered in my collection. Just to make sure, I listen every Saturday night to Craig Charles [...]
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Fessor Funk: Take Me To The River [1975] A fun, up-tempo, clav-happy version of this, with a string line that calls to mind this immortal classic. Fessor Funk on eBay

Hip-hop legend MC Lyte & acclaimed journalist and author of " When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost " Joan Morgan @ Lehigh University. Photos taken by CalvinJohn Smiley Scratch Magazine recently ran a great article (if not for the actual content, just for the sheer acknowledgement of the problem) posing the question "where is the female mc?" While it has been some time since I've read the article, I remember walking away with the notion that labels have essentially come to the conclusion that signing and [...]