Our Record Store Day 2010 Label Showcase — The Daptone Week —continues today with Mikey "Custodian of Soul." Mikey's the drummer for Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens as well as a Daptone Soul DJ. When I was asked to pick my two favorite record stores about 15 from the New York area came to mind. Instead of taking the easy route I decided to pick one store for the home team, and [...]
by Pete Wingfield I wrote and recorded "Scratchy 45s" in 1976, as a tribute to the New Orleans R&B that I loved then, and still do. The idea was to cram in as many crafty musical and lyrical allusions as possible, while still ending up with a proper original song! I'm sure fellow BWF-ers, being true cognoscenti, will have no trouble spotting them all. Yeah, I know the tempo is a bit too fast and the groove is hardly authentic, but hey, give me a break - it was 33 years ago, I was still kinda green behind [...]
1961 The Showmen, It Will Stand. Lee Dorsey, Ya Ya. Some folks don't understand it, That's why they don't demand it. The Showmen. Why New Orleans rules, part upteenth in a series: The Showmen were from Norfolk, Va. They came together in the late '50s and were signed to Atlantic, which, however, never released a single record by them. So the band went to New Orleans, auditioned for Minit
Just when I am about to conclude that 46 has no special significance to the average person I must reverse myself completely. Forty-six matters to everybody, and not in some obscure way: Humans have 46 chromosomes. And while this fact might not come across as the type to pay the same kind of musical dividends as other numerical certainties, e.g., "24 hours a day," that sure didn't stop Tool from confronting the chromosome angle, tossing in Jungian imagery, and whipping these elements into a robust prog-metal froth called "Forty Six & Two," which describes mankind's ascendancy to a higher level [...]
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