Our thoughts and prayers go out this weekend to 62 year old Australian-born pop superstar Robin Gibb, founding member and long-time lead singer of disco trailblazers the Bee Gees, who is reportedly fighting for his life in a London hospital after a long struggle with cancer. In his honor, we're recovering a June 2008 feature which mines my origin as an audiophile and pays tribute to the seminal work of the Bee Gees through an expanded set of folk-tuned coverage. Gibb and his brothers may have spent their careers on the far end of [...]
My head exploded this morning when a "friend" (according to the Internet) posted a link to an article on Facebook… on Facebook! Isn't that just the most meta thing ever? What's more, the title of the piece, "Facebook may not be so friendly for those with low self-esteem" fascinated me. Why did this friend of [...]
Oh Rex The Triangle , how I've missed you. With them, there's always a perfect dose of funk, pop, and electronic vibes laced with an infectious groove. Don't believe me? Check out this edit to The Staple Singers. If you start grooving, can't say I didn't warn you. The Staple Singers - Slippery People (Rex The Triangle edit)
Rex The Triangle strikes again, with an edit of The Staple Singers " Slippery People " . The mysterious producer from Chicago is threatening to send a rocket up the arse of ' Nu-Disco ' and make it sound fun and interesting again. That piano-plugin everybody uses loads is nowhere to be heard.. You've been warned. The Staple Singers - Slippery People (Rex The Triangle edit) [ M ] [...]
It's been an adventurous weekend. Two birthday parties on back-to-back nights (I remained sober! Give me my 48-hour chip!). Pretty much everyone I know was drunk from 5pm on Friday until, well, they're still drunk right now. And none of them have to work tomorrow so they'll probably keep raging through the night! I just [...]
Delaney & Bonnie had a lot of friends. So there's no surprise that an early D&B album cut entered the repertoire of both The Staple Singers and The Flying Burrito Brothers before the duo commercially released their own recording. "Get Ourselves Together" was never anyone's single, but there was something about this song that transcends [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Spinner Interview , Q + A Chris Strong Mavis Staples began her singing career in 1950 as a God-fearing gospel belter alongside her sisters in a family band. But as America began confronting its racial demons in the following decade, the Staple Singers joined the uprising. Roebuck "Pops" Staples, a close friend of Martin Luther King, Jr and the [...]
Fridays 'round these parts typically see gobs of remixes. Today didn't seem right posting a "Friday Remixes," partly due to the fact that this entire weekend most people will be celebrating Christmas with family, friends and loved ones. I plan on doing the bulk of my shopping today and my procrastinating has taken me as far out as possible. No matter how hard I try to fight it every year, I fall into the same trap. Saturday will be full of football from morning till nighttime. I'm in the championship game of my fantasy league, so I'll be [...]
@ Online // Facebook Starting out humbly by broadcasting from a Chicago car dealership in 1963 and for the next twenty-one years of Sunday mornings, Sid Ordower presented the Emmy award winning Jubilee Showcase , a powerful half-hour of the finest Gospel music America had to offer. Many artists now considered legendary performers from Gospel music's golden age got their start on Ordower's show or made their first televised appearance [...]
Last year we had two compilations of classic Christmas soul (plus one featuring newer stuff); here is a third volume. It kicks off with a spoken intro by The Jackson 5 . Jermaine is crying – and the manner in which that is established always makes my smile – and he needs yuletide comforting. Wonderful stuff. Towards the middle we get socially conscious. Stevie Wonder , still just 17 years old, hopes for no hunger and no tears, but for peace and equality of man. Then the Harlem Children's Choir , who sound rather older [...]
Watch Joss Stone, Mavis Staples, and Paul Dempsey sing protest classics in a televised concert.
Shirley Brown lays down the law on this classic mid-seventies soul album, reissued now with previously unreleased gems.
He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg. Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor. Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you. (It's a summer jam, of sorts.) [ mix cover image by Marcus Claesson ] July 2011 Mix [...]
The Staple Singers need no introduction - they are as classic as a '57 chevy and as enjoyable today as they ever were.
Things happen quickly. Good times are had. New friends are made. Fresh experiences teach us about ourselves and the world. There's always that one person who wants to drag you out of the present and into the past. Don't bother. It's not worth the effort. Just keep rolling. But remind yourself to take a moment [...]
The Staple Singers make their biggest hits and best album The Staple Singers had been a together for nearly two decades when they landed at Stax in 1968. They'd recorded old-school spirituals for Vee Jay and folk-influenced sides for Riverside before finding a new direction with the Memphis soul powerhouse; not only did the Staples adapt to the soul and funk energy of Stax, but they evolved their material from the pointed social topics of the folk era to less specific, but highly empowering "message music." Their first two Stax albums, 1968's [...]
Another gem from the Stax Remasters Series.
Star Slinger released "Mornin'" last year, and now there is a video directed by Alan Jensen to match the upbeat, bright feeling of the (Curtis Mayfield produced) Staple Singers sampled song. Star Slinger - Mornin' by Star Slinger
Easter is coming, so it seems righteous to post the first in a series of great Christian music that, I hope, will lift the spirits of the believer, and make those who don't believe wish they would, if even for the duration of a song. This mix comprises gospel, soul, blues, funk and country, stretching from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. Some of the featured artists will be better known in other genres, some of them got their start in gospel music. Among them is Sly Stone , who as Sylvester Stewart was a child [...]
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