Happy Thursday! It's another multi-faceted post for you, dear reader... First, I saw this item by Ed Treleven in Tuesday's Wisconsin State Journal, and had to share it with you... 'Wanna-be tries to stop real cop, police say' Annoyed by a car he thought was speeding, a security guard at a Middleton billiards club turned on the flashing red lights and siren on his Honda Accord early Friday and tried to stop the speeding car, Madison police said. [...]
In 1971 a bunch of big name American soul and rock musicians traveled to Accra, Ghana, for a live performance called Soul to Soul. Anywhere between 100,000 to 200,000 people showed up to Accra's Black Star Square to watch the likes of Wilson Pickett, Tina Turner, The Staple Sisters, Santana and Roberta Flack perform [...]
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the following artists for their gift of music to me and countless others, and to offer my condolences to their families and friends. Wilson Pickett Passed away on January 19 aged 64 years due to heart attack A southern soul legend. His cover of Mustang Sally hit number 6 on the US soul charts in 1966 and has become a standard for any [...]
Send me an Angel Real Life Heartland Polystar : 1983 [ Listen ] Talking in Your Sleep The Romantics In Heat Nemperor Records : 1983 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] Abracadabra Steve Miller Band Abracadabra Mercury/Phonogram GmbH : 1982 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] The Sound The Rapture Pieces of the People We Love Universal Motown : 2006 [ Listen ] [ [...]
Music pioneer, visionary, record label founder, jazz and R&B collector and producer, Ahmet Ertegun has passed away at age 83 from a head injury. A rock and roll fan until the very end, he slipped and fell at a Rolling Stones concert in October, and later slipped into a coma. He was a giant in the music business. He and a friend Herb Abramson founded Atlantic Records in 1947 and was instrumental in the careers of early R&B artists Ruth Brown , Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin , [...]
Music pioneer, visionary, record label founder, jazz and R&B collector and producer, Ahmet Ertegun has passed away at age 83 from a head injury. A rock and roll fan until the very end, he slipped and fell at a Rolling Stones concert in October, and later slipped into a coma. He was a giant in the music business. He and a friend Herb Abramson founded Atlantic Records in 1947 and was instrumental in the careers of early R&B artists Ruth Brown , Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin , [...]
Absent Friends, part 1 Grant McLennan, Ballad of Easy Rider. Jackie McLean, Love and Hate. Love, 7 and 7 Is. Gene Simmons, Drinkin' Scotch. Gene Pitney, Every Breath I Take. Ivor Cutler, Pstola. Dewey Redman, Joie de Vivre. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Handel: Bane of Virtue, Nurse of Passions. Pink Floyd, See Emily Play. Desmond Dekker, Dracula. Gy
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - In Perfect and Imperfect Circles (itsatrap.com) Serena-Maneesh - Sapphire Eyes (Skikkelig Remix) (stereogum.com) Zero Star - Train of Thought (cokemachineglow.com) Paul Brill - Paris is On (cokemachineglow.com) Wilson Pickett - Hello Sunshine (saidthegramophone.com) The Six Parts Seven - Night Behind The Stars (pitchforkmedia.com) Clipse feat. Slim Thug - Wamp Wamp (Pistol Pete Remix) (fluxblog.org) [...]
My man Carlos "El Toro" Zambrano approves this message. Are You Ready? Cut Chemist meets Shortkut Live at the Futureprimitive Sound Session Version 1.1 Luv n' Haight : 1998 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] Take it Back [produced by J Dilla] Madlib Stones Throw : 2006 [ Listen ] 9 Ward Blues DJ Logic Zen of Logic Ropeadope : 2006 [ Listen ] [ Buy [...]
It’s the last weekend of freedom for most of us. Time for summer antics to end, and get into the buckling down at work, school, or what-have-you. In honor of the seasonal change, this ‘cast is all about gettin’ your groove on, funkin’ it up, or whatever you want to ...
The soul legend Wilson Pickett died on Thursday night. Born in 1941 into a Prattville, Alabama family which already had ten children, Wilson started, like so many other soul giants, singing in church. In his case, it was Baptist Church choirs; when he moved to Detroit with his father in 1955 (he had fled his cruel mother's home years earlier) he formed The Violinaires. The gospel band achieved a degree of success - they supported Sam Cooke on national tours - but Pickett was aware that you could make a living from music, or praise the [...]
Ain't superstitious, but these things I've seen...
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