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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Good Co: Seattle’s Finest Party Band Keeps Swingin’ While Sheltered

July 30, 2020August 3, 2020 j. poet 1 Comment Duke Ellington, Electro-Swing, Good Co, Quarantine, Seattle

America’s best Electro-Swing band keeps expanding its musical horizons on fourth album, So Pretty

Folk Pop Soul

ALBUMS: The Many Flavours of Italian Ice

July 12, 2020July 16, 2020 Jordan Blum 0 Comments 2020, Britt Daniel, David Hood, Erin Rae, Italian Ice, McKenzie Smith, Midlake, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Nicole Atkins, Phil Spector, Seth Avett, Single Lock Records, Spoon, Spooner Oldham, St. Vincent, The Avett Brothers

As usual, Nicole Atkins and crew mix and match styles to spark retro yet fresh magic

Remembrance Soul

LISTEN: Heaven Must Have Sent Bonnie Pointer

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Anita Pointer, Bonnie Pointer, Boz Scaggs, Elvin Bishop, Grace Slick, June Pointer, RIP, Ruth Pointer, Sesame Street, Sylvester James, The Pointer Sisters

We put together a career spanning mixtape in memory of the original Pointer Sister

Soul

The New National Anthem

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments A Change Is Gonna Come, George Floyd, Malcolm X, Minneapolis, RCA Victor, Sam Cooke, Soul, Spike Lee

How the enduring message of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” still brings us light in our darkest hour

Funk Soul

LISTEN: Stevie Wonder at 70

May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, Detroit, funk, Happy Birthday, Motown, Soul, Stevie Wonder, Tamla

Wishing the Original Master Blaster a Happy Birthday with a joyride through his last 40 years on wax

Country and/or Western New Wave Remembrance Soul

Rest In Peace, Sweet Pea Atkinson

May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 Ron Hart 1 Comment Andrew Gold, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Brick By Brick, Circus Money, Countryman, David Was, Don Was, Dot Com Blues, Elvis Costello, George Jones, I Just Wasn't Made For These Times, I'm Alive, Iggy Pop, Ivan Neville, Jackson Browne, Jimmy Smith, Michael McDonald, Mindi Abair and The Boneshakers, Paula Abdul, Phantom Blues, Richie Sambora, RIP, Sir Harry Bownes, Sweet Pea Atkinson, Taj Mahal, The Hard Stuff, Under The Red Sky, Walter Becker, Was (Not Was), Wayne Kramer, Willie Nelson

Reflecting on the Detroit soul singer’s career beyond Was (Not Was)

Country and/or Western Soul

ALBUMS: Shelby Goes Eponymous

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2020, Allison Moorer, Dusty Springfield, Everson Records, Just A Little Lovin', Shelby Lynne

On her 16th LP, Shelby Lynne probes her psyche and allows her listeners to witness her resolve

Blues Folk Soul

Still Bill, Just As He Was

April 6, 2020 James Porter 2 Comments Bill Withers, Columbia Records, Curtis Mayfield, Funkadelic, Gil Scott-Heron, John Hammond, Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, Swamp Dogg, Terry Callier

There was almost no precedent for Bill Withers in the 1970s

Folk Funk Remembrance Soul

LISTEN: Godspeed, Bill Withers

April 3, 2020April 3, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Ain't No Sunshine, Bill Withers, folk, funk, Grandma's Hands, Just The Two Of Us, Lean On Me, Lovely Day, RIP, Soul

Family announces the passing of the soul legend, who died on March 30 at age 81

Electronic Funk jazz Latin Psychedelics Records Soul

The Hermetic Composer’s Dream

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Justin Joffe 0 Comments Brooklyn, Coronavirus, Four Tet, Ghost Funk Orchestra, Kieran Hebden, Seth Applebaum

Four Tet, Ghost Funk Orchestra and the power of splendid isolation

Dub/Reggae Electronic Hip Hop Soul

I Am She Who Stinks of Men: Tricky’s Maxinquaye at 25

March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1995, Adrian Thaws, Island Records, Martina Topley-Bird, Maxinquaye, Public Enemy, Tricky

Plenty of works can lay claim to the title of the Horniest Album of All-Time, but only rarified company like Prince or PJ Harvey can straddle both that shortlist and the one for Greatest Albums Ever Made

Classical Dance Disco Folk Funk Glam jazz Pop Radio Rock Soul

POP TOP 40: Top LPs & Tapes for the Week Ending February 22, 1975

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 Thomas Inskeep 1 Comment Average White Band, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Grand Funk, Igor Stravinsky, Linda Ronstadt, Minnie Ripperton, Passport, Phoebe Snow, the Doobie Brothers, The Ohio Players, The Pretty Things, Three Dog Night, Tony Orlando

45 years ago, these albums were flying out of America’s record stores

Funk Soul

NEWS: Oakland Funk Giants Tower of Power Return With New Album and Tour

February 17, 2020March 9, 2020 Ron Hart 2 Comments Emilio Castillo, Jerry Cortez, Joe Vannelli, Marcus Scott, Oakland, Roger Smith, Soul Side of Town, Step Up, Stephen "Doc" Kupka, Tom Poitzer, Tower of Power

Step Up arrives March 20; hear new single ‘Let’s Celebrate Our Love,’ released on Valentine’s Day

Soul

An Artist in Transition: Sam Cooke’s The Complete Keen Years (1957-1960)

February 13, 2020February 13, 2020 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Billie Holiday, Keen Records, Sam Cooke, Soul, Summertime, The Complete Keen Years 1957-1960, Vaughn Monroe

A concise box set shines a most necessary light on the soul legend’s early secular days

Dub/Reggae Reggae Roots Ska Soul

Bob Marley Beyond Legend: Deep Cuts from a Lifetime Listener

February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 Jeremy Shatan 0 Comments Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bunny Wailer, Chris Blackwell, Coxsone Dodd, Island Records, Judy Mowatt, Lee Scratch Perry, Peter Tosh, Rita Marley, Studio One, the I-Threes

In continuance of our celebration of Bob’s 75th birthday, writer Jeremy Shatan picks his faves across all three eras of his tragically truncated career

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