Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 01/23/2010
Booker T and the MGs: Green Onions, Live in Oslo, Norway 4/7/67 Don't waste a second. Go buy this DVD right now. (Stax/Volt Revue Live In Norway 1967) Sam & Dave, Otis Redding... wow! this concert captures Memphis Soul at its absolute peak. Booker T and the MGs were the house band at the Stax Records label, playing back up to a host of great soul artists. Their big hit, "Green Onions"...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 01/23/2010
Booker T and the MGs: Green Onions, Live in Oslo, Norway 4/7/67 Don't waste a second. Go buy this DVD right now. (Stax/Volt Revue Live In Norway 1967) Sam & Dave, Otis Redding... wow! this concert captures Memphis Soul at its absolute peak. Booker T and the MGs were the house band at the Stax Records label, playing back up to a host of great soul artists. Their big hit, "Green Onions"...
Kendra Steiner Editions (Free subscription) | 12/24/2009
What a nice surprise to find that we are discussed in the new “2009 Rewind” issue of the much-respected UK free-jazz/experimental-music magazine THE WIRE (#311, January 2010). Included in the same two-page spread as Jad Fair and Drumbo (that’s an honor in itself!), there is a piece called “Chapbook Renaissance,” written by longtime friend of [...]
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Artwork copyright 2009 – Miles Grogan (age 5) Funky16Corners Radio v.76 – One For the Kids – Funk and Soul for Children of All Ages Playlist Rufus Thomas – Do the Funky Penguin Pt1 (Stax) Shirley Ellis – The Clapping Song (Congress) Village Soul Choir – A-B-C’s (Abbott) Freddy & the Kinfolk – The Goat (Dade) Electric Company feat Morgan Freeman and...
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Greetings all! This rebroadcast of the 2007 Funky16Corners Halloween Spooktacular mix is a mid-week Halloween placeholder of sorts, to keep you all in the spirit until I return on Friday with a very solid slice of Halloween soul. I hope you dig it and I’ll be back on Friday. Peace Larry Originally posted 10/29/2007 We Now Return to Blacula Meets Black [...]
Each Note Secure (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
For those of you under 40, myself included, who don’t know about the rich history of Cincinnati music, this book is for you. Yes, there was a time when Cincinnati was a pioneer in the music industry and King Records was an important player in that game. And there is a brand new [...]
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
This second volume covering the hits of Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five picks things up in the chronological list of hit singles where Volume 1 left off. Please see my review of that initial volume. Note also that, for some reason, they spell the name of his group "Tympani" on both the covers and CDs, whereas any reference I have shows it as "Tympany." Also for the record, here...
Triablogue (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
-i- Edmund Prescott III was a secular humanist, and proud of it. A graduate of Cornell, he didn’t believe in witches, ghosts, God, angels, demons, Santa Claus, or the Tooth Fairy–in no particular order. The Christian faith was a crutch, a pacifier, for overgrown children. No “god” wrote out the plotline for his life. Edmund was the master of his fate, the captain of his soul....
El Campeador's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
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WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
Here are a few vocal renditions of songs that are usually delivered instrumentally. Margie Singleton - Magic Star (Tel-Star) (1:47) - Believe it or not, Bobby Rydell also cut a vocal version of this one. Sonny James - Apache (2:37)...
Puritan Blister (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
1. Divisible- Exit Music For A Film (Radiohead) 2. The Mountain Goats- Cathedral Song (Tanita Tikaram) 3. Kim Fowley- Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf) 4. Doog- Headache (Frank Black) 5. Jeff Buckley- Kick Out The Jams (MC5) 1. Hood Internet- I Rhymed Slow In 1991 (Nice & Smooth vs Crystal Castles) 2. BC- Star Of The Party (David Bowie vs Jay-Z) 3. Dan Mei & Marc Johnce - Private Human (Dusty Springfield...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
Accountant who wished to be remembered as a writer
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
HOUSTON /PRNewswire/ -- Saxophonist Larry Slezak brings an assured swing, a warm soulful tone, and a wealth of experience to No Worries, his first CD as a leader, which is set for release by Houston's Tierra Studios on November 25.(Photo: )The New York native and longtime Houston resident is joined on the recording by his Hammond Organ Band-veteran guitarist Clayton Dyess; bassist Thomas Helton; the...
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Greetings all. This is going to be a busy couple of weeks. We have Halloween this Friday (thus the repost of last years Funky16Corners Radio Halloween Spooktacular), Election Day next Tuesday - for which I’ll be posting something cool - and then in the middle of next week the four year anniversary of the Funky16Corners Blog, for [...]
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Funky16Corners Radio v.59 - Hammond Madness! Playlist Dave Baby Cortez – Twine Time (Roulette) Georgie Fame – The In Crowd (Imperial) Jackie Ivory – Thank Heaven (Atco) Mark 3 Trio – Mr G (Downhill) Al Kooper – Soul Hoedown (UA) Bill Doggett – Fingertips (Columbia) Leon Haywood – A River’s Invitation (Convoy) RD Stokes – Partying Groove (II Bros)...
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