24-Carat Black - Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday (CD/LP) Numero Group NUM025, 2009-07-28 Classically trained Detroit arranger Dale Warren got his start with the famed Motown label and, from the late 60s throughout the early 70s, composed the majority of string scores for soul artists on Stax Records (arranging for such artists as Billy Eckstine , Eddie Floyd , Isaac Hayes , Albert King , and the Staple...
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This will definitely be filed under those posts that nobody reads, but we’re tickling our music geek gland here at Toxic Towers by building our own Music Town, just like the city that Jefferson Starship built using only rock’n’roll. So no more introduction is needed to this spiel. Here goes… Streets • Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan • Across 110th Street - Bobby...
Last night was the final Young Offender's Institute at 93 Feet East of 2009, and I played records for a couple of hours, which was great because it was the busiest its been. And to prove we went all festive, here's a load of santas playing round-the-table ping pong... My theme for the night was covers, and the original artist is in brackets below. I also played a couple of Christmas numbers in my set,...
The venerable Stax Records celebrates its 50th anniversary, and HDNet is there to capture it for this special concert premiere, Sunday February 17th at 8:30 p.m. ET. Hosted by Public Enemy's Chuck D and Randy Jackson of American Idol, the lineup includes Angie Stone, the Reddings, Booker T. and the MGs, Mavis Staples, Isaac Hayes, and more. Related posts: Playing Your Song: Detroit Concert Venues...
Well we tried, I think we tried quite hard, but perhaps some people aren't prepared to try quite as hard as we did, or be in any way open minded. The next time I hear someone say there's nothing going on Northern Soul-wise in our area, I may well scream. The next time I'm DJ'ing and I get asked for any of the following trio: Barbara Mills - Queen Of Fools Edwin Starr - Time Mood Mosaic - A Touch Of...
Due to some top luck, I found myself at the Stax Museum in Memphis on Friday night. It's essentially a re-construction of the original building with a Brit School type music academy attached, and they have periodic evenings when the school band play a concert in the studio (a meticulous replica of the original in the original place). Friday was one of those nights, and its no exaggeration to say that...
It does our heart good to see that one of the awesome photographs that Jacob Blickenstaff took at our Sir Lattimore Brown benefit at the Banks Street Bar in New Orleans last April has been selected by The Soulsville Foundation for use on a poster advertising the upcoming Still Life In Soul exhibit at The Stax Museum . The exhibit, which features thirty nine other stunning Blickenstaff portraits of...
I was just listening to a Best of Sam and Dave album. In the intro to I Thank You, someone says: I want everybody to get up off your seat And get your arms together, and your hands together And give me some of that o-o-old soul clapping with the last three words practically sung. An even better intro, though not a better song, is on their You Don't Know What You Mean to Me, which has an almost preached...
In this, my 400th post would you believe, I'm tackling the sixties and listing the 75 great soul men of the decade. There are many to choose from but these, in my humble opinion, are the creme de la creme. So here goes, starting with my top ten, and then moving on to others of note: 1. Sam Cooke (who else at number one?), 2. Otis Redding, 3. James Carr, 4. Wilson Pickett, 5. O V Wright, 6. Al Green,...
This song is on my top 10 list of the 70's disco hits. When this song came out, all of the disco's were playing it. I bought it on vinyl. This was AMII STEWART 's first single, a disco cover version Eddie Floyd's KNOCK ON WOOD reached number one in the U.S. in April 1979, and earned Amii a platinum record and also a "Grammy Award" nomination. Today Amii is working as a goodwill ambassador...
Bruce Springsteen turns 60 today, and I'm not feeling so good myself. I decided to see if anybody had anything interesting to say about this day. David Hinckley in the N.Y. Daily News doesn't do a half-bad job. Salient point:...
Maybe rock 'n' roll is just a video game soundtrack now, or part of a lifestyle collection at Hot Topic, or that noise coming out of the TV when someone's trying to sell you a truck or a beer.
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