Category Archives: mp3s
Howard Tate – Ain’t Nobody Home
Here’s old pic of Howard and his two little brothers. Howard Tate – Ain’t Nobody Home Look. I wish there were an easier, cheaper way to get your hands on the incredible Get It While You Can, but for now, you can listen to this song or look for the pretty good Rediscovered from 2003, [...]
Sam Cooke – That’s Where It’s At
Man, Sam Cooke is the greatest. Peter Guralnick wrote a great chapter on him in his 1986 book “Sweet Soul Music,” and that piece of writing continues to inspire. If there is time enough, I’ll post again about the great versatility, charisma and business-sense that made him one of the most important artists of the [...]
“Just, please do not dis on this track!”
A song for a good friend of mine. Money Mark – Sometimes You Gotta Make It Alone buy Mark’s Keyboard Repair on triple 10″ vinyl!
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About Kids pt.2
okayyy so these ones are maybe a bit dirtier than the last batch. But the sentiment remains. Cody ChesnuTT – The Seed Sprites – Make A Baby With Me Thanks to Sally F. for that last one! …and here’s what you do once you have one: David Bowie – Kooks
Brothers!
“Live a lifetime of surprise/ We’ll all become magicians and leave the wonder in their eyes” mp3- Emmet Otter’s Jug Band – Brothers big thanks to Recidivism for making these tracks available. buy the dvd –
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Too Good To Be Bad
People have cast insult after insult at me for liking the following two bands. But in this age of apology, where Al Jarreau gets a week to himself, I’ll go ahead and give it one more shot. Here are a couple of tunes–both using the guitar theme from the Beatles’ “Getting Better,” I might add–that [...]
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Fleet Foxes
This is a cowboy band. Yup. There is certainly a western flick/fire and brimstone vibe to their tunes (esp. “Mykonos”). Like some dark judgment awaits this band of outlaws out on the plain. And hey, I’m all for it! Kinda reminiscent of the Sand Rubies, an AZ band from the 90′s. Fleet Foxes – Oliver [...]
James Carr
With a voice somewhere between Otis Redding’s honest crackle and Percy Sledge’s C+W twang sits James Carr, Goldwax Records’ Next Big Thing in the late 1960′s. Here are a couple of tunes from Razor & Tie’s out of print The Essential James Carr, an excellent collection from 1995. “I Gotta Go” wasn’t released until long [...]
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