Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Funky16Corners Radio v.56 - Solar Heat Playlist Little Richard – Land of 1000 Dances (Okeh) OV Wright – I Love the Way You Love (Backbeat) Ovations – Dance Party (Goldwax) Five Dutones – Shake a Tailfeather (One-Derful!) Benny Spellman – I Feel Good (Atlantic) Performers – I Can’t Stop You (Mirwood) Aretha Franklin – See Saw (Atlantic) Willie Mitchell – That Driving Beat (Hi) Benny [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Allen Toussaint talks of his sporadic, unbought solo work and the royalties from the hits he's created for others with equal affection. The 70-year-old New Orleans legend has written, produced and arranged for The Band, Glen Campbell, the Pointer Sisters and most points in between, while staying rooted in his home city's R&B.
Diddy Wah (Free subscription) | 29/04/2008
Muxtape is a new fun site for sharing music. It's very simple to use and seems to exist in the same magical legal precinct that most mp3 blogs and music podcasts reside. Since becoming aware of it, I've enjoyed rifling through a variety of trendsetters' muxtapes and it was certainly only a matter of time before I made my own. Most of the tunes I've chosen come from CDs I acquired over five years ago...
the "B" side (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
I Like It Like That, Part 2 AN INSTANT OF TOUSSAINT As you know, I'm a huge Allen Toussaint fan. Like Professor Longhair before him, his creative genius has taken New Orleans music to the next level again and again over the course of the last fifty years. He was the subject of my very first post , and I've gone so far as to call him the patron saint of The B Side , as I don't believe there's anybody...
