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Covay resettled in Washington D.C. during the early 1950s and initially sang in the Cherry Keys, his family's gospel quartet. He crossed over to secular music with the Rainbows, a formative group which also included Marvin Gaye and Billy Stewart. Covay's solo career began in 1957 as part of the Little Richard Revue. A single "Bip Bop Bip" was released on Atlantic and produced by Little Richard, on...
Darrell Banks spinning, Lee Dorsey in the on-deck circle “Listen - Rex Garvin - I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)- MP3″ Mighty Hannibal – Jerkin’ the Dog (Shurfine) Don Covay – Sookie Sookie (Atlantic) Lee Moses – Day Tripper (Musicor) Eddie Holland – Leaving Here (Motown) Henry Lumpkin – Soul Is Takin’ Over (Buddah) Billy Davis – Stanky Get [...]
After Peter Wolf ditched the J. Geils Band in 1983 because co-leader Seth Justman turned down a batch of new songs Wolf had written with Don Covay and Michael Jonzun, he made the most of it and released the great Lights Out album. Boasting a huge hit single, the bouncing, machine-funk monster title track, and [...]
After hearing the news of a possible Faces reunion, I spent the better part of the last few days watching live clips of the band in their 1970s heyday. In the process, I came across this recently-posted YouTube clip of...
For the last week the doctors and nursemaids here at the asylum have been ridin’ the midnight soul train and listenin’ to a perfect blend of magic medicine from…Martha and the Vandellas “Dance Party”, Otis Redding “Otis Blue”, Aretha Franklin “Lady Soul”, Four Tops “Reach Out” and Ray Charles’ “The Genius of Ray Charles”. A few weeks back we posted about our favorite soul sister #1, Koko Taylor. Well,...
You want to talk about a Dream Team? Forget about basketball - instead think of the Soul Clan . Formed in 1968, it included Solomon Burke, Ben E. King, Arthur Conley, Joe Tex , and Don Covay , five heavyweights of soul at its artistic height. Originally Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett were going to be on board as well - can you imagine that line-up, damn?!!? Unfortunately, by the time the project kicked...
Dear Patients: We apologize for the lack of updates over the past week. Turns out that the Internet over here at the asylum has been unreachable. To make up for this abrupt outage we have been stockin’ up on heavy doses of sheer madness via prescription pharmaceuticals and shooters of hillbilly moonshine. Our rock ‘n roll stethoscopes promise to have this problem sorted out soon. Er, not the hillbilly...
For more of Roy Kasten's SXSW coverage, see the A to Z blog. There were two soul acts on my must-see list: the legendary Darondo and the unknown Black Joe Lewis. I was shut out of the former, but the latter was playing a free day party in the parking lot at Club Deville and I [...]
U.S. Army-Jody (mp3) Hawks-Joe The Grinder Quincy Jones-Boogie Joe The Grinder Jimmy Coe-Run, Jody, Run "Jody Calls" Wordorigins.org: The military use of jody was introduced to the U.S. Army by African-American soldiers. Jody is a clipping of the name of...
Q.An item sold in an eBay auction a few weeks ago has caused controversy, which no one can settle. Perhaps you can. A copy of Don Covay's 1965 album, "Mercy!" (Atlantic 8104), went for $250, which is about 10 times it...
- Question: Where has real Hip-Hop gone? Answer: In Common's hands, where it's always been. When Nas said that Hip-Hop was dead, he couldn't have been talking about Common. The 35-year old rapper -– whose birth name is Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. -– released his seventh studio album, entitled “Finding Forever.” Incredibly soaked with beats by Kanye West, this album is bound to go in Hip-Hop history. Most...
Don Covay and the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band: If There's a Will, There's a Way From Different Strokes for Different Folks (Janus, 1970). Also on Funky Yo Yo . Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth: Lots of Lovin' (remix) From 12" (Elektra, 1993) Common: Southside From Finding Forever (Geffen, 2007) When I first heard the "Southside" during a listening session, my automatic thought was, "ah, 'Ye is flipping that...
It's no secret: big rockstars had the habit of shamelessly stealing Blues, R&B and Funk material. But I like to believe that most of the time, when they were inspired by such things or when they “covered” older songs, they were doing something great. The first track of the first LP of Steppenwolf (Steppenwolf, 1968) is [...]
Host: Michael Kaiser Michael Kaiser is a Mau-Mau! No, Wait! He’s a Martian. In fact he’s his own Favorite Martian chosing select choice cuts of fine Prime cuts from the likes of The Real Kids, New Bomb Turks, Roky Erickson, Don Covay, Ray Campi, Stud Cole, Sarek’s Son, and of course, The Grave Diggers!! This episode actually turned [...]
