Two For One
Mirror On America (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
To Be Invisible - (Curtis Mayfield) -performed by Gladys Knight Someday We'll All Be Free - Donny Hathaway
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Best R & B singers
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
For lovers of lists, here's one I found on the internet. Not a bad selection I have to admit. The Best R&B Male Singers according to DigitalDreamDoor.com http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/ 1. Jackie Wilson 2. Sam Cooke 3. Clyde McPhatter 4. Marvin Gaye 5. Tony Williams (Platters) 6. Curtis Mayfield 7. Smokey Robinson 8. Al Green 9. Roy Hamilton 10. Little Willie John 11. Solomon Burke 12. Ben...
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Steve Wallace - Urban Soul - 2009 - Steve Wallace Music
soulchoonz Y2K album reviews (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
An essential album. Steve Wallace drops a very classy and essential set of songs which takes today's urban soul music and places it into a collage of our daily life and times...or as he would put it "just another day in the heart of the city". It's very much like a musical testament for out times, and within the fabric of this CD there is much wisdom to be discovered. This is NOT the type...
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A good DJ, I think...
The Stu Reid Experiment (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
I’m in the midst of reading Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity which features music centrally as it tells the tale of Rob, the thoughtful and confused record storeowner. There are references to songs, albums, and artists throughout, but one chapter in particular struck me as particularly loaded with great tracks. It’s chapter seven, in which he describes his past experience as a DJ: For...
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Unsung Soul Man Leroy Hutson
Blackadelic Pop (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Not sure if you're down with windy city singer, songwriter, arranger and producer Leroy Hutson, but he is one of my favorite unsung soul men. A native of Newark, New Jersey, brother Hutson went to Howard University with Donny Hathaway (whom he collaborated with on the classic track "The Ghetto") and Roberta Flack. In 1971, he was hired by Curtis Mayfield to replace him in the Impressions....
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Leroy Hutson: Unsung Soul Man #1
Blackadelic Pop (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Not sure if you're down with windy city singer, songwriter, arranger and producer Leroy Hutson, but he is one of my favorite unsung soul men. A native of Newark, New Jersey, brother Hutson went to Howard University with Donny Hathaway (whom he collaborated with on the classic track "The Ghetto") and Roberta Flack. In 1971, he was hired by Curtis Mayfield to replace him in the Impressions....
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NPR To Profile 50 Great Voices
Mirror On America (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
NPR is seeking input from listeners for a series that will highlight 50 great singers. The list will eventually be narrowed down to 50 of the greatest, from all the nominations sent in. I will send in 50, but you don't have to send in a list that big....you can send as few as you like. The list below is not necessarily a list of my personal favorites, although NPR doesn't discourage that. Since the...
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It's raining outside this morning. I am...
Cliff's Crib (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
It's raining outside this morning. I am just starting to dry off. Remind me that I can't share a Dora Explorer umbrella with my baby and not get drenched. We may have to get something a little bigger for days like this. Despite the rain everything else is looking pretty good to me right now. Usually on a morning like this I would be playing some Donny Hathaway or some other music that usually puts...
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A Song For You
Strike Curious Poses (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
A Song for You was written by Leon Russell. It has been covered by so many music artists. This week a lot of people are writing about Whitney Houston's version of the song. It is one that she sang before at concerts but her version now is a dance version and it seems right that she is making her comeback with that song on her album. Thank you Paul for the great review you gave to the album. Donny Hathaway's...
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A Young Jay-Z Describes His Early Influences
VH1 (Free subscription) | 25/08/2009
Jay-Z cites Marvin Gaye and Donny Hathaway as early influences on his music career.
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George Benson - "Songs And Stories" 8/25
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master and 10X Grammy-winning, legendary musician George Benson will release his new album on August 25th entitled Songs and Stories, his second for Concord Records / Monster Music. The album is a collection of tunes penned by some of the most prolific and enduring songwriters of the last half-century. Some were written specifically for this new recording, such as...
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BR: The Fortress of Solitude (2003) by Jonathan Lethem
Ballad of a Tin Man (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
Before you get started: yes, that "Fortress of Solitude" is a reference to Superman's Ice Palace. It functions within this novel as a metaphor for, oddly enough, solitude itself, and/or the main character's preoccupation with / attachment to the block of his childhood home. Dylan, said main character, is the only white kid in a decidedly black and occasionally Latino neighborhood; his coming...
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George Benson - "Songs and Stories" - 8/25
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master and 10X Grammy-winning, legendary musician George Benson will release his new album on August 25th entitled Songs and Stories, his second for Concord Records / Monster Music. The album is a collection of tunes penned by some of the most prolific and enduring songwriters of the last half-century. Some were written specifically for this new recording, such as...
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George Benson - "Song and Stores" - 8/25
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 13/07/2009
National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master and 10X Grammy-winning, legendary musician George Benson will release his new album on August 25th entitled Songs and Stories, his second for Concord Records / Monster Music. The album is a collection of tunes penned by some of the most prolific and enduring songwriters of the last half-century. Some were written specifically for this new recording, such as...
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Twisted Tales: Supersized Soul Man Baby Huey Felled by Weight, Drugs
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Filed under: Twisted Tales He was, by all accounts, one of the most charismatic performers of the 1960s. George Clinton and the Rolling Stones studied his act, and he was signed to a record deal by Donny Hathaway and Curtis Mayfield . When this mountainous dancing machine collapsed in October 1970, the newspapers noted that he was the third major rock star to die within weeks. One headline read, "Jimi,...