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This one’s another Holy Crap Alert.
I’d occasionally come across Darondo’s name — that he was a little-known but much-respected, much-collected soul/funk dude from the 70s, and that he was back touring again — but until recently I never got the chance to hear him. And… Holy Crap! Alert!
Ubiquity Records released a CD in 2006 containing [...]

Ssion (pronounced shun) have been on my to-check-out list all year, but it wasn’t until Mrs. H slipped me this remix that I finally got some in my ears.
Ever finally find out about a band and then really regret not having done so earlier? Like, maybe two months ago, when they brought their insane-ass flamblistic [...]

This was in my head as I woke up this morning.
Lieber & Stoller were supergeniuses, and their stuff with the Coasters was just unreal. I would have loved to have been in the room when this was worked up — I bet they were laughing so hard they knocked the bong over.
 
The Coasters - Along [...]

I had this one song I was saving up for Friday, but I guess it’ll have to wait until next Friday because I just have not been able to get “The Glamorous Life” out of my head, and who would want that anyway?
“The Glamorous Life” sounds just like a Prince song and was produced by [...]

Plush’s Fed (the work of Chicago fella Liam Hayes and associates) is one of those albums where the story of the music’s creation is inseparable from the music itself.
Wait, no it’s not! Enjoy!
Plush - Whose Blues from Fed

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Isn’t this the way it always goes? There’s some kind of music you think you’ve got a handle on, you know what it’s about, you appreciate it. Then all of a sudden there’s this rush of interest in it in the world, and you’re like what? James Murphy is totally into 70s disco? So you [...]

This song was what inspired me to do a Covers Week last week. But then as I started to post it, I realized that it wasn’t really a cover song, since “Tennessee Waltz” is more of a standard.
So now you get to hear it on Regular Monday!
Anna King made one album (the James Brown-produced Back [...]

How I wish someone would speak those words in my house and have it be true!
If there’s a soundtrack in heaven, no way is this song not on it. Perfect.
Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness from Love & Understanding (out of print, but you can get this on The Best Of Kool & The [...]

This one’s a special dedication to Mrs. Vegetables. We have many “our songs,” but this one’s a classic.
I know that Parliament/Funkadelic gets a lot of props, but still I just don’t think it’s enough. Shouldn’t people be shouting about them from the rooftops every single day? I feel almost the same way about Prince. Don’t [...]

You don’t need me to tell you Isaac Hayes was the man.
From 1973, here’s Black Moses putting his inimitable stamp on Bill Withers’s “Use Me,” from one of the greatest live recordings I’ve ever heard.
Isaac Hayes - Use Me from Live At The Sahara Tahoe (insound / amazon CD / amazon mp3 / itunes)