sweet soul music
D’Angelo and The Soultronics (Questlove, drums; Pino Palladino, bass; Chalmers “Spanky” Alford, guitar; Frank Lacy, trombone, trumpet; Anthony Hamilton, vocals, et al.), “Send It On,” live, London, 2000
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940
yeeeowww!
James Brown, “Sex Machine,” “There Was a Time,” “I Got the Feelin’,” live (TV show), 1982
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lagniappe
art beat
Dawoud Bey (1953-), New York (Harlem), 1970s
sounds of Chicago
Baby Huey, “Hard Times” (C. Mayfield), 1971
Stand Up Guys, 2012
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lagniappe
art beat
Helen Levitt (1913-2009), New York, c. 1940
sounds of Chicago
The Dells, “A Heart Is a House for Love,” 1991
The Five Heartbeats, 1991
two takes
More from the Motor City.
“What Becomes of the Brokenhearted” (W. Weatherspoon, P. Riser, J. Dean)
Jimmy Ruffin (1939-; David’s brother), 1965
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Mitch Ryder (with Don Was, bass, et al.), live, Detroit, 2008
more
O.V. Wright (1939-1980)
“God Blessed Our Love,” “When A Man Loves A Woman,” live, Japan, 1979
*****
“I’d Rather Be Blind, Crippled, And Crazy” (Back Beat, 1973)
*****
“A Nickel And A Nail” (Back Beat, 1975)
old school
O.V. Wright (1939-1980), “Into Something (Can’t Shake Loose)”
Live, Japan, 1979
*****
No other soul singer—not Otis Redding, not Al Green, no one—gives me such chills.
tonight
These guys will be at FitzGerald’s (see yesterday’s post)—me, too.
St. Paul and the Broken Bones, “Broken Bones and Pocket Change,” live, Nashville, 2012
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Went to Mercury Lounge tonite. I have seen the future of music & the name of the band is St. Paul & the Broken Bones.
—Rosanne Cash, Twitter, 6/5/13
2n
D’Angelo (vocals, keyboards) & Questlove (drums), live, New York, 2013
“Africa”
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“Tell Me If You Still Care”
old school
Arthur Conley (1946-2003), “Nothing Can Change This Love” (S. Cooke), live (TV show), Netherlands (Amsterdam), 2001
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