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Booker T. & the M.G.s’ “Green Onions” was an unplanned recording by a group of musicians who never intended to form a band. “It was pretty much an accident,” guitarist Steve Cropper confirmed in 2014. “It was just one of those things that fell together by chance.” Nevertheless, the 1962 single from the album became the first #1 R&B hit for the gritty Southern soul powerhouse known as Stax Records.
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When George “Daddy Hotcakes” Montgomery sings “Mustard Greens,” his rich, rugged voice shifts from a call-and-response conversation about eating cornbread and mustard greens to lyrics about growing up in the country.
Hotcakes developed his style wandering across the South and taking on various performing jobs on the road. He settled in St. Louis in the 1940s, where he continued performing on the streets and entertaining people in St. Louis streetcars.
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The last, best album by the master musician who virtually invented New Orleans rock'n'roll piano. With Dr. John. W.C. Handy Award winner for Best Blues Album of the Year.
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The video for this song from "American Utopia" is a collaboration with the Detroit School of Arts, featuring the Vocal Jazz Ensemble and filmed in part by the students of the Radio and TV Dept. Speaking about the video, Byrne said: “When I saw what the DSA students did with my song, it completely changed the way I thought of the song. In face, it changed the meaning of the song — I realised it was about inclusion, welcoming and not being alone.”: www.youtube.com
This is a tribute to a soul food restaurant Jim Morrison ate at on Venice Beach called Olivia's, located on 2618 Main Street, Santa Monica, California. Morrison often stayed too late at Olivia's, where he liked the food because it reminded him of home and warmed his "soul." They often kicked him out so they can close, thus lines like: "let me sleep all night, in your soul kitchen."
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Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio released 'Close But No Cigar' originally in 2016 on Novo Productions, and was reissued by Colemine in 2018.
Check out the DLO3 Live on KEXP at Home session, including their chat with Gabriel Teodros from February 2021.
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Deems Tsutakawa, was a popular and esteemed Seattle jazz pianist. His keyboard work made him a local celebrity and a world figure. As a member of a family of artistic giants, he couldn’t escape his own role, and didn’t try.
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Nilsson wrote the word "coconut" on a matchbook during a vacation in Hawaii, thinking it would make a great lyric for a song. When he returned home to Los Angeles, he found the matchbook while he was driving down the freeway and wrote the song in his car.
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From their beginnings in 2005, the Carolina Chocolate Drops revived the almost-forgotten Black string-band tradition and introduced this music to millions of fans across the world.
The original band members — Rhiannon Giddens, Dom Flemons and Justin Robinson — learned their core repertoire straight from the source, an African American fiddler, Joe Thompson, then 85 years old, of Mebane, North Carolina.
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What's your favorite type of pie? Custard Pie going out to all the early morning bakers today!
Here's an interview with Jimmy Page on the "Swagger" of the album and how the band created a masterpiece: www.rollingstone.com
On this day in 1936 – Bluesman Robert Johnson is recorded for the very first time in San Antonio. Eight of those songs—including “Sweet Home Chicago” and “Terraplane Blues”—were captured during his first-ever session, on this day in 1936, in a makeshift studio set up in adjoining rooms of the Gunter Hotel in downtown San Antonio.
On this day in 1999 Beck released "Midnight Vultures", his 7th studio album.
Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass' "Green Peppers" was released on Whipped Cream & Other Delights, the album sold over 6 million copies in the U.S.
The album cover is considered a classic pop culture icon. It featured model Dolores Erickson wearing chiffon and shaving cream. The picture was taken at a time when Erickson was three months pregnant. The art was parodied by several groups including once A&M band Soul Asylum, who made fun of the liner notes along with the back cover on their 1989 EP Clam Dip & Other Delights.
88 year-old Herb Alpert is on tour this fall - he'll be at Edmonds Center for the Arts on October 21!
More tour dates, music, and info:
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The Whipped Cream model was a Seattle woman named Dolores Erickson. Back in the early ’60s she ran in the same L.A. social circles as Alpert, along with Jerry Moss, his eventual partner at A&M, and, maybe most importantly, the label’s eventual art director, Peter Whorf.
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Watch the Black Pumas Live at KEXP in-studio here: www.youtube.com
“Ice Cream (Pay Phone)" was written and co-produced by the band’s singer-songwriter Eric Burton and produced by guitarist Adrian Quesada. Burton wrote the fuzzed-out, falsetto-laced love song years ago, then further developed it with bassist/keyboardist Josh Blue during an impromptu session at two in the morning.
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Joshua Nucci is a 22 year old African American, Blackfoot Indian, Brazilian, Italian, and Portuguese visual artist, musician, and community organizer from Seattle, WA.
“Making music is a passion of mine. Playing especially with others brings me so much joy because it allows me to free my consciousness and connect with others in both spoken and unspoken ways. My ultimate goal is to bring people together, to create, and tell stories that uplift and inspire. It is my hope to create a platform and body of work in collaboration with community members I have met and will continue to meet during my lifetime.”
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Struttin' is the third studio album by the funk group The Meters, originally released in 1970. The first single was the song "Chicken Strut". It reached #11 on the U.S. R&B Singles chart.
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Generally acknowledged to be Black Uhuru's masterpiece as well as one of the defining documents of roots reggae, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (originally released on the Taxi label under the title Showcase) was the first album to feature singer Puma Jones as a member of the group's vocal trio lineup, and it was also their first with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare.
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UB40 recorded this as a cover of the Tony Tribe 1969 reggae version, which reached #46 in the UK charts. The band did not realize until after it topped the charts that Neil Diamond wrote it and originally recorded it. Lead singer Ali Campbell recalls in the book 1000 UK #1 Hits: "The funny thing about the song is we only knew it as a reggae song. We had no idea that Neil Diamond wrote it."
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Music For Your Mother is a compilation album by Funkadelic featuring songs recorded for Westbound Records during the band’s career with that label from 1968 to 1976. The compilation includes the A-sides and B-sides of every Funkadelic single released during Funkadelic’s tenure at Westbound.
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Catfish Blues by Jimi Hendrix was written by Robert Petway and was first recorded and released by Robert Petway in 1941.
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First released in 1961, the song Wang Dang Doodle is one of the quintessential blues songs of the 60s era in Chicago. In the 1950’s, towards the end of his songwriting career, Willie Dixon composed the lyrics and music to Wang Dang Doodle. The song was first recorded by the bluesman Howlin’ Wolf in 1960.
The blues singer Koko Taylor joined Chess Records in the summer of 1964. Willie Dixon immediately loved her sound, and in December of 1965 he convinced her to perform Wang Dang Doodle for Checker Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records.
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Shout out to William in Dallas for this request!
Ohio Players first charted 14 years after their formation or first release in 1973. Their last appearance in the charts was 1977. They had chart topping singles covering a span of 5 years. "Jive Turkey" hit #88 in 1974.
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Ohio Players perform this one live on "Soul Train": www.youtube.com
Written by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, the song was partly inspired by Wilson’s obsession with physical fitness in the late 1960s. In a contemporary article, he stated, “I want to turn people on to vegetables, good natural food, organic food. Health is an important element in spiritual enlightenment. But I do not want to be pompous about it, so we will engage in a satirical approach.”
Another reported inspiration for the song was a humorous comment Wilson heard about the effect of marijuana turning him and his friends into a “vegetative” state.
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King Curtis, born Curtis Ousley, was an American saxophonist, renowned for his contributions to the soul, funk, and R&B genres. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1934, Curtis began his musical journey at a young age and quickly gained recognition for his exceptional talent.
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Sampling Funkadelic's "Nappy Dugout" from 1973. They also sampled Freda Payne's 1973 "We've Gotta Find A Way Back To Love." -- Here are the lyrics: genius.com