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Sunday, Jan 29 2023, 12PM
Recorded with The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach at Easy Eye Sound in Nashville.
Video!
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In 2021 Aaron Frazer performed live at The Jalopy Theatre in Brooklyn, recorded exclusively for KEXP Live at Home.
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aaronfrazermusic.bandcamp.com
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Originally written and recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1967.
The original track features session band The Funk Brothers with James Jamerson on bass. Today is Jamerson's birthday, born in 1936 in South Carolina. He passed in 1983 at the age of 47.
Released this day in 2021.
On "Road Of The Lonely Ones", Madlib used a couple of tracks from The Ethics, a Philadelphia soul group from the '60s. Madlib left their soft, longing falsetto vocals mostly intact, shaping the track around them.
Check out a great NPR feature on the Madlib / Four Tet collaboration on Madlib's new 'Sound Ancestors' album:
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Featured on the album "Everybody Needs Love", released in 1967. The single went to number one on the Billboard R&B chart and number two on the Billboard Pop chart and became the biggest selling Motown single to date.
Collaborative EP from Seun Kuti, the youngest son of musician, Fela Kuti and featuring vocals from The Roots member, Black Thought. Kuti said of Black Thought's contribution:
"Black Thought delivers a message that connects us to the future, understanding that present and knowing that past. Every time he speaks, he shows this connection and it means that he is a great artist, able to help the people to be at the right point in history."
www.seunkuti.net
Benny Sings (Tim van Berkestijn) is a songwriter, producer, and artist from Amsterdam.
"Young Hearts" comes out in March: bennysings.bandcamp.com
"Little Lies" was co-written with her husband at the time, Eddy Quintela. It was released on the 1987 album "Tango in the Night".
This track was recorded live at the Kennedy Center on May 1, 1972 (part of a Marvin Gaye Day celebration in Washington DC). It was his first concert after the death of Tammi Terrell in 1970.
James Jamerson is on this track, playing bass.
Released on this day in 2021.
Celeste sampled Nina Simone's 1965 track "Sinnerman" in "Stop This Flame". Check out the video! youtu.be
www.celesteofficial.com
Kassa Overall will release the eagerly awaited third installment of his critically-acclaimed "Shades of Flu" mixtape series on Bandcamp. The release, coincident with the first Bandcamp Friday of 2023 (this Friday!), is the third remix project to appear on Kassa's half-serious pandemic-inspired imprint FLU NOTE.
kassaoverall.bandcamp.com
www.kassaoverall.com
New single, produced by Lions Flow in France.
Video at www.youtube.com
Released this day in 2021.
Watch London poet, singer, and songwriter Arlo Parks' exclusive live performance on KEXP Live at Home, recorded in 2021:
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www.arloparksofficial.com
Singer-songwriter from Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Featuring Johnny Hodges on saxophone.
This compilation features recordings from 1947 to 1961.
DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy threw a party in the Bronx on August 11, 1973. That party is widely considered to be the birthplace of hip-hop — 50 years ago. KEXP celebrates this seminal event all year. This week's spotlight year in 1987. www.kexp.org
From the debut album released on July 7, 1987.
Rakim [William Michael Griffin Jr.] turned 55 yesterday!
New music, released on Friday!
J.Rocc has been the DJ for Madlib's live shows since the early 2000s and was the 3rd member of Jaylib (J. Dilla and Madlib) for live shows.
jrocc.bandcamp.com
From his 1998 debut solo full length. Pete Rock samples "I Ain't No Joke" and "My Melody" from Eric B & Rakim's debut album "Paid in Full" and Public Enemy's "Public Enemy No. 1".
Don't miss the PBS retrospective "Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World", which debuts this Tuesday, and hosted by Chuck D. www.pbs.org
This song is about the police and how they tend to treat Black Americans.
Rest in Peace, Tyre Nichols, avid skateboarder and photographer. thiscaliforniakid2.wixsite.com
From South Carolina, songwriter/composer/producer Khari Lucas performs as Contour.
"The record exists as a bridge in conversation between today's artists and art of the past which offered potential ways to navigate the world that we're in; personally or on a larger scale" says Contour.
ar-contour.bandcamp.com
Out this Friday!
kassaoverall.bandcamp.com
www.kassaoverall.com
3.15.20 is the fourth album/mixtape - a surprise release - by Childish Gambino. All the song titles are the timestamps for where the songs appear.
Rumors of Childish Gambino's retirement is premature. "I'm making music right now. I love it. I'm in the studio, I've been bringing people in, like secret people, like working on little things. But I'm just making it for fun right now. But soon, something will happen I promise. Something will happen."
Jamar Rolando McNaughton, popularly known as Chronixx, is a Jamaican reggae artist. His stage name replaced the name "Little Chronicle" which he was given because of his father, the singer "Chronicle". chronixx.com
Here is Chronixx performing "Black Is Beautiful" live in the KEXP studio in 2017 - bit.ly
Jessica Smyth is an Irish singer and rapper. Born in Cork, she lived in Spain for a time and performs in both Spanish and English.
Bubblegum released earlier this month.
www.biig-piig.com
Sudan Archives will be at Showbox SoDo on May 4th with Caroline Polachek.
The second album, Natural Brown Prom Queen, details her passages between her hometown of Cincinnati and her adopted city of Los Angeles.
sudanarchives.bandcamp.com
"Cupid Deluxe", Dev Hynes, second album as Blood Orange, is full of guest appearances from artists like David Longstreth from the Dirty Projectors, Caroline Polachek (on this track), Samantha Urbani, Clams Casino, Kindess, and more.
Hynes said the album was inspired by, "New York City, the Big Apple. I lived in Brooklyn for some time and finally made the leap into Manhattan. So a lot of the record is about that, transitions, life transitions. Moving from a stable position to an unstable position. Something we have all been through."
bloodorange.net
Ging is a Toronto producer, formerly known as Frank Dukes, who has produced records for Ghostface Killah, BADBADNOTGOOD, The Weeknd, SZA, and others.
wayofging.bandcamp.com
The Ramones' 10th studio album, and the last to feature drummer Richie Ramone. There was a lot of disagreement between the band during the production of the album, however, Johnny Ramone shared "I Wanna Live", "Weasel Face", "Bop 'til You Drop" and "Garden of Serenity" were the albums "highlights" in his book "Commando".
Jack White released two albums in 2022. "Fear of the Dawn" was the first, releasing in April, and was followed by "Entering Heaven Alive" in July.
jackwhiteiii.com
Berlin based Afro-Jazz group Jembaa Groove was founded by German producer and bassist Yannick Nolting and Ghanian percussion legend and vocalist Eric Owusu in late 2020. This is their debut album.
www.jembaamusic.com
Sampa the Great was Live on KEXP in August of 2022: bit.ly
The Zambian-Australian singer-songwriter also created an exclusive DJ set for KEXP's Midnight in a Perfect World in 2019. You can listen here: bit.ly
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This song sampled Webster Lewis' 1981 "Open Up Your Eyes."
SZA will be at Climate Pledge Arena on March 16th.
www.szactrl.com
Milo [Rory Allen Philip Ferreira, R.A.P. Ferreira] was born in Chicago, and now lives in Nashville.
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"Yes, my skin is black, but that's no reason to hold me back." The Temptations celebrated their 60th anniversary in 2021. www.temptationsofficial.com
Neal Francis was live in the KEXP studio last year: www.youtube.com
"I just wanted to be honest about everything, from my musical influences to my story," muses Neal Francis. After years of dishonest living - consumed by drugs, alcohol, and addiction - such sincerity is jarring from the 30-year-old Chicago-based musician. Liberated from a self-destructive past and born anew in sobriety, Francis has captured an inspired collection of songs steeped in New Orleans rhythms, Chicago blues, and early 70s rock n' roll. There is a deep connection between Francis's childhood - his obsession with boogie woogie piano, his father's gift of a dusty Dr. John LP - and the songs he's created. The result is an astonishing collection of material without parallel in the contemporary funk and soul scene. The influences are unmistakable: the vocal stylings of Allen Toussaint and Leon Russell; the second line rhythms of The Meters and Dr. John; the barroom rock 'n' roll of The Rolling Stones; the gospel soul of Billy Preston; the roots music of The Band. Francis pays tribute to the masters but has his own story to tell: "It's the life I've lived so far."
nealfrancis.bandcamp.com
www.nealfrancis.com
"Kingdom Come" is a cover. It was written by Tom Verlaine and was first released by him on his self titled debut in 1979.
Tom Verlaine, frontman for Television, passed away yesterday in New York. He was 73.
The fifth studio album from the brilliant Atlanta duo André 3000 and Big Boi was a double LP - a disc from each artist. The two albums' featured guests included JAY-Z, CeeLo Green, Killer Mike, Goodie Mob, Lil Jon, Ludacris, Sleepy Brown and Jazze Pha, on "Speakerboxxx"; and Rosario Dawson, Norah Jones, Kelis, and Fonzworth Bentley on "The Love Below".
The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio played this magical cover as part of a Live on KEXP at Home set, hosted by John Richards, back in February 2021: youtu.be
Thanks for listening. Evie is up next!