Re your Maxwell comments, I think these "quiet storm" singers look back not to forceful gospel-rooted soul, but to late 1970s Smokey ala "Quiet Storm" and to Luther Vandross.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 June 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think of Irma Thomas as chitlin-circuit soul but sure enough in her rare appearance north at the free outdoor Duke Ellington Festival show at the Washington Monument she sang that song with words that go kinda "I Don't care what you do with my husband, just don't mess with my man." She sounded and looked great. Plus her large band-keyboard, organ and horns included-were tight. She's never gonna overpower ya like Etta or Aretha but she's got gospel-derived strength nonetheless. She did "It's Raining," but alas had no time to do (hah) "Time is on My Side."
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 June 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
The Bobbettes who had a hit in '57 with "Mr. Lee" did an out of the way DC area gig at Harmony Hall in Ft. Washington, MD recently that I missed. Now I see that they're gonna be on a Ponderosa Stomp goes to NY gig at Lincoln Center July 16th.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 July 2009 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Chitlin Circuit soul coming to hipsterland!
Dig Deeper and Eli "Paperboy" Reed present:> > > > >> The Brooklyn Soul Festival> > > > >>> > > > >> Featuring: Otis Clay, Barbara Lynn, Maxine Brown, Roscoe > > > Robinson,> > > > >> Hermon Hitson, Eli "Paperboy" Reed and the True Loves, and the > > > Sweet> > > > >> Divines.> > > > >>> > > > >> Two nights of full sets from legends of soul music from around > > > the> > > > >> country, rarely seen individually, never before on the same bill> > > > >> together � backed by two of the most in-demand bands in soul > > > music> > > > >> today. Before and after the live performances, top soul DJs from> > > > >> around the world will spin the finest 45s for the dancefloor.> > > > >>> > > > >> > > > > >>> > > > >> Day 1: Friday, August 28, 2009> > > > >> 8pm � 4am> > > > >> Barbara Lynn (The Soul Queen of the Gulf Coast)> > > > >> Roscoe Robinson (The Baron of Birmingham, AL)> > > > >> Hermon Hitson (The Georgia Grinder himself)> > > > >>> > > > >> Friday's artists backed by The True Loves, fresh off their > > > world tour> > > > >> with Eli "Paperboy" Reed, performing songs from his > > > forthcoming album> > > > >> on Virgin Records between sets.> > > > >>> > > > >> Day 2: Saturday, August 29, 2009> > > > >> 8pm � 4am> > > > >> Otis Clay (The Crown Prince of Chicago Soul)> > > > >> Maxine Brown (The Lovely Lady of New York Uptown Soul)> > > > >> The Sweet Divines (NYC's Old School Soul Sensation)> > > > >>> > > > >> Saturday's artists backed by The Sweet Divines and the Divine > > > Soul> > > > >> Rhythm Band.> > > > >>> > > > >> Come early - vinyl record & vintage clothing fair, vendors from> > > > >> around the world � No cover!> > > > >> 11am � 5pm> > > > >>
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 July 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
More obscure old soul than contemporary chitlin circuit soul but still good stuff. I saw Otis Clay in Maryland around 2 years ago, but none of the others.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Just heard another great Mel Waiters song-"Ice Chest"
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 July 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
e-mail from the boogiereport.com:
Ms Beverly Goodie or Ms. Goodie as she was known in the music industry died today 07-17-09 in the privacy of her Houston home.
Ms. Goodie, has worked with many entertainers, such as Little Milton, Tyrone Davis, Mel Waiters, Kenne' Wayne, Floyd Taylor, and currently with Lil Fallay. She was known as a popular and well loved promoter and artist manager.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 July 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Frank Kogan asks the question "What male singers over the age of fifty or acts fronted by a male singer over the age of fifty have made great popular music in the last decade?," which led me to realize I have no idea how old most of the Southern Soul guys that have been hitting this decade (Mel Waiters or Bobby Rush or Sir Charles Jones etc.) are. And most tend not to have Wiki pages. (Also not sure how consistently great their music is, though I expect many Chitlin Circuit over-50s -- both men and women -- have managed a great track or two in the '00s. If Curmudgeon or anybody has ideas, I'd be curious.)
http://koganbot.livejournal.com/156151.html
― xhuxk, Thursday, 30 July 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Just got back from a mostly tech-free vacation. let me think about this...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 1 August 2009 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Good Caramanica Times piece from over the weekend on the return of adult soul music (which had never gone away, as this thread demonstrates.) I'd never heard of "Detroit Ballroom" (apparently a rough equvalent of "Chicago Stepping") before, and Maxwell's music bores the heck out of me, but I still want to check out those K'Jon and Kem hits he talks about. Wonder if that new Al B Sure album is any good, too...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/arts/music/08soul.html
― xhuxk, Monday, 10 August 2009 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
A brand new dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My5fxLYGTVE
― xhuxk, Sunday, 23 August 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Will have to check this stuff out as well, though some of this adult-contemp soul like "quiet storm" stuff from the '80s and '90s always ends up disappointing me.
For another thread I need to discuss the Coney Island dancers I saw up there in Brooklyn on the boardwalk Saturday night, couples dancing and solo dancing uniquely to Latin disco stuff.
Meanwhile out in San Francisco I chatted with a longtime public radio dj who does a soul music show and he uttered the standard critiques of chitlin circuit soul--those terrible synths and cliched raunchy lyrics. I couldn't convince him that some of the synth work has improved and that there are some gems with decent enough lyrics.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 August 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks to being on a label that markets to the indie-rock world, Lee Fields is getting crossover attention. On my visit to San Francisco I heard him a bunch on KUSF (but no Malaco or Ecko artists), and I just read a recent Oliver Wang (of Soul Sides blog fame) piece on NPR's website on him. Meanwhile in my neighborhood, Field's still going for his usual crowd--he's gonna be doing a Labor Day weeekend gig down at Lamont's in Pomonkey, Maryland.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 12:27 (fourteen years ago) link
On the bill with Lee on Saturday the 5th is somebody named Maurice Wynn, plus great Maryland band the Hardway Connection, Donnie Ray, and others. Just read the following about Maurice, not sure if I have ever heard him:
Much to the consternation of his fans, Maurice Wynn has not been heard from since his great, turn-of-the-century single. "What She Don't Know" has become a staple of Southern Soul--one of those hits that define the very form--yet it remains a brilliant anomaly, like a comet streaking across the sky. And Wynn remains, whether by choice or circumstance, the proverbial one-hit wonder. --Daddy B. Nice
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
JK McCoy Rest In Peace The Boogie Report has learned that Music Industry Veteran JK McCoy died yesterday in Montgomery.
McCoy who's given name was Bruce Knight was discovered yesterday when he didnt respond to several attempts to contact him.
McCoy who was CEO of JK Consulting had worked as a radio announcer throughout the southwest he also was the founding editor of the Chitlin Circuit Magazine.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Some folks on the Yahoo Southern Soul e-mail group are raving about Tommy Tate : " When hearts grow cold " CD I have not heard it yet
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
So several months later, the Southern Soul show on KAZI Austin is now playing an entirely different song also apparently called "I Need A Bailout," slower and less clever and less comical and less catchy than local guy Larry Shannon Hargrove's one (which is still my favorite Southern Soul song of the year, and one of my overall top ten singles). The new one says the guy has two college degrees but got caught with either 10 K's or 10 Keys (as in kilos?), plus his wife left him, so now "like Fanny Mae, AIG, and Chrysler, I need a bailout." It's okay, I guess; don't really recommend it, but do wonder who does it.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 24 September 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Mel Waiters "Everything is Going Up (but my paycheck)" is pretty good too.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 September 2009 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
soul and blues report.com top 25 http://www.soulandbluesreport.com/sbr/top_25.html
September 4, 2009
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1 1 Everything Is Going Up Mel Waiters Waldoxy 2 2 Man Enough Karen Wolfe B & J 4 3 Forbidden Love Affair Vick Allen Soul 1st. 3 4 Gone On Marvin Sease Malaco 6 5 I Ran A Good Man Away Lacee Advantage 7 6 Cheatin' On The Cheatin' Lenny Williams Lenlon 5 7 Upside Down Shirley Brown Malaco 8 8 That's My Story Chairman Of The Board Surfside 12 9 Dog Caught By The Cat Donnie Ray Ecko 9 10 Ms. Jody's Thing Ms. Jody Ecko 18 11 Rehab T. K. Soul Soulful 11 12 Boy Toy Pat Cooley L&L 10 13 The Beauty Shop Omar Cunningham Soul 1st. 14 14 The Recipe Bigg Robb Over25sounds 13 15 I'm A Woman Nellie Tiger Travis CDS
15 16 Lock My Door Jeff Floyd Wilbe 19 17 Meow J. Blackfoot JEA/Right Now 24 18 Around The World Latimore Latstone 22 19 Dance The Night Away Willie Clayton C&C Ent. 20 20 Love Under Arrest Lil Fallay Tubor 17 21 One Night Stand Andre Lee Capetown 21 22 On The Back Road Terry Wright MacWright 25 23 Sex Appeal Charles Wilson CDS - 24 Dirty Woman David Brinston / Blackfoot Ecko 23 25 Look Good For You
Carl MarshallMs. Jody
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 September 2009 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not that NPR doesn't like black music. It merely maintains a strict preference for black music that few actual living African-Americans listen to. Rosen from his slate.com piece
While Jody Rosen kinda has a point with his critique of NPR for only playing black people who are Dead, Old, Retro, or Foreign (DORF), NPR does not play folks on this thread even though they're old(except maybe for Lee Fields who happens to be on an indie-rock label now). I am wondering if Rosen has even seen any of the folks written about on this thread.
I wonder if Jody Rosen of Slate has every heard any of this stuff, or gone to a show
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 25 October 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I need to catch up on recent Southern soul releases
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 October 2009 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I hate when old soul artist gigs are marketed only to (generally white)record collector geeks and indie rockers, but this show was fun even though the $25 price and the obscure names kept the Sharon Jones fans away (and the middle-aged DC African American audience never even knew about the show)...Here's what I posted on the Numero label thread--
Just saw the Eccentric Soul review tour before a small DC crowd. Syl Johnson was a lot of fun--seemed drunk but his raspy soul vocals on numbers like "Any way the Wind Blows," "Come on, Sock it to Me," and "Take Me to the River" sounded great. He was carrying on between several songs about royalties he got from Wu Tang Clan and Kid Rock samples, and he was happily reminiscing about his 1968 appearance at the Howard Theatre. Plus he was wearing a Megadeth t-shirt under his sports jacket. Renaldo Domino wasn't bad and the young backing band JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound were kind of uneven, but mostly impressive. The Notations harmonies and gold jackets were awesome, although they spent too much time doing jokes and schtick.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:56 AM (9 hours
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
While the above gig got some attention, tonight's O'Jays and many more Philly soul '70s revue at DAR Constitution Hall in DC has been just advertised on quiet storm radio and via an e-mail thing marketed to suburban Maryland based African-Americans (and me!) so it's getting little crossover attention from record geeks or mainstream media.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome old-school Beaumont, Texas left-handed guitarist singer Barbara Lynn is at the Library of Congress for free at lunchtime/noon and at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage for free and webcast on the K. Ctr site from 6 to 7 today Wednesday November 18th. Check her out on youtube. She had a hit in 62, and another one later that the Rolling Stones covered. Plus Moby sampled her. She's as cool as anyone connected with the Eccentric Soul revue. Maybe even indie-rock Sharon Jones & the Dap-kings fans would like her.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I think my W. City Paper preview is the only publicity the Lynn show has gotten.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
She was good not great. I liked her soul material more than the blues stuff and the Elvis cover.
My longtime local faves the Hardway Connection always do well down in the Carolinas with the beach music crowd. Saw this on a blog (some interesting stuff by North Carolina freelancer Dariel B on it):
http://darielb.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/beach-blues-rock-a-big-ole-fish-shtick/
November is going to be a great month for music fans along the S.C. Grand Strand. If Carolina beach music is your bag, a special weekend of Carolina Beach Music Academy (CBMA) awards, live music and shag dancing is set for Nov. 11 – 15
On Saturday, the CBMA Benefit Cookout & Showcase gets started at noon and runs until 3 p.m. The pig pickin’ is being hosted by Carolina deejays Big John Ruth (102.9 FM) and Neal “Soul Dog” Furr. Gary Smith (WLWL 770AM) will host the showcase, which features the Taylor Manning Band along with the Tim Clark Band plus some surprise artists singing to tracks.The Industry Awards show, hosted by deejays Chad Sain and Ray Scott starts at 4 p.m. at the Spanish Galleon. Get there early. This is a popular event (Saturday passes are required this year.). Saturday night shows include the Fantastic Shakers at the O.D. Beach Club; The Castaways AND Hardway Connection at the Spanish Galleon; Holiday Band at Fat harold’s; Tommy black & Blooz at Duck’s and The Souls AND the Sand Band at Pirate’s Cove.Sunday morning is the popular band fair (and yes, some of them are awake) where fans can meet the artists, get autographs, photos, Ced, T-shirts and more.The culmination of the weekend is the annual awards show held at the Alabama Theatre in North Myrtle Beach. R&B performer Clifford Curry (“She Shot a Hole In My Soul,” “We’re Gonta Hate Ourselves In the Morning,” “Beach Music & Barbecue”) is scheduled to perform. So is Nashville’s soul blues artist Rickey Godfrey The 2009 inductees into the Carolina Beach Music Hall of Fame include R&B singer Chuck Jackson, probably best known for his 1962 recording of “Any Day Now” (Burt Bacharach-Bob Hilliard). He recorded the classic “How Long Have You Been Loving Me” on Carolina Records, a collaboration with Charles Wallet, who penned “Brenda,” O.C. Smith’s 1986 hit single.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.cammy.org/winners.html
Hardway Connection won best National Dance/Shag Song with "Dirty O' Man”
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 November 2009 06:23 (fourteen years ago) link
And Hardway still have no website, no myspace...Nuthin. They're gigging from the Maryland African-American burbs on down through the Carolinas pretty regularly it appears. I think they might even be at Lamonts tonight(a club that has no website). Amazing.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I gotta call the Hardway folks and do an article. It's been 10 years now since I wrote a feature on them for the Washington CP. I wonder if that Carter Barron gig they did then was their last show in DC itself.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 November 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Still lots of Southern soul for me to catch up on. Heard great songs from Jeff Floyd and from Miss Jody over the weekend. It's too bad the cheesy synths Ecko was once known for have scared many away from this genre (or at least this thread!).
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 November 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
xchuckx come back, otherwise it's just me talking to myself here (unless folks are lurking).
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.soulandbluesreport.com/website/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=9
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I should post that list over on the best magazine and websites of 2009 thread just to offer something other than indie-rock (even if this list is not a critics one or even a year-end one).
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 12:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes I should. Waiting for Hardway's guitarist to call me back. It's like these guys don't want publicity.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 December 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://bluescritic.com/southernsoulbluescharts.htm
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 December 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm still lurking here, btw, curmudgeon; just have somehow, inadvertently, fallen out of the habit of tuning into the Southern soul radio shows here, so I don't have much to say. "I Need A Bailout" by Larry Shannon Hargrove and "There Goes My Baby" by Charlie Wilson did make my Pazz & Jop singles ballot, however. And in the past couple months I've picked up these old chitlin circuit albums used for $1 each.
J. Blackfoot - Physical Attraction (Sound Town 1984)Freedom - Are You Available (Malaco 1984) Little Milton - Annie Mae's Cafe (Malaco 1986)O.B. McClinton - Album No. 2 (Hometown Productions 1986)
Freedom is an interesting self-contained-band mix of down-home red-clay soul and chubbier early '80s commmercial funk (including a Prince cover). That's the only one I've played so far, though I already think it's interesting that Blackfoot covers "I Don't Remember Loving You," a great loss-of-one's-mind song that was a country hit for John Conlee.
Also bought these $1 albums back in October; like both Blands (esp the 1974 one), but haven't gotten to the Smith one yet.
Bobby Bland - Dreamer (Dunhill 1974) (w/ "Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City," later sampled in Jay-Z song of the same name)Bobby Bland - Get On Down With (Dunhill 1975) (w/ covers of Merle Haggard and Charlie Rich songs)O.C. Smith - Hickory Holler Revisited (Columbia 1968)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 19 December 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
O.B. and O.C. probably techically more "African American country" than "Southern Soul," though it's a fine line of course. And they'll always be lumped in with actual southern soulster O.V. Wright in my head.
― xhuxk, Saturday, 19 December 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, those all look great. I forget which old Bobby Bland vinyl I have. I just know a few J. Blackfoot songs, and only know O.B. and O.C. by name. O.V. Wright is the man.
I just decided last minute that another OB, OB Buchana (no periods just OB), has released my southern soul chitlin circuit fave album for the year, "It's My Time" on Ecko. He has previously done that great song "Southern Soul Country Boy". Most soul nerds will knee-jerk snear at the Ecko synths and the lyrics but I think it goes beyond those stereotypes.
It's available for sale as a download from Amazon, I-tunes and Ecko, in addition to other formats.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
He's not breaking any new ground, he's just exhibiting the best qualities of the genre
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 December 2009 08:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Here's Daddy B. Nice's bio of OB Buchana
http://www.southernsoulrnb.com/artistguide.cfm?aid=56
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 December 2009 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Daddy B says his name is "O.B." not "OB" . Not sure who is right.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 December 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
He doesn't get much media attention based on the quick google search of websites, news, and blogs I just did. One Brit blogger, one Frenchman and a few US southern soul biz sites.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 December 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe 2010 will be the year that the Southern soul will get some crossover attention.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 January 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm gonna post a Washington City Paper blog post soon on Maryland's Hardway Connection. I spoke recently to their guitarist/songwriter/bandleader. Now I just have to reach the other hard to find DC area soul folks. Then I can move on to reviewing more Southern soul in general (when I'm not busy with my dayjob, family, etc.).
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 January 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
From the Boogie Report:
We regret to report that Bluesman Earl Gaines Past away this afternoon in Nashville. In 1955 Gaines joined up with Louis Brooks & His Hi-Toppers as lead singer and scored a #2 R & B smash "It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day)," which has become his signature song since. The outfit didn't score a followup hit and Gaines went solo for the same label, Excello, in addition to Champion and Poncello resulting a slew of unsuccessful singles. During this time he sang lead for Bill Doggett's band. In 1966 he finally snagged a hit under his own name with "Best Of Luck To You" (#28 R 7 B) for the HBR label. He subsequently recorded record for Hollywood, Athens Deluxe/King and Seventy-Seven, including "Hymn Number 5". Gaines recorded a single for Ace in 1975 ("Drowning On Dry Land") but then embarked on a fourteen year hiatus from the studio and working as a truck driver. He resurged in 1989 with a new album "House Party" on Meltone Records, and this began his eventual comeback thanks in large part to producer Fred James. James, a Nashville- based producer whose affection for the classic Excello sound also resulted in the resurrection of onetime label staples including Clifford Curry and Roscoe Shelton; for Appaloosa, Gaines issued his 1995 comeback effort, "I Believe in Your Love", and in 1997 he also joined Curry and Shelton for a joint live recording. Since then he's appeared on a host of labels, culminating in his 2008 CD for Memphis-based Ecko Records. (Courtesy BluesCritic)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 January 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm guessing Chitlin Circuit roots can be heard on these 2 Memphis, Tenn. related '09 archival releases I'd like to hear:
. Various Artists , Designer Records Reissues (Big Legal Mess/ Fat Possum)
From the mid-'60s to the late-'70s, record moguls Style Wooten and Charles Bowen recorded gospel acts in Memphis.
George Jackson, In Memphis 1972-1977 (Ace Records)
This U.K. compilation gathers together the work of Southern soul songwriter George Jackson.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I need to start posting youtube videos on this thread. Here's an old OB Buchana song "This Party is a Mutha"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO62r6oapkg&feature=related
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 03:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder if the old-school soul purists who hate Ecko and Malaco synths and Southern Soul lyrics will ever come back to this thread? Maybe they're lurking.
So has anybody out there on the internetz heard of a club called Peachez in Upper Marlboro, Maryland? I hear they're booking Southern soul there.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
The Boogie ReportJan.03 2010 1.I Don't Want To Leave -Shirley Brown 2.Everybody Knows -The Revelations fea Tre Williams3.My Dog -Marvin Sease4.You've Been Good -O.B Buchana5.Do What He Didn't Do Nellie Tiger Travis6.Shake Your Money Maker -Willie Clayton7.Please Can You Lend The Soul -1st Allstars8.Bring It On Home -Sir Charles Jones9.Run'n -Stephanie Pickett10.Just Aint Good -James Smith11.Blind Snake -Bobby Rush12.I Wouldn't Beg -Bigg Robb13.Juicy Lips -Lacee14.I'm Hooked -Vick Allen15.The Right Woman -Omar Cunningham16.Grown Folks Bizness -Kello Aman17.Around The World -Latimore18.Southern Soul Party Groove -Karen Wolfe19.Rehab -TK Soul20.I Dont Mind -Special
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 January 2010 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
As I expected, since Lee Fields '09 cd was marketed to indie folks he got 7 album votes in the Voice critics poll (696 voters), but only me voted for OB Buchana. He is on Ecko and that label does market to indie-rockers or college radio listeners. Some of those retro-soul folks that get NPR crossover stories got votes-- what's that blue-eyed guy's name--Hawthorne , I think.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 January 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link