Eddie Kendricks solo - RFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z7cceAj3H8

anthem!!!!!

otm

i really enjoyed listening to he's a friend and goin' up in smoke, especially the latter!

I have always loved “He’s A Friend”, the song. Kendricks goes full-bodied Philly. I’m pretty sure it was the first song of his I heard as a teen back in ‘76.

badu’s flip of “intimate friends” for “fall in love” is one of the better moments of new amerykah pt 2

I want to say thank you for this revive, which prompted me to check out more of his (excellent) albums, but I also just put on People...Hold On for the first time in a while and I think it might actually be one of the best albums ever made

welcome, rob. the only decent thread i ever made, which is now unfortunately mostly broken youtube links, was inspired by Eddie and others doing similar things: lush post-1970 soul music from motown / tamala / atlantic is the best shit ever

Ooh nice, I will check that out. For some reason with soul I've gone deep on individual artists rather than broad on the genre or labels or even smaller scenes (which is sort of the opposite of my approach to most other genres) and have always meant to remedy that.

On a different note from that thread (I think), I'm tempted to start one for songs that sound like Eddie Kendricks' "My People...Hold On"

check out "just my soul responding" by smokey robinson. i think it has a similar vibe.

wow, this isn't quite what I had in mind (basically something a bit more avant/spiritual jazz-like), but it's really incredible, thanks!

It feels like the title track could be a nexus of a cracking playlist of like-minded/like-sounding stuff: Midnight Band/Sly/War/Archie Shepp/Terry Callier/Voices of Harlem/Philip Cohran/Art Ensemble.