Sunday, February 28, 2010

Deep Tracks 83

1. Swing Low Sweet Chariot-Curly Seckler
2. Cherry Wine-Little Esther Phillips
3. Wakasikirei Satani-Bhundu Boys
4. Leave My Woman Alone-Freddie King
5. One Night Affair – Seldon Powell
6. Everybody Wants To Fall In Love-Solomon Burke
7. Grand Funk – Jackie Mittoo
8. Rocket 69 – Todd Rhodes
9. The Prodigal Son – Harold Ousley
10. No Luck To Run – Zamali
11. LA Sunshine – WAR
12. Gentle On My Mind-Caecilie Norby
13. Gospel Feeling – Weldon Irvine
14. Poor Man – Little Milton
15. I Can’t Get No Higher – Eight Minutes
16. A New Day – Jack Lomax
17. Evil Ways – Richard ‘Groove’ Holmes
18. Sweet Virginia – Rolling Stones (Live ’72)
19. Senor Boogaloo – Wally Richardson

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The Bhundu Boys were a Zimbabwean band that played a mixture of chimurenga music with American rock and roll, disco, country, and pop influences. Their style became known as jit, and is quite popular across Africa, with some international success. The name came from bhundu (meaning "Bush" or "jungle"), in reference to the young boys who used to aid the nationalist guerrilla fighters in the 1970s war against the white minority government of what was then Rhodesia. Lead singer Biggie Tembo (Biggie Rodwell Tembo Marasha) was just such a Bhundu boy.

Jackie Mittoo was a Jamaican keyboardist, songwriter and musical director. He was a founding member of The Skatalites and was a mentor to many younger performers, primarily through his work as musical director for the Studio One record label. His brilliant compositions integrated funk, R&B, mento, calypso. Grand Funk is a wicked early 70's jam.

LA Sunshine is about as positive a groove as one could possibly compose about Los Angeles and it's ubiquitous sun. WAR was a multiracial and multiethnic band that originated in fertile ghettos of Chicago during the end of the 60's. The band flourished throughout the 70's scoring several hits and evolving personnel. Just a really sick band.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for your post of ESTHER PHILLIPS!
    We must never allow her to be forgotten! We
    must continue to keep her alive in memory!

    LOVE & BLESSINGS,
    LINDA WARN

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