Deep Tracks 65

1. Spark Plug – Melvin Sparks

2. Midnight Train – Jim & Jessie and the Virginia Boys

3. It’s Your World – Gil Scott Heron

4. Can’t Get Enough – Jimmy Smith

5. Africadelic – Manu Dibango

6. Hold On I’m Coming – Fred Ramirez

7. Just A Little Talk With Jesus – The Bluegrass Cardinals

8. Yield Not > Turn On Your Lovelight – Derek Trucks Band

9. Poppin’ – Boogaloo Joe Jones

10. She Thinks I Still Care – Lou Johnson

11. Kiss and Run – Buddy Miles

12. Mamblues – Cal Tjader

13. Sideway Shuffle – Unda Lewis

14. What You Can Bring – Watts 103^rd Street Rhythm Section

15. Be Bop Wine – The Lamplighters

16. Love Me Baby – Little Junior and the Blue Flames

17. I Got You Babe – The Majestics

18. Changes – Buddy Fite

19. Beware – Lou Courtney

20. Many Rivers To Cross – Little Milton

21. Walk That Walk – Eddie Bo

22. Sugar Hill – The Three Sounds

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I am not sure what connects me to Hillbilly music but I love stuff like the Virginia Boys "Midnight Train". Something about the accents, the speed and dexterity of the playing, and the great imagery. Don't know much about this band but they rip up this standard and check out the lids on these dudes.

What a great singer and songwriter Gil Scott Heron was. He embodies so much of the struggle that surrounded African American music: racism, drugs, corruption. His poetry remains powerful today and his best stuff from the 70's is classic.

Fred Ramirez boogaloos through the classic Stax hit Hold on I'm Coming. A terrific rearrangement of this song with a propulsive latin percussion and a timeless quality. Blistering.

Buddy Miles enjoyed brief fame in the late 60's drumming with Jimi Hendrix in Band of Gypsys and later with Carlos Santana in a freakin' volcano. Probably made this comp because of the dazzling fro.