A much needed Black Music thread.
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from the early 70,s....Millie Jackson Loving Arms.....she flew under the radar, but a great song and such a soulful powerful voice
from the early 70,s....Millie Jackson Loving Arms.....she flew under the radar, but a great song and such a soulful powerful voice
You're finding some great old relics!
Sounds like I'm going to have to work on my play list!
Gotta thank Tik Tok for turning me on to some of the current stuff:
with a tip o' the hat to Paul Anka for the underlying sample...
with a tip o' the hat to Paul Anka for the underlying sample...
You are more open minded than me I listened to about a minute of this tune and I gave up.....just call me closed minded about todays music
there is so much to glean from music years back......just listen to the background music of a lot of commercials you see today......im stuck in the 50,s 60,s and 70,s...….oh and get off my lawn lol..
So true. Many of the songs of those era are timeless. Sadly I don't think much of any of the music that has come out the past decade will have the same distinction.
I figured that wouldn't be much up your alley my friend
I'm not a fan of much of today's music but actually I don't mind Doja Cat, some of her tunes are pretty catchy. Say So is one of my guilty pleasures Actually the hook for me on "Freak" was the "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" sample. White as the driven snow. I love most kinds of popular music, but my absolute classic favourites, and what occupies most of my 160 gig Classic iPod is mid-sixties to early 70's soul, funk, blues, and even r&b based disco from 1974 to the early 80's. Also early rap and hip hop, until it got too gangsta and/or misogynistic for me.
Was really into early blues from Robert Johnson, through Muddy Waters, Big Joe Turner, most of the "jump blues" guys, BB King, and even the white blues guys like John Mayall with Eric Clapton, and later Mick Taylor and Peter Green, not to mention the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and now Joe Bonamassa, to name a few.
I find most 90's and later r&b a bit too polished, but that's cuz my heart is in the classic era of "soul music".
However I am sucker for early samples in modern hip hop, eg. the "Want Ads" long version (by The Honey Cone), used as the base for "Because I'm Me" by The Avalanches, released a couple of years ago. And there was another one not too long ago that used the Isley's "It's a Shame" as it's foundation.
Anyways I posted some of my mid-60's soul and "deep soul" faves several weeks back in this thread, and that's where my heart lies and what I listen to most. I also love '60's girl group and Phil Spector stuff, but none of that is exclusive.
Heck, I even like Patsy Cline, Buck Owens and His Buckaroos, and Junior Brown. Also some Beethoven, but not much for opera (but even then some exceptions) lol.
Anyways, long long story short, we all like what we like, and I think this has been and continues to be a great thread. One of these days I'll post a Disco flood!!!
thanks xmontrealer for sharing your thoughts..for the most part I share your tastes....hell I love Patsy Cline,s music and I even have a George Strait cd lol.....and make no mistake as a lowlife that he was Phil Spector produced great music...Ronettes, Darlene Love, the list goes on....a white blues band I discovered decades ago was the Barry Goldberg Blues Band...yep a jewish guy singing the blues
If it had a tune, discernable lyrics and an arrangement which wasn't techno mush, it would be slightly below average crap. I guess.
Here's Michael Bloomfield doing "I'm Glad I'm Jewish" in a traditional country blues style:
Some other great Jewish blues musicians:
Peter Green (Greenbaum) of early Fleetwood Mac
Ronnie Earl (Horvath)
Buzzy Feiten
Danny Kalb
Arlen Roth
Harvey Mandel
Steve Freund
Al Kooper
Bob Margolin
"Ramblin'" Jack Elliot
Willie "The Lion" Smith (Jewish father)
Bob Dylan ( sorta kinda sometimes)
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Moses Smith..Girl Across The Street...……………….Northern Soul...yea
Moses Smith..Girl Across The Street...……………….Northern Soul...yea
