Tag: Soul
Daily Dose: Jesse Mac Cormack, “Where We Meet”
Here’s wishing all you lovers a lovely Friday night.
Daily Dose: Frazey Ford, “Done”
Daily Dose: Zea and the Copper Children, “Lonely”
Old soul, rock and roll ain’t gonna die but it will come from on Rocky Mountain high.
Daily Dose: Leon Bridges, “Coming Home”
Leon Bridges is an anachronism: a soul unbound by time blessed with a sound that is ageless. I’ve been trying to craft an introspective post on this man’s music after tripping across it on Spotify sometime around March. Unfortunately, I’ve never found the words to do it justice. So in lieu of the perfect prose, I’ll let the music’s perfection speak for itself.
Enjoy this track from what many will inevitably call the best album of 2015.
Daily Dose: Super-City, “Don’t Go”
Daily Dose: Chastity Brown, “After You”
Daily Dose: Cathedrals, “Harlem”
Jukebox Classic: Otis Redding
This here is one of my all-time favorite artists: Otis Redding. No other performer is able to capture the gut-punching urgency of love like this man, in this song. His voice, oh his voice is thick with the consumption of love as he forces the soul of each word into the microphone. Beatific.
Brain Connection: “Grandma’s Hands” and “No Diggity”
The greatest thing about the present is the ability to know the past. That’s why it’s called the present: because that ability is a gift. What we do, what we are now is a patchwork of all the things that came before us. Whether or not this is a conscious facet of our existence depends on our engagement with what surrounds us and the frequency of self reflection.
There are always links. We just need to pause, look and listen to find them. Doing this the other day, my brain immediately connected the 1996 Bilboard sensation “No Diggity” by the utterly forgettable Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dr with Bill Withers’ 1971 classic “Grandma’s Hands” from the album Just As I am.
The first video below is Bill Withers performing some of his iconic songs for the BBC in 1973. The roughly 30 minute show can be seen in its entirety HERE. The second is the official music video for “No Diggity” that dominated the MTV airways, and all of my Middle School dances.
Nostos Algos 