I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Oliver Wang of the legendary Soul-Sides.com for his new series “The Sidebar” so far he’s hosted truly excellent interviews with my soul brother Matthew Africa, Jesse Thorn of the Sound of Young America and Tom Brenneck of the Dap-Kings, Menahan Street Band and the Budos Band (If you want to subscribe to Oliver’s Side Bar podcasts via Itunes, just click here). We chat about my love affair with radio, selling most of my records for our wedding back in 2004, a subject I broached earlier here on this blog, and we spend time discussing several “Summer songs.” It’s really hard to narrow down the variety of tracks that could be regarded as great songs that remind me of summer, but I chose Arthur Lee & Love’s “The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This,” Althea & Donna’s “Uptown Top Ranking,” and Donald Byrd with the Mizell Bros.’ “Dominoes.”
Even though the finished podcast is about 34 minutes, our total conversation was over an hour, so Oliver has included some of the best bits of the rest of our conversation as out-takes. Enjoy!
Side Bar Episode 8: Michael Barnes with Oliver Wang of Soul-Sides.com
Side Bar Outtakes
Music used in the podcast:
The Boris Gardiner Happening – Melting Pot – Is What’s Happening (Dynamic)
The 5th Dimension – Wedding Bell Blues – The Age of Aquarius (Soul City)
Love – The Good Humor Man Sees Everything Like This – Forever Changes (Elektra)
Althea and Donna – Uptown Top Ranking – 7″ (Lightning)
Alton Ellis – I’m Still In Love With You – Sings Rock and Soul (Coxsone)
Donald Byrd – Dominoes – Places and Spaces (Blue Note)