Tina Turner – Workin’ Together Today would have been my mother’s 68th birthday. She grew up in the same West Tennessee locales as Tina Turner. […] Read More
Category: Ephemera
Lester Young – They Can’t Take That Away From Me “Laughing To Keep From Crying” is a phrase that I’ve used far too many in […] Read More
Anushirvan Rohani – Mullah Muhammad Jaan Over the weekend Egon of Now-Again records held a pop-up record store at his Rappcats location in Highland Park. […] Read More
Booker Ervin – Mojo So much bad Juju in the world right now, felt a need to work some magic charms to try and get […] Read More
Relfection Eternal – 2000 Seasons Given that “A Tree Never Grown” has been on my mind with all of the death we’ve been collectively mourning […] Read More
Dr. John – Glowin’ A character in a classic movie of yore once said that “every Hero needs their theme music,” but I think that […] Read More
Pharoah Sanders – Healing Song The first half of 2016 has been a really tough year on many fronts, but especially in terms of loss […] Read More
Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges – O Trem Azul Here in the States, it’s almost time for Memorial Day weekend, which is the unofficial start […] Read More
Billy Paul – Let The Dollars Circulate Before recently leaving town for Cuba, I’d meant to post something brief in tribute to Billy Paul, who […] Read More
Prince & the Revolution – Raspberry Beret Yesterday was a fairly normal Thursday. Here at the end of the semester I was busy trying to […] Read More
As always, it will be my pleasure to spin a Guest DJ at LA’s finest soul and deep funk weekly get down, Funky Sole at […] Read More
Modrý Efekt & Radim Hladík – Cajovna So…it seems it’s taken me a bit longer than I originally thought it would to get through all […] Read More
Last night I went to sleep early after a long day teaching classes, grading and watching some election coverage…I woke into a world without one […] Read More