Right now my mind is pretty consumed with trying to figure out what I’m going to spin during this Saturday’s Make It Funky! Music & Arts Fest in Chinatown, but I had to post up a little something about this exceptional compilation from the folks at Soundway. If you checked out Side Dishes #1 with Oliver Wang of Soul-Sides.com you’ve already heard a couple tracks on this double CD collection of obscured songs out 1970s Nigeria. Add this devastatingly funky instrumental from the Comrades and you STILL haven’t scratched the surface! With 33 total tracks, all of them top shelf material, you could get lost in these sounds for days and days and days.
For this week’s show I decided to switch things up a bit. Most weeks I do this show, I spend hours upon hours figuring out how I’m going to fill up the 2 hours I have with you each week. My focus generally is on new music, with probably 70-80% of the music being things that have recently been released or are upcoming and the rest being classic material that connects to these new sounds in one way or another. As a new tradition (and since the show is so new, any tradition would be new), I decided to dedicate the last Sunday of the month to vinyl, think of it as a “Dig Deep” edition of Melting Pot. I don’t plan out these all vinyl shows, just bring in a couple boxes of records and see what develops. This first go round, there was a fair amount of music that I’ve featured here in the Dig Deep section, which makes sense, since all the things I feature here are in my collection. In the future I’ll likely be bringing in guest DJs to spin a guest set or two all on vinyl, stay tuned for more on that in August.
At the top of the second hour, this week’s show also had our first guests at Melting Pot, Chad and Derek, the organizers behind Make It Funky: Music & Arts Festival in Chinatown (DTLA) July 31st! I’ll be posting more on “Make It Funky” this week and next, since I’ll be doing a little mini set on the main stage late in the proceedings. Unfortunately, I had double technology issues, first with DJ equipment, which robbed us of a guest DJ set from the ReMitch of Soul Sessions, and then my recording of the show blanked out just about at the end of the interview (which explains why it ends so abrubtly on the audio that’s here), but I just did some quick edits to bring everything back together, I think we only missed a minute or two, just the round-up and thank yous. We’re back to regular programming with a bunch of new releases next week and potentially a performance or two…Audio is up for a month, enjoy the show and make sure to spread the good word.
{opening theme} Boris Gardiner – Melting Pot – Is What’s Happening (Dynamic)
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Harvey Mandel – Wade In The Water – Cristo Redentor (Phillips)
The Purpose – Dustcracks, Bugs & Roaches – The Purpose (ABC)
Gal Costa – Hotel Das Estrellas – Le Gal (Phillips)
Barry Goldberg – Sittin’ In Circles – Reunion (Buddah)
The Heliocentrics – Space Time Girl – 12” (Now-Again)
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The Spectrals – Don’t Mind – 7” (Slumberland)
John Barry – …And How To Get It – The Knack: Original Soundtrack (United Artists)
Eva Pilarova – Vazky – EVA (Supraphon)
Johnny Hammond – Call On Me – Gambler’s Life (Salvation)
Sergio Mendes & Brazil ’77 – Love Music – Love Music (Bell)
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3 Titans – College – 7” (Dunham)
Mandrill – Fencewalk / Hagalo – Composite Truth (Polydor)
Eddie Palmieri – Oyele Que Te Conviene – Unfinished Masterpiece (Coco)
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Joe Farrell – Upon This Rock / Seven Seas – Upon This Rock (CTI)
Interview with the organizers of Make It Funky!: Music & Arts Festival (July 31st in Downtown LA/Chinatown)
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Myron & E with the Soul Investigators – On Broadway – 7” (Timmion)
Jimmy McGriff – The Now Thing – Soul Sugar (Capitol)
Sugar Billy Garner – Super Duper Love – Super Duper Love (Fast Track)
Toni Tornado – Aposta – Toni Tornado (Odeon)
Tim Weisberg – Tyme Cube – Hurtwood Edge (A&M)
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The How – Polly – 7” (555 / Slumberland)
The Sorrows – Teenage Letter – Take A Heart (PRT)
Canned Heat – Whiskey Headed Woman No. 2 – Boogie With Canned Heat (Liberty)
Reflection Eternal feat. Mos Def & Mr. Man – Fortified Live – 12” (Rawkus)
Cactus – You Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover – Cactus (Atco)
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{closing theme} Kenny Baker – Mississippi Waltz – Plays Bill Monroe (County)
{Congrats to Linka O. & Daen L. for winning the passes to see Sleepy Sun!}
Neo-psychedelic group Sleepy Sun will be in town performing at Spaceland here in Los Angeles on July 23rd. If you’d like to go to the show, send me an e-mail to michael[@]meltingpotblog.com by 12noon on Thursday, July 22nd. Sleepy Sun is a fantastic band on record, with a wide range of sounds and textures to their music, but they put on an even better live show! Here’s some evidence on both counts…
{Update, this one didn’t go on Ebay, so I took it up to Groove Merchant and traded it pretty much straight up for this!}
Got a few additional pictures up for this one because it’s currently on auction over at Ebay. I don’t run into too much original Jamaican vinyl these days, so when I saw this at a local record store, I just had to pick it up. From what I’ve been able to gather, Winston Turner was a trumpet player from JA, and this record was the debut release for him and his group, which also featured Roland Ashby (Piano/Organ), Boysie Williams (Bass), Joe Graham (Drums) and Tony DaCoata (Vocals) in 1967. I’m not sure if the group cut a second record, but this one is quite a rarity.
For the most part the music here is what I’d term “supper jazz,” instrumental versions of popular tunes, including in this set “It Was A Very Good Year,” “Monday, Monday,” “El Cid,” and “Don’t Make Me Over.” What separates this record from similar “recorded at Hotel lounge” albums is the sound. The record has this deep sound, which is best experienced on a very loud sound system or in really good headphones. On the tracks mentioned above when Turner’s trumpet plays, it comes through so clean you can really feel the notes.
Though Turner’s trumpet isn’t heard on it, “Take It Easy” is the best example of what I’m talking about. Everything sounds gigantic, especially those rock steady drums. As much as I like Hopeton Lewis’ version of this track, I’d put this one just slightly behind Prince Buster’s live and wild rendition with the added “have some fish & chips with a cup of tea” lyric (unfortunately, those brilliant lines are only to be had on Prince Buster’s version), just because of that great sound of the drums. The band also plays with great spirit on the two Calypso tracks here, “Obeah Wedding” and “Love In The Cemetery”.
Aside from the music, another reason this is a great collectible and rare record is the original sleeve. As you can tell from the pics below, Federal was a record label that really cared about its consumers and wanted to make sure they took proper care of both their records and turntables.
That level of attention is something that is sorely missing in our current digital times, but that is after all the reason we keep digging for original vinyl.
Last year around this time I was heavily impressed with Orgone’s performance at the Funk Rumble Block Party in Chinatown (BTW, Funk Rumble part 2, “Make It Funky” is coming up soon July 31st! More info on that shortly). I loved the way they effortlessly shifted their funky focus, from an opening instrumental working of Peter King’s “African Dialects” to “Who Knows Who,” their own original material featuring sassy vocalist Fanny Franklin. Their new album “Cali Fever” builds off of the promise their debut “Killion Floor” hinted at as they dig deeper down the well of funkiness, with some afro-beat flavors on the title track and on “Mantanza,” to even some late 70s vibes, especially on “The Only One” and “Time Tonight” (though that track shows that someone is a fan of the Gossip’s post-punk sound on “For Keeps”…).
Several songs still feature the tough and rough funk of the debut, including “Crazy Queen,” where the boys take the rhythm to their previously released (On the Time Tonight 12″) instrumental “The Big Escape” and add Fanny’s vocals into the heavy funky mix, and instrumentals like “The Last Fool” and “The Cleaner.” All in all, a fine funky time and another reason to think that the center of the current Funk/Soul revival may be shifting from the east coast to Los Angeles.
This week we had the debut (right at the start of the second hour) of a new monthly feature on Melting Pot at KPFK, a set put together by Oliver Wang of Soul Sides. Oliver is an old friend from back at Berkeley, where we both went to graduate school and worked at KALX Berkeley, the freeform radio station there. He’s been a music journalist for a decade or more and runs one of the best audioblogs around in Soul Sides. Every third Sunday of the month, “Side Dishes” will feature several of Oliver’s picks, this week including several smashingly good compilations from Soundway records and Vampi Soul. “Side Dishes” is also available as a podcast from Oliver’s website if you click here.
The rest of the show features new music from Best Coast, Rakaa (of Dilated Peoples), M.I.A., Adam Franklin, The Pepper Pots, Tita Lima and more. Next week we have the organizers of Make It Funky (Funk Rumble Block Party Pt. 2!), coming in to discuss what should be one of the summer’s best concerts, currently set for July 31st in Los Angeles’ Chinatown. I’ll also be doing a vinyl-only show next week, which I think will probably be a tradition for the end of the month from here on out. Audio for this show will be here for a month, so listen in and tell a friend about Melting Pot on KPFK!
Playlist: 7-18-2010
{opening theme} Booker T. & the MGs – Melting Pot – Melting Pot (Stax)
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Rastus – Sailin’ Easy – Rastus (GRT)
Menahan Street Band – The Contender – Make The Road By Walking (Dunham)
Quantic – Dub Y Guaguaganco – Dog With A Rope (Tru Thoughts)
Sahr Nagaujah & Antibalas – Upside Down – Fela! (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (Knitting Factory)
Cochemea Gastelum – Guardian Angel – The Electric Sound Of Johnny Arrow (MRI)
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The Pepper Pots – Real Tru Love – Now! (Black Pepper)
Jackie Lee – Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide – 7” (Mirwood)
Neverever – Blue Genes – Angelic Swells (Slumberland)
Tita Lima – Mundo Pequeno – Possibiliadades (Label A)
Foreign Exchange – Take Off The Blues – Leave It All Behind (Halls Of Justus)
Orgone – Mantanza – Cali Fever (Ubiquity)
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Rakaa feat. Mad Lion – Observatory – Crown Of Thorns (Decon)
Connie Price & the Keystones feat. Aloe Blacc – Tell Me Something – Tell Me Something (Ubiquity)
Saravah Soul – Alforria – Cultura Impura (Tru Thoughts)
Soul Investigators – On Broadway – 7” (Timmion)
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Side Dishes with Oliver Wang of Soul-Sides.com #1:
{theme} The Nite-Liters – Down & Dirty – 7” (RCA)
The Funkees – Breakthrough – The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria (Soundway)
Lijadu Sisters – Life’s Gone Down Low – The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria (Soundway)
Cumbia Siglo XX – Nagal Pegale – Palenque Palenque: Chapeta, Criolla And Afro Roots In Colombia 1975-1991 (Soundway)
Wganda Kenya – Pim Pom – Palenque Palenque: Chapeta, Criolla And Afro Roots In Colombia 1975-1991 (Soundway)
Los Destellos – Guajira Sicodelica – Cumbia Beat: Experimental Guitar Driven Tropical Sounds From Peru 1968-1976 (Vampi-Soul)
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Best Coast – Boyfriend – Crazy For You (Mexican Summer)
The Spectrals – 7th Date – 7” (Slumberland)
Adam Franklin – Carousel City – I Could Sleep For A Thousand Years (Second Motion)
Sleepy Sun – Lord – Embrace (ATP)
Total Babe – Country – Heatwave EP (So Tm)
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M.I.A. – Tell Me Why – MAYA (N.E.E.T. / Interscope)
Pollyn – If I Chose You – This Little Night (Self-Released)
Alpha – Dim – The Impossible Thrill (Melankolic)
Francoiz Breut – 2013 – A l’aveuglette (T-Rec)
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{closing theme} Dungen – C. Visar Vagen – Tio Batar (Kemado)
This record from Jamaican trombonist Rico Rodriguez has always been a bit of an enigma to me. I’ve never been able to understand the how or why this record came to be on Blue Note. While the playing is a bit “jazzy” and Blue Note’s output around 1977 was more focused on funky fusion from Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey and the like, it still seems just plain odd that there’s a roots reggae record on Blue Note. I know this record also came out on Island, but I think the Blue Note edition actually was pressed first in 1976 (my copy is a second pressing definitely from 1976, I’ve never seen an “original” or an Island pressing of this so I can’t confirm that the 1976 release date).
Additionally, for the life of me I cannot remember where I first heard “Ramble,” one of the most slyly funky reggae tracks I’ve ever run into. I think it was on a “Blue Note Breaks” collection from back in the day, but doesn’t show up on any of the tracklists for those comps. What I do remember is the first time i actually ran into this record, where else but Groove merchant in San Francisco. I knew “Ramble” was a top track, but one quick listen to the rest of the album made it a no-brainer. In addition to having some of the loveliest album cover art on a Jamaican LP, the whole record is filled with top-notch, all instrumental mid-tempo roots vibes with exceptional playing from everyone involved but especially Rico on trombone.
For those of you who don’t know Rico is (even still at 75) a legendary trombone player from JA, second only to perhaps the greatest trombonist of all time (and any nation) Don Drummond. His playing on the records from the Specials and Special A.K.A. were what led me to discover original Jamaican ska and rock steady sounds. It’s a free and easy sound (imagine Lester Young as a trombone player and you’ve got Rico), with loads of feeling and tons of soul, as you can tell on the additional tracks here “This Day” and “Gunga Din.” One day I’ll learn the full story behind this lovely record, how it came together and how it came be released on Blue Note, but for now I’m just happy to have run into it again.
Over the past few years several of my favorite contemporary releases have been from Brazilian artists including CeU, 3 Na Massa, Seu Jorge’s upcoming release and this new album from Tita Lima. Few musical scenes are mixing styles as seamlessly as Brazilians are these days, or to greater effect. Lima’s new album “Possibilidades” shifts and strays into a variety of musical territories, from the dub disco reggae of “Mundo Pequeno” to the bloozy funk of “Jardim”, without ever losing direction or sounding out of place.
Throughout it all there are the vocals and presence of Tita Lima, at times playful yet cautionary, as on the lone song in English, “Smile,” or damn sensual on “Ciranda” and, despite abrupt changes in tempo and tone, “Só O Começo,” easily my favorite song in this set. Lima’s voice and the musicians continually take things in unexpected places on “Possibilades,” including a reworking of the track she cut with Ocote Soul Sounds in 2009, and one of my absolute favorite songs in recent memory, “Vendendo Saude E Fé,” into a tougher, heavier, though still very funky, piece.
Perhaps these masterful musical mashups should be expected from musicians whose country has such a rich legacy, especially with the veneration of the Tropicália movement in recent years (incidentally Lima’s father actually played bass for Os Mutantes), but it is refreshing to hear artists like Tita Lima take chances with their music, mixing together their disparate influences into something that is both novel and familiar, original and classic.
As an added treat, here’s the video for one of the album’s other standout tracks, “Mundo Pequeno”:
{Congrats to Gina S. who won the tickets to go see Antibalas!!!}
Here’s another giveaway for Melting Pot fans out here in Los Angeles. The mighty Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra will be in town this week at the Echoplex on Thursday July 15th. Antibalas is loosely aligned with the Daptone camp and plays Fela inspired Afrobeat, but often adding latin elements and more into the funky mix. Recently they helped score Fela!, the (soon to be) award winning Broadway musical on the life, times & music of Fela Kuti.
If you interested in going to the show, e-mail me at michael @ meltingpotblog.com and I’ll let you know if you’ve won tickets by Wednesday July 14th! Here’s a taste of wait awaits if you win…
With Spain winning the World Cup yesterday, I’ve certainly had Spain on my mind quite a lot this past month. It just so happened that in the mail this weekend I received this record from the Pepper Pots straight out of Girona in Catalunya. The Pepper Pots originally favored Jamaican Ska & Rock Steady sounds, but they’ve enlisted Binky Griptite of the Dap Kings to revamp themselves into a Retro Soul powerhouse. While the new sound is great, I’m still very fond of the rock steady style they used to employ exclusively, which is represented sublimely on “Dream Guy.” Below is a little behind the scenes footage of the band with Binky working through rehersals and recording “Real Tru Love,” and “Starlight” while still in Catalunya before finishing the record in New York. Really hoping someone has the good sense to release Now! in the states and that the Pepper Pots will tour the US sometime soon…
Sunday was a whirlwind, with the tension filled, extra-time finale of the World Cup (Viva España y Barça!) and my “best so far” of 2010. Two hours is a very short amount of time to attempt to mix together the best music I’ve heard over the last 6+ months. Several records didn’t make it in, solely based off of time, including Golden Triangle, Bastien Lallemant, Neverever, but there are 35 different releases featured here from this first half of 2010, plus a couple of sleepers from 2009. I think I’ll have to do two shows for the year end special. Enjoy the show and be sure to let me know what you think have been the best records at this point in 2010!
Melting Pot’s Best So Far Of 2010
Playlist: 7-11-2010
{opening theme} Booker T. & the MGs – Melting Pot – Melting Pot (Stax)
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Charades – En Las Batallas – Revolución Solar (Bcore)
The Hawk feat. Little Hannah Collins – Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover – 7” (Record Kicks)
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – Better Things – I Learned The Hard Way (Daptone)
Strange Boys – Be Brave – Be Brave (In The Red)
The Amazing Farm Singers Of Chicago – I Got A Telephone In My Bosom – Fire in My Bones (Tompkins Square)
Orgone – Cali Fever – Cali Fever (Ubiquity)
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Apple & The Three Oranges – Curse Upon The World – California Funk (Now-Again)
3 Titans feat. The Menahan Street Band – Life Of A Scholar – 7” (Daptone)
Tita Lima – So O Comeco – Possibilidades (Label A)
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Orchestra – Welcome 2 Detroit / Gobstopper – Timeless: Suite For Ma Dukes (Mochilla)
Murs & 9th Wonder – I Used To Love H.E.R. Again – Fornever (SMC)
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Spottie – Heritage (Choice Cuts)
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Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be – I Will Be (Sub Pop)
The Stooges – Shake Appeal – Raw Power: Legacy Edition (Sony Legacy)
The Black Keys – She’s Long Gone – Brothers (Nonesuch)
Caetano Veloso – Sem Cais – Zii E Zie (Nonesuch)
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Trick Pony – IRM (Elektra)
Jose James – Black Magic – Black Magic (Brownswood)
Flying Lotus – Do The Astral Plane – Cosmogramma (Warp)
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Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here – I’m New Here (XL)
The National – Lemonworld – High Violet (4AD)
Ame Son – Eclosion – The BYG Deal (Finders Keepers)
The Morning Benders – All Day Daylight – Big Echo (Rough Trade)
Jimi Hendrix – Valleys Of Neptune – Valleys Of Neptune (Experience Hendrix)
Jimi Hendrix – Lullaby For Summer – Valleys Of Neptune (Experience Hendrix)
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Total Babe – Bearbones – Heatwave EP (So Tm)
Broken Social Scene – Highway Slipper Jam – Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts)
Gorillaz feat. Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon – To Binge – Plastic Beach (EMI)
She & Him – Thieves – Volume 2 (Merge)
Polar Bear – Want To Believe Everything – Peepers (Leaf)
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Gonjasufi – Kowboyz & Indians – A Suf & A Killer (Warp)
Ana Tijoux – La Nueva Condena – 1977 (Nacional)
Sahr Nagaujah & Antibalas – Zombie – Fela! (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (Knitting Factory)
Cumbia Moderna De Soledad – Shacalao – Black Man’s Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti (Now-Again)
The Gospel Storytellers – Peter & John – Good God! Born Again Funk (Numero)
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{closing theme} Bonobo – Black Sands – Black Sands (Ninja Tune)
These "Bright Moments" are for all of you, so check 'em out!
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Bright Moments
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Fly Town Nose Blues
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Dem Red Beans and Rice
It seems only fitting that the first post of Melting Pot’s second year be this 1973 record from Rahsaan Roland Kirk. If I had owned a copy of it on vinyl when we started up on 7/7/2009, I would have posted it then. In fact, if I’d really been on top of my game, I would have started the blog on August 7th, so that each anniversary I’d be compelled to post up something from Rahsaan since that day is his birthday. In some ways it does seem to fit more now, especially since the message of Melting Pot (i.e. “uncovering Bright Moments across the musical spectrum”) is finally matched with the picture that graces the cover of this album in the website’s banner…High time indeed to give the master his due.
Since my ears first experienced the joyful noise that is Rahsaan (somewhere back in 1994), he has been my favorite all-time musician. Kirk’s work balances all the elements of modern music that I enjoy. It has deep intellectual and spiritual heft but never at the expense of a rowdy good time. It is frequently playful while often carrying a sincere and serious social message. For Rahsaan, when it came to music, there were no boundaries, he was as comfortable playing a century old New Orleans’ second line rhythm as he was playing avant-garde “new thing” with intense fire.
Rahsaan with the Vibration Society
He was also a master showman, as all his live recordings can attest to, though perhaps no record does it better than Bright Moments. Recorded at San Francisco’s Keystone Korner in 1973 and spread out over 4 sides, it features Rahsaan at the height of his artistry and with some of his best collaborators, loosely brought together as the “Vibration Society.”
What I’ve posted here are three songs that from the sound of the LP were performed in succession over the evening, I’ve switched up the order a bit so that “Bright Moments” can lead off. “Bright Moments” is so much more than a song, it’s more a description of a brief or perfect moment of beauty. Rahsaan explains “Bright Moments” in the spoken introduction through several examples, though this one was always my fave:
Bright Moments is like being with your favorite love
And you’re sharing the same ice cream dish,
And you get mad when she gets the last drop,
And you have to take her in your arms and get it the other way.
Musically, “Bright Moments” it’s a mostly straight ahead flute driven number, but there’s a feeling that’s evoked in the song that is as related to the introduction and the concept of “Bright Moments” as it is to the music. I would wager good money that it is impossible to remain depressed after listening to the full version of this song, just impossible.
Next up is “Fly Town Nose Blues,” which begins with a short rap from Rahsaan that has the crowd in stitches, but also serves the purpose of making sure the listener is aware (if they’ve never seen Rahsaan perform) that many of the flute sounds in the piece are derived from one of Kirk’s many creations, the nose flute, which yes…the man plays with his nose. Now, granted, playing an instrument with your nose should come off as a gimmick, and, in fact, many critics who just simply didn’t get Rahsaan certainly accused him of gimmickry throughout his career. But, when you watch Rahsaan perform you understand that it was never about gimmicks, it was always about the joy that comes from producing sounds that no one else would even dream of creating.
“Fly Town” is not only one of Rahsaan’s best live performances, its one of his most playful and also maybe his funkiest, though with some assistance from Todd Barkan’s synthesizer on the funky end of things.
“Dem Red Beans and Rice” closes things out for us here on an upbeat note with a trip back to the source of all great American music, New Orleans. There is, however, plenty more music to discover on the full LP, many more Bright Moments to be discovered and shared in Rahsaan’s catalog and elsewhere. My hope is that this blog, as the years go passing by, will be able to continually spread Bright Moments and allow music to bring just a little more sunlight to whatever corner of the world it may find you in.
Today marks exactly one year that Melting Pot has been up and running! I want to thank all of you who have been checking out the blog and especially for spreading the word (please keep doing so!). I think this coming year will be even better than the first, especially now that we’re over at KPFK. Expect more giveaways and performances to find their way here, in addition to the same mix of music.
One consequence of no longer being at KCRW is that I have to archive my radio programs directly on this blog which takes up significant space. This means that the majority of music will be up for only one month from the day it was posted. I may make exceptions for performances (once we start doing them!) and for special shows (the MJ Tribute will be here until the end of days…) but that’s the new policy now here at Melting Pot. So, if there’s music here that you dig and don’t have in your own collection, make sure you get it before it’s gone. In celebration of this 1st anniversary, at some point in between now and August 7th, I’ll be rolling out a mix of my favorite tracks from year one of “Dig Deep,” still in the concept phase right now, might focus just on breaks, might mix full versions, but I think this will be a yearly affair from here on out.
I’ll also be starting a new feature, Top 5’s, later next week. When KCRW started their “Five Things” blog stories, I found that there were a bunch of lists that were rolling around in my head, so “Top 5’s” will likely be a bi-weekly feature. Along with “Pound For Pound” and “What Does It All Mean?” I’m really hoping that as the years go passing by, “Top 5’s” will be another avenue for discussions about music, which is the only thing I wish we had a bit more of over here at Melting Pot. (Comment Please!!!)
Thank you all for checking out the blog and radio show…Onwards and Upwards!
