This week in random music shuffling...
- King Kahn & The Shrines - Born To Die. New garage revival, with horns.
- The Pharcyde - Oh Shit. Giddy old-school hip-hop.
- Guru - La Bien, La Mal. Old-school hip-hop, partiellement en Français.
- Junior Wells & Buddy Guy - Hoodoo Man Blues. Awesome tune. Legend is that Guy had to run his guitar through an organ because he didn't have an amp.
- John Pizzarelli - Be My Baby Tonight. Can't find that one on YouTube, so here's a link to a live "I Got Rhythm" on his 7-string guitar.
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This week my Spotify addiction brings:
Jack White – Lazaretto
The Shins – Simple Song
Beck – Turn Away
Modest Mouse – Float On
Kasabian – bumblebee
All cracking tunes. No links, mobile. Sorry.
(The 2007 Shins’ record Wincing the Night Away isn’t available to stream in the UK. Odd. Spotify let’s you load your own stuff into the app luckily, but it’s a ball-ache and needs a PC. What is this? 2005?)
The Cadillacs – My Baby’s Coming Home To Me A second-tier track from the best doo-wop group nobody remembers. The opening riff of the sax solo is exactly the same as the one in “Zoom“. Is that a signature lick, or just a small arsenal? Also, bonus domestic violence threats at the end!
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians – Forgiven It strikes me that I’ve listened to their first album about 40 times more than I have the second one. I barely recognize this track.
James Brown – Ain’t It Funky Now Epic funk. Another demonstration that Brown was not so much a vocalist as a bandleader.
Belle & Sebastian – Waiting for the Moon to Rise I’m not crazy about Sarah Martin’s breathy vocal, but I gotta give credit to Stuart Murdoch for not just hogging the spotlight all the time.
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs – Paquito Latino headbang ska.