A song from the killer new Lee Fields album
Tag: soul
Posted inBlogs
My playlist of political soul
Nine of my favorite soul tracks that push for a better world
Posted inMusic
The Secret History of Chicago Music: Jimmy Burns
Guitarist Jimmy Burns started out singing doo-wop and now plays the blues for Delmark
Posted inBlogs
RIP Howard Tate and Hubert Sumlin
Over the weekend soul singer Howard Tate and blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin passed away, at 72 and 80, respectively.
Posted inFilm
Hip-hop artist Peven Everett talks to jazz guitarist Jeff Parker
The two big-timers on Chicago’s independent music scene discuss house, New York, and audience reception.
Posted inBlogs
To Do Tonight: Hot Smoke & Mini Skirts at Beauty Bar
Garage rock and funk for free at Beauty Bar
Posted inBlogs
Today in “Finally”
Mingering Mike finally makes an album cover for a record that’s actually being released.
Posted inBlogs
A Snapshot—Musical and Visual—of the South Side in the 70s
The Numero Group releases Michael L. Abramson’s photographs of south-side blues clubs and lounges from 1975-77 and complements it with a great double LP of rare music from the same millieu.
Posted inMusic
The Jackson Find
This was supposed to be the story of the Jackson Five’s first single, cut in Chicago in 1967. But while he was writing it, Jake Austen picked up a trail leading to a tape nobody knew existed: the earliest known studio recording of Michael Jackson and his brothers.
Posted inBlogs
Lightening the mood
Some classic Minnie Riperton–think of it as a palate cleanser after all the black-metal coverage.
Posted inBlogs
Reasons to hit the suburbs, plus a pageant of Asian delights in Lincoln Park
Japanese hot pot for one, upscale soul food from Urban Belly’s Bill Kim, and a pageant of Asian cuisine under one roof in Lincoln Park.
Posted inMusic
Al Green
After surviving a potentially lethal tumble from a stage in 1979, soul legend Al Green turned almost exclusively to gospel music. Much of his recorded output since has suffered from weak material and mediocre arrangements, but Green’s otherworldly voice has never lost any of its transcendent power, even if his creamy falsetto has dropped slightly […]
Posted inMusic
Alex Chilton
Lester Bangs said that the Velvet Underground “invented the 70s.” That’s an exaggeration–they’d have done a better job–but it’s no more of one to say that Alex Chilton invented the 80s a decade early. Stuck inside of Memphis with the downwardly mobile blues, Chilton turned from teenage Box Top to torrid iconoclast. His signature band, […]