What Are You Listening To? February 2021
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Cracker - Kerosene Hat (1993)
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Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (1988)
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Trip Hill - Ain't Trip Ceremony (2020)
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
Beast, Please Be Still ~ Beast, Please Be Still (2007)
Post-Rock, Romani Folk Music
Post-Rock, Romani Folk Music
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Mulatu Astatke Feat. Fekade Amde Maskal - Ethio Jazz (1974)
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Eugene McDaniels - Outlaw (1970)
This cult favorite seems to be out of print. Not long ago, Real Gone Music offered an LP reissue of this (red vinyl, naturally) which also has gone AWOL.
Their blurb explains:
Eugene “Gene” McDaniels first broke through in the early ‘60s with pop soul hits like “A Hundred Pounds of Clay.” But that was a different time...and a different man. By the time McDaniels recorded his 1970 album Outlaw, he had re-christened himself “the left rev mc d” and penned the soul-jazz protest anthem “Compared to What,” first recorded in 1966 by Les McCann and turned into a standard by McCann and saxophonist Eddie Harris on their 1969 album Swiss Movement.
Indeed, the front cover of Outlaw left no doubt as to the radicalization of McDaniels’ politics. As Pat Thomas puts it in the liner notes that we have added to this reissue, “One sees Middle America’s worst nightmare coming to life. There’s the badass Reverend Lee himself holding a bible. Righteous Susan Jane in a jean jacket and black French resistance turtleneck is wielding a machine gun, and McDaniels’ then-wife Ramona appears as a soul sister with cross your heart Viva Zapata! ammo belts. In the forefront is a large human skull, just in case you didn’t already get the message.”
The Nixon White House sure got the message; legend has it that the administration was so offended by the lyrics to “Silent Majority” (“Silent Majority is calling out loud to you and me from Arlington Cemetery”) that either Spiro Agnew or Nixon’s Chief of Staff personally called Atlantic, asking them to stop working with McDaniels. Politics aside, Outlaw offers a heady blend of soul, jazz, folk, and rock grooves played by Ron Carter, Eric Weissberg, and Hugh McCracken among others, with legendary producer Joel Dorn at the controls and cult favorite William S. Fischer operating as Musical Director.
This album crosses a lot of musical boundaries. Angry folk with funky overtones about covers it. RIYL Gil Scott-Heron.
on the Sam-O-Meter. At least it is on Spotify! 
This cult favorite seems to be out of print. Not long ago, Real Gone Music offered an LP reissue of this (red vinyl, naturally) which also has gone AWOL.
Their blurb explains:Eugene “Gene” McDaniels first broke through in the early ‘60s with pop soul hits like “A Hundred Pounds of Clay.” But that was a different time...and a different man. By the time McDaniels recorded his 1970 album Outlaw, he had re-christened himself “the left rev mc d” and penned the soul-jazz protest anthem “Compared to What,” first recorded in 1966 by Les McCann and turned into a standard by McCann and saxophonist Eddie Harris on their 1969 album Swiss Movement.
Indeed, the front cover of Outlaw left no doubt as to the radicalization of McDaniels’ politics. As Pat Thomas puts it in the liner notes that we have added to this reissue, “One sees Middle America’s worst nightmare coming to life. There’s the badass Reverend Lee himself holding a bible. Righteous Susan Jane in a jean jacket and black French resistance turtleneck is wielding a machine gun, and McDaniels’ then-wife Ramona appears as a soul sister with cross your heart Viva Zapata! ammo belts. In the forefront is a large human skull, just in case you didn’t already get the message.”
The Nixon White House sure got the message; legend has it that the administration was so offended by the lyrics to “Silent Majority” (“Silent Majority is calling out loud to you and me from Arlington Cemetery”) that either Spiro Agnew or Nixon’s Chief of Staff personally called Atlantic, asking them to stop working with McDaniels. Politics aside, Outlaw offers a heady blend of soul, jazz, folk, and rock grooves played by Ron Carter, Eric Weissberg, and Hugh McCracken among others, with legendary producer Joel Dorn at the controls and cult favorite William S. Fischer operating as Musical Director.
This album crosses a lot of musical boundaries. Angry folk with funky overtones about covers it. RIYL Gil Scott-Heron.
on the Sam-O-Meter. At least it is on Spotify!
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Prince - Around The World In A Day (1985)
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Various Artists - Blaxploitation Style Funk From The Library Vol. 1
Long ago during the heyday of the music blog, there was a site on which a whole series of fantastic comps like this one were posted. The site vanished years ago, taking these collections with it. But once in a while they surface. I stumbled across this one late last night while working. It was just what I needed to get me through my project.
Long ago during the heyday of the music blog, there was a site on which a whole series of fantastic comps like this one were posted. The site vanished years ago, taking these collections with it. But once in a while they surface. I stumbled across this one late last night while working. It was just what I needed to get me through my project.
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