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I’ve been gone from home, more or less continuously, since May 18th, and I simply haven’t had the physical or mental time to write much about the passing of GSH. Luckily, there’s no shortage of great, thoughtful tributes being written by others:1
Michael Barnes dedicated yesterday’s Melting Pot show to a two hour GSH tribute. Adam Mansbach writes about “the depth of his self-analysis, the delicacy of his portraiture.” Jonny Paycheck argues that by battling with his addiction, “[GSH] humanized himself, and in the process, all of us.” Chairman Mao shares an unreleased [...]
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I had only been to NOLA once before…in mid-winter of 2002, during both Mardi Gras and the week of the Superbowl so sh– was crazy. I was on assignment for The Source to do a cover story on Master P and Lil Romeo and it was not the best way to get a feel for the city. Not only was I there for slightly less than 24 hours, but I spent almost all of it tailing P and his entourage around town but seeing very little of the [...]
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The Sidebar #3: Jesse Thorn
For The Sidebar #3, I interview Jesse Thorn, creator/host of public radio’s The Sound of Young America as well as podcast overlord of Maximumfun.org. Jesse – who still produces his show/podcast out of his living room – was a major inspiration behind me creating The Sidebar since being interviewed by him, at his home studio, made me realize I didn’t need a professional station studio to put something together.
In our near-hour convo, we talk about how TSOYA got [...]
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Busy in New Orleans right now so forgive the slow posting pace. Heard this on NOLA’s 90.7 FM; great blues tune from the late Johnnie Taylor. Have a snack on this – I’ll be back by early next week
Damn, De La Soul Is Dead is already 20 years old? F—, I feel old.
John Book goes in on discussing the album and I don’t have much to say except for this:
De La was the reason I got into hip-hop and by extension, was the reason I got into music in any kind of impassioned, obsessive way. For that reason, 3 Ft. High and Rising will always have a special place in my heart. But the De La album that I return to the most is De La Soul Is [...]
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The Sidebar Ep. 2 w/ Brendan-Irvine Broque
For episode 2 of our new podcast series, The Sidebar, I interview Brendan Irvine-Broque, my first “in-studio” guest. In the last couple of years, BIB (under the auspices of Cavern Discos) has risen the ranks of online record dealing and has shifted from selling his own records to becoming a consignment dealer, including for last week’s guest, Matthew Africa. The first half of our convo was around what seems to be the escalating price of rare records [...]
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Ruby Andrews: Hey Boy (Take a Chance On Love)
Come To Me
From 7″ (Zodiac, 1967). Also on Just Loving You: The Zodiac Sessions.
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about Ruby Andrews even though, as I’ve implied in the past, I’d put her ’60s recordings amongst some of my favorite by any female soul artist of the same era.
It took me a few years to figure out that part of what made her songs so good was – apart from the strength of her [...]
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