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Nathan Davis: Sticky Buddy, from If (Tomorrow Int’l, 1976)
Sad news: Nathan Davis just passed away this week. Like a lot of folks in the ’90s, I discovered Davis’ magnificent album, If via Luv N Haight comps and one story I always tell is that when I was a DJ at KALX, I realized they had an original copy of If and at the time, it was an LP that could have easily sold for $200+. I never stole, ever, a record from the KALX library but I always joked that […]
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Charles Bradley has died at age 68.
Folks here know how much I liked and respected the man and his music. I got to review his album in 2013 and then write about “Things We Do For Love” a few years later. And Tommy Brenneck broke down how he and Bradley came to work together on episode #7 of The Sidebar.
Some of my favorite Bradley songs:
Sad news: David Axelrod has passed.
I’ve written about him many times on this site and it’d be hard for me to do him any better justice than when I tried back in 2002.
My peoples…I don’t even know how to process everyone we lost this year.
As with many of you, ATCQ meant everything to me. I’m not ready to put Phife in context or nothing like that. Just mourning someone gone far before his time. I’ll let Ted speak my mind:
The Funky Diabetic made the sweetest music. He's still here.
— Ted Bawno (@tedbawno) March 23, 2016
(image by the (literally) illustrious John Jennings)
B.B. King passed away yesterday.
I’ll leave it to my betters to properly eulogize him but my man Joe Schloss reminded me about one of King’s best lines ever (executed here to funky perfection by Johnny Holiday):
I don’t know why this song, of all of Womack’s, is my favorite by him. But it is.
Gone too young.
Curtis Mayfield would have turned 72 today. The immensity of his genius is something I am continually rediscovering. Here’s just three cuts to remember him by…out of seemingly a countless bounty.
I will forever be a student of music, learning from the greats. RIP, Frankie Knuckles.
Darondo (né William Pulliam) passed away today at the age of 67. His single, “Didn’t I” remains one of my favorite Bay Area records (and really, just an all-time great slow jam).
I interviewed Darondo back in 2006 for Wax Poetics and they just reprinted the article on their site. Here’s an excerpt:
The name “Darondo” is so unique, it’s hard to forget. But for many years, all people knew of him was only that: a name on a faded label. In his brief recording career, […]
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