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By O-Dub 
As my dwindling finances can attest to, snapping up records with cover songs is bad habit sickness passion that I can’t/won’t shake. I’m sure there will be a Deep Covers 3 in the offering at some point in the near future but in the meanwhile, here’s a few highlights from the last few months.
The Power Pack: I Got You
From Soul Cure (Polydor, 1969)
Generation Gap: Family Affair
From Plays Shaft (RCA, 1972)
These both come from instrumental exploitation LPs, jacking contemporary hits of the time and giving them makeovers that, in most cases, are laughably weak. [...]
Continue reading COVERS POWER PACK
By O-Dub 
Richard’s People: Yo Yo (O-Dub’s Extended Intro Edit)
From 7″ (Tuba, 1968)
When Doc Delay came through to spin the other month, he dropped this in the middle of a funk mix and trainspotter as I am, I craned my neck over to ask: “wtf is this?” It sounded like the unruly love child of a Midwestern funkateer backed by an East Harlem band and as I dug around for more info on its background, turned out I was more or less on point.
While the 7″ came out of Detroit (rumor is, the vocalist was a [...]
Continue reading DOIN’ THE YO YO + A LITTLE TOUCH OF TEDDY
By O-Dub 
Besides being able to share music, the other great joy of working on Soul-Sides.com is the process of discovery for myself. I have this big crate of “songs I mean to post about” but inevitably, these get pushed out of the way based on “stuff I just discovered” and it’s almost always the case that my year-end review of my favorite songs are comprised by songs that I found-along-the-way; 2009 was no different.
Irma Thomas: Hurt’s All Gone
From 7″ (Imperial, 1966). Also on The Jerry Ragovoy Story — Time Is On My Side.
The path to [...]
Continue reading 2009 REWIND
By O-Dub 
Bitty McLean: Walk Away From Love
From On Bond Street (Peckings, 2005)
Montclairs: Hey You!
From 7″ single (Arch, 1969)
Captain Planet: Fumando
From Speakin Nuyorican EP (Bastard Jazz, 2009)
Big Boi w/ Gucci Mane: Shine Blockas
From Sir Lucious Leftfoot: Son of Chico Dusty (Def Jam, forthcoming 2009/2010)
Jay Electronica: Exhibit C (radio rip)
From untitled(?) (Decon, forthcoming ?)
Lupe Fiasco: Fire
From Lasers (Atlantic, forthcoming 2009)
Clipse feat. Pharrell, Cam’ron: Popular Demand (Popeye’s)
From Till the Casket Driops (Re-Up, forthcoming 2009)
I have a playlist I keep on my iPhone of all the songs [...]
Continue reading THIS WEEK’S HEAVY ROTATION
By O-Dub 
I was interviewing Mayer Hawthorne today for an upcoming piece that will run around whenever his album drops (sounds like August or Sept. at the latest) and he was remarking how surprised he was that “young kids” (meaning teenagers) have been into his songs and I suggested that it was the “slow jam factor.” For all the stereotypes of teens liking angry, rebellious music, there’s also the contingent that likes the bump n’ grind groovers they can get their red light dance on to or the kind of sweet, lowrider ballads you hear them dedicating to one another [...]
Continue reading THE SLOW JAM FACTOR
By O-Dub  
Jennifer Lara: Close To You
Jennifer Lara: Our Love
From Studio One Presents Jennifer Lara (Studio One, 197?)
Sharon Forrester: Please Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Sharon Forrester: Silly Wasn’t I
From Sharon (Vulcan, 1973). “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” also on Trojan Seventies.
I’m definitely not that deep of a reggae collector but I do have a yen for good reggae soul songs and that’s what drew me to both of these albums. The Lara LP was a bit of an impulse buy – I hadn’t even really heard much of it but decided that Studio [...]
Continue reading REGGAE WOMEN ROCK ON
By O-Dub 
Tyrone Davis: Can I Change My Mind?
From Can I Change My Mind? (Dakar, 1969)
Alton Ellis: Can I Change My Mind
From 7″ (Studio One, 1970). Also on I’m Still In Love With You
Tyrone Davis: Let Me Back In
From Turn Back the Hands of Time (Dakar, 1970)
Jesse Anderson: Let Me Back In
From 7″ (Curtom, 1970). Also on The Curtom Story.
Tyrone Davis: A Woman Needs To Be Loved
From Can I Change My Mind? (Dakar, 1969)
I’m definitely not that well-versed in Tyrone Davis’ [...]
Continue reading BY REQUEST: TYRONE DAVIS
By O-Dub 
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno: Westbound Train
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno: Make Dub Not War
From Death of the Revolution (Tru Thoughts, 2008)
Should have been on top of this back in the summer when it first dropped but consider the new Flowering Inferno album to be good, warm listening for the chilliness of winter. This is Quantic’s latest incarnation, a close kin to the Quantic Soul Orchestra’s Tropidelico album from 2007 except here, it’s Quantic himself handling all of the musical duties.
The sound this time is out notably influenced by reggae and dub – the Latin [...]
Continue reading QUANTIC/FLOWERING INFERNO: DUBADELICA
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