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By Dave Ma 
(Editor’s note: Over the next few weeks, you’ll see some new voices joining us here at Soul Sides. Today is the debut of Dave Ma, who runs his own outstanding music blog, Nerdtorious, and he’s offering his take on the new 2-CD anthology chronicling the best of the Perception/Today catalog. –O.W.)
Dizzy Gillespie: Matrix
From The Best of Perception & Today Records (BBE, 2012)
The new anthology, The Best of Perception & Today Records, opens with Dizzie Gillespie’s “Matrix”, a song penned by Gillespie’s pianist, Mike Longo. Gillespie’s rendering is harder, funkier than Longo’s original and [...]
Continue reading NATURALLY GOOD: PERCEPTION AND TODAY RECORDS
By O-Dub 
The C.O.D.’s: Pretty Baby
From 7″ (Kellmac, 1965)
Ann Sexton: Have A Little Mercy
From 7″ (Seventy-Seven, 1973). Also on Anthology.
Lionel Robinson: Steppin’ Out (8-Bar Intro Edit)
Steppin’ Out (instrumental)
From 7″ (Knight, 1971)
The T.S.U. Tornadoes: Got To Get Through To You
From 7″ (Atlantic, 1969). Also on One Flight Too Many.
A few recent 7″s that have stuck in heavy rotation for me…
I first heard “Pretty Baby” by the C.O.D.’s on a deep soul mix years ago but had largely forgotten about it until [...]
Continue reading SLAPPING DOWN 7″S
By O-Dub 
Shirley Nanette: Give and Take
Sometimes
Heaven on Earth
From Never Coming Back (Satara, 1973)
Nanette is a jazz vocalist, originally from Portland, OR, and though her own bio says she got her start in 1981, this album would seem to suggest otherwise. It is a most extraordinary LP, one that’s recently been getting heavier mention in select circles after a cache of sealed copies turned up and were quickly sold off (I received mine probably 3rd hand, via my last trip to the Groove Merchant). I’ll just say: I [...]
Continue reading SHIRLEY NANETTE: STYLES UPON STYLES
By O-Dub 
RJ Smith’s The One
This is written by a good friend of mine in L.A. who researched it for years. The reviews have been superlative and I’m very much looking forward to finally reading this myself after having heard about the ongoing process for ages. Don’t sleep!
(I’ll also be interviewing RJ for a future podcast!)
By O-Dub 
The only downside to Numero Group is that they put out too much damn music!1 Just as I’m trying to catch up with the excellence that was their Boddie set, I’m now trying to stay atop of their upcoming Lou Ragland and Red, Black and Green Productions releases respectively and their dropping limited edition vinyl exclusives by gospel singer Shirley Ann Lee and the one I’m most jazzed about: this Boddie-vault rescue by the girl group, Love Apple.
Love Apple: What Will Tomorrow Bring?
From S/T (Numero Group, 2012)
The sound quality isn’t the best [...]
Continue reading GIVEAWAY: LOVE APPLE
By O-Dub 
The Darling Dears: And I Love You
From 7″ (Flower City/Culture of Sound, 1972/2012)
I first heard about the Darling Dears 7″ on Soulstrut in 2010 and Matthew Africa recently did a nice write-up on his blog where he describes the sound of the group as “airy female harmonies set against a wall of sludgy funk and heavy drums,” which just about sums it up. A really awesome single and expensively obscure out the wazoo.
By sheer coincidence, two different labels have reissued it, basically at the same time, both of which followed perfectly legit [...]
Continue reading GIVEAWAY: DARLING DEARS 7″
By O-Dub I don’t post enough new music on here, I know but I really dig this. Don’t sleep.
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