The Impressions: Fool For You I'm Loving NothingFrom This Is My Country (Curtom, 1968)I know I just wrote about this album in my summer songs post but seriously, this LP is easily the best thing I've heard in months. I just cannot get enough of it and am marveling at its overall consistency and sheer sublimeness at times. I feel sheepish that it took me this long to get around to listening th...
Lewise Bethune: Chitown BoogalooA.C. Reed: Boogaloo TrampFrom Chitown Boogaloo (Goldmine Soul Supply, 2006)For all the time I've spent researching Latin boogaloo, I realized I wasn't focusing enough on the original boogaloo craze - the one born out of Tom and Jerrio's "Boo-Ga-Loo" in 1965, spreading quickly throughout the R&B world and lasting for the next few years. From what I can tell, the R...
In case you missed the previous Watts Week posts:Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4As promised, I have a complete set of Wright/Watts CDs to give away. That includes all six Warner UK reissues of the original Watts albums (plus Wright's solo project on WB) PLUS the two Rhino Handmade compilations that I wrote liner notes for: Haunted House and Puckey Puckey. Ten discs total. As I said before, this is for...
Soul Sides' Summer Songs Series has moved to its own exclusive site. I've ported over all of the past posts but for all the new, upcoming posts, I'll make a quick post here and point folks over. ~~