Who?While he's often been branded an easy-breezy, summer-night soulster, early-'60s crooner Sam Cooke was secretly a struggle-bearing badass.And I care because?- Profound sentiment meets emotion. While classics like "You Send Me" me are the perfect soundtrack for puppy-dog love, tunes like "A Change Is Gonna Come" offer a powerful reminder that the preface to any celebration is struggle.- He so...
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Sam Cooke, one of the most show-stopping, emotional singers of all time will finally be getting a biopic according to Prefix magazine. It will be based on Peter Guralnick’s biography called, Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, which I haven’t read, so I can’t speak on its source material. However, if it is good, then we might just have a quality film on our hands, as long as Hollywood do
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I resisted the Asher Roth train for a really long time. I didn't listen to "I Love College", despite it being plastered everywhere for the past couple weeks. I'm not really sure why. Probably because "I Love College" sounds like just what it is - a song about drinking and smoking weed. And now that I've finally listened to it, I can safely say it's in a dead heat with "Crank That (Soulja B
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Last week was the 40th anniversary of Otis Redding, along with six of his bandmate's death in plane crash near Madison, Wisconsin. After doing my "write up":CH about Otis, I figured it would be a shame to not follow up with the story of Sam Cooke.Sam Cooke has been accredited as many things: the most important soul singer (recognized by some to be the inventor of soul music), one of the first r...
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Who?While he's often been branded an easy-breezy, summer-night soulster, early-'60s crooner Sam Cooke was secretly a struggle-bearing badass.And I care because?- Profound sentiment meets emotion. While classics like "You Send Me" me are the perfect soundtrack for puppy-dog love, tunes like "A Change Is Gonna Come" offer a powerful reminder that the preface to any celebration is struggle.- He so...
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First released in 1961 as a chart-busting single, Sam Cooke's original version of "Bring It On Home to Me" was a proper, polite R&B number. Easy tempo and smooth vocals belied most of Cooke's lyrical beggin' and pleadin', directed at a girl who cheated on him before saying goodbye.But on Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, with a sufficiently rowdy band and playing to an even rowdier audience...
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To cover my bases: Yes, Sam Cooke is great. This song is great. And Night Beat is capital-F Fantastic. But what really makes me want to spray my brains right now is the arrangement/instrumentation. The way that for the first 4 seconds you feel as if you accidentally bought the soundtrack to a Kubrick film, then just as the tone is set a jittery acoustic guitar crashes onto the scene and invites...
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One of the best MP3 blogs around is Soul Sides, and I have been promoting it on my site for a while now. There is a post up there now that I couldn't help but surface for you...First about Soul Sides...if you love vintage R&B, Soul, Funk, etc as well as the history of the era that birthed so much of that music I cannot encourage you enough to bookmark their site or subscribe to their feed. So t...
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Every now and then I show up at synagogue. There's always much music and singing there (that is, on the part of both the synagogue's cantor and musicians and the congregation) and it's lovely and fun and deeply felt. The music differs greatly from shul to shul, some of which are more formal and some of which are, well, less orthodox (http://www.theshulofnewyork.org/music.php). But I have to sa...
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We all love covers. Good, bad, middling, it doesn't matter. Here are a couple of brand new ones that may be of interest to you.First, Cory Chise l has released a cover of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come". You can get your free copy of the MP3 here: DOWNLOADYou can read my review of Cory's Cabin Ghosts EP here .Second, Audrye Sessions have released a cover of Elliott Smith's "Waltz #2"....
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Last week was the 40th anniversary of Otis Redding, along with six of his bandmate's death in plane crash near Madison, Wisconsin. After doing my "write up":CH about Otis, I figured it would be a shame to not follow up with the story of Sam Cooke.Sam Cooke has been accredited as many things: the most important soul singer (recognized by some to be the inventor of soul music), one of the first r...
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Who?While he's often been branded an easy-breezy, summer-night soulster, early-'60s crooner Sam Cooke was secretly a struggle-bearing badass.And I care because?- Profound sentiment meets emotion. While classics like "You Send Me" me are the perfect soundtrack for puppy-dog love, tunes like "A Change Is Gonna Come" offer a powerful reminder that the preface to any celebration is struggle.- He so...
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The Wife's reaction (from her bed on the sofa): "I've got a fucking hangover, and a sick belly, but I'd jump around if I could, because I'm delighted Barack Obama won the election. To the people who voted for him, fair play for getting up off your arses and away from your computers for once to cast your vote. I would be very proud to be an American citizen right now. If anybody wants to give me...
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I know that we all feel an impending sense of change. I'm definitely feeling it right on the cusp of this year. Good or bad something is going to change. It's inevitable! So I checked my songs of change to see what I might post. I'm not posting Tears For Fears or David Bowie but I really like these songs I'm posting. I might be a little awol for a week or two on Mog and I thought that I s...
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| 1 You Send Me |
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| 2 Bring It on Home to Me |
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| 3 Feel It |
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| 4 Having a Party |
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| 5 Cupid |
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