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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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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