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Masterpiece: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
[Today: Chuck D don't take no mess...] During its first decade, Hip-Hop was mainly party music, and if it dipped into politics it was local level stuff that rarely rose above the ghetto-is-bad posture...
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Doubleshot Tuesday: The Times They Are A-Changin’/Commodores
[Today: Do lyrics matter?] I get paid to write. Words are my stock in trade, and I take them pretty seriously. And yet, sometimes I have to wonder how much words really matter in songs. In general I...
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Doubleshot Tuesday: I Wanna Get Funky/Big Bad Bo
[Today: The blues get funky...] 1974 was unofficially the year the blues got funky. That was the year that three blues legends – Albert King, Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker – released funked up records...
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I Love Music – The Cover Art
The title says it all. Here are 16 songs about how good music can make you feel… [front cover] [front inside] [back cover] ***** Here’s the playlist: The O’Jays | I Love Music Stevie Wonder | Sir Duke...
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The 25 Greatest Live Albums Of All-Time
“A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It’s a theatrical event.” ~ Freddie Mercury ***** Punch your ticket to 25 of the best live albums of all-time… 25] Yardbirds | Five Live Yardbirds – A...
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Buried Treasure: “Live” Full House
[Today: Shooting off sparks...] Long before they hit MTV with ‘Centerfold’, J. Geils Band was a fierce blues/rock outfit that lit up stages across the country as one of the hottest live acts of the...
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Weekend Playlist
“My earliest memory is shouting: at what and for what reason, I don’t know. Probably a tantrum; or I may have been rehearsing. I was always an early starter.” ~ Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead Michael...
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Buried Treasure: Connected
[Today: Hand-made hip-hop...] Stereo MC’s were a pioneering British Hip-Hop group, and not just because they connected the word ‘British’ with the word ‘Hip-Hop’. The true measure of their innovation...
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Buried Treasure: Complete Mythology
[Today: The curious case of Syl Johnson...] Rare funk is like oil. In theory, there’s a limited supply of the stuff, but people keep looking for and finding it, and it keeps getting dredged up a...
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Doubleshot Tuesday: Let’s Take It To The Stage/The Wall
[Today: The joy of singing...] The Wiz hit Broadway in January of 1975, and put a decidedly Afro-American spin on the then-36-year-old classic film, The Wizard Of Oz. In April of that same year,...
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