Great story behind my favourite Mother's Day Jam of all time. My first ever pirate radio show took place a couple of years before even Radio Friendly existed up in Thompson's House for DrossFM. Myself and Mr.Fork did a Mothers Day show one Sunday and he introduced me to this Philly classic, which was later sampled by Raphael Saadiq and Q Tip for "Get Involved". It was an epic radio show and one of the best buzzes I've ever had, despite the fact that more people will read this in the next few minutes than heard the show! This is for Mr Fork and all the mama's out...
It only seems like yesterday that I did a tribute here to New Jersey producer Tony D who died tragically last year. Well sadly tragedy struck again this morning when another Tony D, known to many as Tony Dixon, died in Dublin after a short illness. Myself and Tony go back to the 90's but it is fair to say he has been pushing soul music in Ireland for a lot longer than that. Here is a quick career summary from RTE's website "Originally from Pinewood on the Northside of Dublin, RnB DJ Tony Dixon began his radio career working with the 'Big D' pirate station in the '70's. He was known affectionately in the music industry as a member of the 'Northside mafia', a group of high profile presenters including Ian Dempsey, Tony Fenton and Gerry Ryan who all grew up together and went on to forge...
No sooner is the Decades Festival over that talk turns to another music festival and the announcement this week that will be welcomed by loads of Cork music fans. The Southern Soul and Disco Festival, which last ran in Cork in 1999, is returning in 2011 and will provide a big boost for the city. The Southern soul and disco weekends were a product of the Mor Disco and Simply Delicious nights that ran in Cork for many years and all of the operators have been keen for many years to get them back up and running. The original weekends drew great crowds to see some amazing acts, and a certain DJ and production duo called Basement Jaxx were one of the big names who went on to become very well known in music circles. Legendary diva’s such as Jocelyn Brown and Gwen Dickey of Rose Royce...
I met with some of the people organising the forthcoming Cork jazz Festival in October last week and I came away confident that this years event will even surpass last years one, which in my opinion, was the best festival in many years. The balance between commercial and artistic success at such a festival is always tricky, but in 2009 big acts such as Imelda May in the Savoy were backed by a host of others who filled different sized venues in one of the busiest jazz weekends since the 90’s. Sun Ra Arkestra, Pharoah Sanders, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Dam-Funk and many more played very highly regarded shows, and notably, their was a very big travelling contingent from other Irish cities and indeed abroad. This year events is still quite a bit away but I can tell you that there...
ahead of the big gig at the The Pavilion Cork on Sunday i'm gonna be rolling out Candi Staton classics all...
Rise and shine soul The Stylistics part 4The original of one of the most covered and sampled tracks of all time everyone from Michael jackson and Moodyman to Blackalicious and Marc Dorsey used a piece of this and no wonderMore relevant now than...
One for the late night crew"So keep abreast to the GangStarr conquest Underground ruffnecks pounds of respect I've never been afraid to let loose my speech My brothers know I kick the code of the streets"DEEP-did a sunday in the Torch, now Fionnbarras, in about 97, spinning jazz and soul like this-i'll have my Guru tribute up...
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If Prince covers your music-you know you have done something...
I always love the way she was schooled in ska and reggae aswell as soul and...
Soul heaven----------Good night and good...
"When you walk in a bar, dressed like a star, rockin' your Fuck Me...
My favourite voice of the last 10/15 years, with one of the best ever versions of this Phil Spector...
"been up since 6 with my hyper daughter but the sun is shining and life is...
another classicand a great remix from Rae and...
Syl's daughter in good...
One of my favourite jazz singers all weekLadies and gentleman, the amazing Dinah...
And he is still making soul classics after over 6 decades in the...
This week we celebrate Erykah Badu who has another great album out!This track struck a big chord here in about 98 used use the accapella a lot like in the first track on this mix free download here"Don't know about the Internet Don't know about the radio Don't know about the television All I know is 'bout my...
They didn't know what do do with her back then in the earlier days, but sometimes the jazzier stuff hit the nail on the head and this one deserves a wider...
R Kelly used this but the original is the...
One of the greatest hip-hop love songs have a great Sunday! As a bonus check out the video below which features the making of "Peg"; sampled by De La...
De La Soul and Stevie Wonder-a perfect...
No decent vids of "I am I be" online so check Maceo Parker bringing it over Lou Rawls on the...
and Tom Waits in there...
One for the late night crewLove music hate racism tomorrow in the Pav from 10pmNina Simone's version of the classic poem made famous by Billie Holiday-free download of my mix...
Another of the big bricks upon which hip-hop was built the West Coast in particular were all over Zapp what a tune still...
a little later todayas I had a busy morn-but worth waiting for!Nat King Cole - When I Fall In LoveUploaded by oublierleracismeskyblog. - See the latest featured music...