Going Home - Takuya Kuroda

Eddie Bo - Check Your Bucket

06 - Snibbet

You pulled up in your Cadillac with honey on your tongue
Promised me the ocean and the moon and stars and sun
Said baby won't you come with me, I'll show you something new
Never thought the destination, darling, would be you

I should've seen the warning signs
Written in your smile
But I was too caught up to know
I was getting played all the while

Taken for a ride, taken for a ride
Down the Pacific Coast with nothing but your lies
Taken for a ride, oh what a sweet disguise
You had me in the passenger seat
While you were steering me to goodbye
Taken for a ride

You knew just what to whisper when the radio played low
Leather seats and sunset streets and nowhere left to go
I was dizzy on your promises, drunk on your cologne
Didn't realize I was traveling this highway all alone

I should've read between the lines
Every word you said
But I was too in love to see
I was just a stop ahead

Taken for a ride, taken for a ride
Down the Pacific Coast with nothing but your lies
Taken for a ride, oh what a sweet disguise
You had me in the passenger seat
While you were steering me to goodbye
Taken for a ride

(Ooh, you took me for a fool)
(Ooh, played me like you do)
Wind in my hair, didn't have a care
Thought we were going somewhere
But you were just burning gasoline
Using me for the scenery
Baby, I was just your Sunday drive
Your detour, your way to kill the time

Now I'm standing on the shoulder with my thumb up in the air
You left me by the roadside like you were never there
But I learned something on that journey, even though it hurt
Sometimes the prettiest roads, baby, lead you to the dirt

Taken for a ride, taken for a ride
Down the Pacific Coast with nothing but your lies
Taken for a ride, oh what a sweet disguise
You had me in the passenger seat
While you were steering me to goodbye

Taken for a ride, taken for a ride
But now I'm driving solo and I'm finally alive
Taken for a ride, but I survived
Baby, you can keep that highway
I've got my own way to fly
You took me for a ride

(Taken for a ride)
(But now I'm driving)
(Taken for a ride)
(Oh, I'm finally free)

Nancy Chisholm - Taken For A Ride

ChicPeas

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Rob Smoughton is probably best known as a long-time member of Hot Chip and Scritti Politti, while his alter-ego Grovesnor has released a number of albums to critical acclaim.

Now he unveils his new band, Black Peaches.

A midway point between the swamp and the tropics, Black Peaches’ music is gloriously loose-limbed and strung-out: a psychotropic stew of country boogie, spiritual jazz and funk.

With slide guitars, Latin percussion and shimmering keyboards, the Peaches sound is a cinematic experience, the soundtrack to a bar fight at the country disco or an incantation of the black arts. At other times they swagger with the easy confidence of Little Feat, Manassas, or Dr John to create a pulsating, unwinding groove for a hot summer's day where no one is in too much of a hurry.

Black Peaches is not just a sextet, but in the mind of its skipper, Smoughton, a destination where various strands of musical flavour and colour coalesce to form a heavenly brew, equal parts melody and groove, grit and bliss, sublimely tight and gloriously loose-limbed.

Black Peaches demanded a band format so, Smoughton sent his initial demos to musicians he fancied roping in, like Nick Roberts, Grosvenor’s live drummer, and Charlie Michael (The Severed Limb, Shock Defeat), a master of Brazilian percussion. Smoughton had played with bassist Susumu Mukai in (Hot Chip frontman) Alexis Taylor’s live band. Duelling guitarist Adam Chetwood, is a fellow country and jazz fan and plays pedal steel too. Thomas Greene (Cold Specks) on keyboards completes a consummate line-up that added ideas to Smoughton’s demos, which he took away and wrote more parts for.

Inspirations include ‘70s Nashville combo Barefoot Jerry and their guitarist Mac Gaden - that combination of southern soul and country coming together, with Caribbean or South American music seeped in.

Steven Stills’ first post-Crosby Stills Nash & Young ensemble Manassas were a blueprint in terms of Black Peaches’ line-up, with percussion and pedal steel.

Then from Brazil, the rhythm section of Baden Powell Sambas’ 1966 album Os Afro Sambas and the double guitar attack of the psych-tinged Novos Baianos, alongside Chicago’s funky post-rockers 5Style and Krautrock legends Can.

After all, peaches don’t only grow in Georgia…

Fire & A Water Sign

With their first two Daptone albums – Get an Understanding, and as featured singers on Como Now – The Como Mamas established themselves as three of the strongest voices in gospel music today.
 
In December of 2015, they cemented that reputation by taking their first trip from their home in Como, MS up to Harlem, NY to crush the Apollo Theater as part of the Daptone Super Soul Revue. Taking full advantage of their presence in town, the Daptone crew brought Ester Mae Wilbourn, Della Daniels and Angelia Taylor into the House of Soul the week after the show to join forces for the first time with the musicians and studio that has defined their label’s sound.

Jimmy Hill, Thomas Brenneck, Homer Steinweiss, and Bosco Mann, all stalwarts of the Daptone stable, came together as “The Glorifiers Band,” to put down a churning musical foundation for these amazing singers. The results are some of the heaviest tracks that Daptone has cut to date. If you don’t like raw, soulful gospel music, you’re really gonna hate this one. Move Upstairs is a REAL mother!

Move Upstairs

The Como Mamas - Move Upstairs

chocolate and co  one more time

"Total Explosion" re-issued on vinyl.  In stores March 05 on Hi Records/Fat Possum Records.

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Syl Johnson "I Only Have Love"

Crossover

Emma Donovan & The Putbacks - Yarian Mitji

Emma Donovan & The Putbacks - Hold On

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Emma Donovan & The Putbacks - Hold On

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