Tracks I'm Chillin' To - June 2020

Thursday Tunes 2020-05-21

Top Bops 2019

Funk You

Break tips for Deejays, Bboys

Shaolin Soul

Singles 2020

Soul

The original version by one of my favorite singers and guitarists of all time! We covered this song on the "Walkin and Talkin' album. 

Robert Ward & The Ohio Untouchables - I'm Tired

The Charmels - As Long As I've Got You

2-11 I'm His Wife, You're Just A Friend

Mayer Hawthorne's cover of Rihanna's "Stay." Recorded live in Madison, WI.

Vocals & rhythm guitar - Mayer
Drums - Quentin Joseph
Bass guitar - Joe Abrams
Lead guitar - Christian Wunderlich
Keyboards - Quincy McCrary


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Stay (Rihanna Cover)

Carl Carlton

She's A Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked) (Single Version)

Funky Good Time: The Anthology

Pass The Peas

Cameosis

Shake Your Pants

Number 1's

I Wish (Single Edit)

Tired of Being Alone

Gotta Find A New World

Diamond in the Rough

I Hear The Love Chimes

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Big Crown Records is proud to present this killer two sider reissue from Sunny & The Sunliners.
Sunny Ozuna, who formed his band, Sunny & The Sunliners, in the early 60’s, is a true legend in the history of not just Chicano music, but American music. Sunny “Mr. Brown Eyed Soul” Ozuna is highly regarded as one of the architects of the sweet soul sound that has been comped on countless “Lowrider Oldies” collections, and his music has been pouring out of 1964 Chevy Impalas since, well, 1964.
Side A’s “Should I Take You Home” is one of his flagship tunes that embodies everything that makes Sunny’s music so appealing. A mid tempo masterpiece that is as cool and swaggy as it is sweet and innocent. In his honeyed voice, that's equal parts Little Wille John and Frank Sinatra, Sunny tells the tale of young love and it’s inherent defiance with lines like “there’s no excuse that she would understand, so when I take you home hold me by the hand”. When we asked Sunny about the tune he described it as “a very young thing, a cute thing”. There is undoubtedly something equal parts nostalgic and romantic about a young man puffing his chest out to authority for the love of his girl. It’s this blend of doo wop styled lyrics, B side soul ballad aesthetic, and Tejano vibes that makes this one of the biggest Chicano penned low rider tunes out there.
Side B finds Sunny covering the Harvey Averne Classic “My Dream”. It’s another perfect example of the distinctive blend of Tejano music and American soul that makes Sunny & The Sunliners so unique.
To say we are obsessed with the music of Sunny & The Sunliners would be to put it lightly. We have been working on a proper reissue project for a few years now and the full compilation will be out in 2017.

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Sunny & The Sunliners - Should I Take You Home - BC034-45 - Side A

P.Mobil - Miskolc (Smokie Joe cover)

Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Hendrix

Señorita

beach house - space song (slowed + reverb)

boyfriend

Circles

Manic

Graveyard

The Slow Rush

It Might Be Time

Soulive - Up Right - Up Here

Iron Fist

2020 Record Jungle Recordings - SBBX Feat. Opio - On My Grind

2020

SBBX feat. Opio -  ON MY GRIND

The Sims Twins - Do The Best You Can (With What You've Got)

Carpe Noctem - Benghazi Emporium

J-Live DOD Remixes

Beach Samba

Astrud Gilberto "Beach Samba" J-Live DOD Remix (Beat Samba)

Sly And Robbie (Produced by SHARP.)

2009 marks Soulive's 10th Anniversary and over the past 10 years, Soulive have covered a lot of ground musically and literally. Not many bands can say they have recorded with Chaka Khan, Dave Matthews, Talib Kweli and John Scofield. Nor can many bands open for The Rolling Stones on one tour and have Stevie Wonder sit in with them on the next tour, and who else has recorded for legendary labels such as Blue Note, Concorde AND Stax Records? Pedigree indeed!

Of this brand new album founding member, drummer Alan Evans says "This is the Soulive album I've always wanted to record. It's what I've been hearing in my head for years, like when people say "if I could go back in time knowing what I know now" Well, that's what we did with Up Here. The session had the vibe and energy of Get Down but with all of our experiences from the past 10 years put down on tape in a very meaningful way"

The record's opening track "Upright" immediately sets the tone with a completely infectious hook featuring keyboard maestro Neal Evans on an old upright piano. There are some nods to the "old-school" on the record. "For Granted" is a tip of the hat to Grant Green, and Eric plays licks reminiscent of his early solos on Get Down and Turn It Out. Guest vocalist Nigel Hall tears it up on "Too Much" (also released as a killer Freestyle funk 45 FSR7059) while Eric's guitar sings like D'Angelo on the laid-back grind of "Put on Yo Pajamas" (P J's)

The entire record features tight horn arrangements from long-time Soulive collaborators and friends, Sam Kininger and Ryan Zoidis otherwise know as The Shady Horns

No matter how you listen to Up Here, it sounds like you're listening to vintage vinyl. One of the most difficult things about making a record with a great live band is capturing all that live energy while still making the record that's about songs. Up Here does as good a job as any record could in accomplishing this. "Straight up", says Alan, "this is the first Soulive album that I can say every tune on it is my favorites on the album". 

SOULIVE - 06 Tonight

SOULIVE - 08 For Granted

"I'm A Loser" is a tongue-in-cheek anthem for the underdog. 

Written and Produced by Phil Danyew
Drums by Mark Pontius
Mixed By Carlos de la Garza
Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters

I’m a Loser (lyrics)

You’re the king in a dream everyone wishes they had
I’m honor roll. I’m a hex. I’m a stone. I sink like a champ
You see it different
I’m full of it
Savor the sentiment
I think I lost my appetite 
Before I go won’t you let me know
What it’s like to be so cool and popular

I’m a loser
You got me where you wanted
Keep me low enough so you
feel good
I know I’m not a lemon
I’m just down on my luck

Tension runs through your blood must be fun to keep it inside
Who’s to say if today we will wake up Jekyll or Hyde
I see it different
You’re full of it 
Overconfident 
Feed the delusion in your mind

I’m a loser
You got me where you wanted
Keep me low enough so you
feel good
I know I’m not a lemon
I’m just down on my luck

Not too blue cuz I knew before you that you didn’t need me
Let’s pretend that we’re friends to the end yeah we just disagree
We see it different
We’re full of it
I still love you
You showed me who I am inside 

I’m a loser
You got me where you wanted
Keep me low enough so you
feel good
I know I’m not a lemon
I’m just down on my luck

You might catch me laughing
No season lasts forever
I might miss the madness
When the crown falls off your head
Can you remember
Who you were before the stars revolved around you?

I'm A Loser

Big Crown Vaults Vol. 1 - Lee Fields & The Expressions

Thinking About You

Take It Easy Tiger

1894

Isolation

Isolation (feat. Yellow Brain)

Taken from 'Spa Commissions 2', a new mini-album and sequel to 2017's Spa Commissions. It comes out on Local Action on May 7.

Spa Commissions 2 will also be released in a deluxe double-cassette package, including the original Spa Commissions. You can buy it here: https://yamaneko.bandcamp.com/album/spa-commissions-2

Shaped Like Kaleidoscopes

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