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Charles Bradley - I Believe In Your Love

From his latest album, Changes, out now. Order the album at: 

Bandcamp - https://charlesbradley.bandcamp.com/
iTunes/Amazon/Google Play - http://radi.al/CharlesBradleyChanges

Revelation
We’re living in
Am I dreaming?
Who is gonna protect us now?
Right back to color 
Blacks depreciate
If we’re not careful
We’ll be back segregated

Change for the better of your soul

We gotta change my love 
We gotta change for the world 
I got to give you my love
If you don’t know me by now just check yourself

I ain’t afraid to love you
See I come with open arms
Stop hiding behind religion
Hate is poison in the blood 
Heaven is crying, the world is shaking
God is unhappy, the moon is breaking
Blood is spilling, God is coming

What are you gonna do
Shout them loud. Take this love
Put away the gun and take this love
We gotta change my love 
We gotta change for the world 
I got to give you my love

Change the false pretense
Change the hate in you

We gotta change our love 
We gotta change for the world 
I got to give you my love 
Changing, changing, changing for this world
All over the world
Change

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Charles Bradley - Change For The World

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Charles Bradley's new album, Changes, out now and available at http://shop.daptonerecords.com

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I've been meaning to put together a dope soul compilation for a couple of months, but I just kept putting it off. I hope you find it accessible and enjoyable, and that you also appreciate how much self restraint it took to not include anything by R. Kelly on here.

Oh, and in no way, shape, or form do I own any of this music, nor do I stand to make any gain, financial or otherwise, by showing it to my friends. 

Download the playlist here: http://www.mediafire.com/?vvn2htaus5a1xep

15- Charles Bradley How Long

Victor "Ticklah" Axelrod presents: Charles Bradley featuring The Inversions - "Whatcha Doing (To Me)" b/w "Strike Three"
http://dapt.one/1115

Originally a stand-out album track from Charles Bradley's “Changes” long player - then titled "You Think I Don't Know (But I Know)" - Axelrod & Co. artfully transform the Soul groover into an early '70s reggae stroller, with Charles' signature plaintive vocals providing a beautiful juxtaposition to the lighthearted bounce of the Inversion's Island beat. Thankfully CB was able to hear this version before he passed, to which he said "Ooooooo! I LOVE IT!" We think you will too!

Whatcha Doing (To Me) b/w Strike Three

Charles Bradley ft. The Inversions - Whatcha Doing (To Me)

Charles Bradley - Slip Away

Off of Charles Bradley's upcoming album Black Velvet, out now.
LP/CD/Box Set/Digital: https://ffm.to/charlesbradley 

November 5, 2018 would have been Charles Bradley’s 70th birthday. In celebration of his extraordinary life, Daptone imprint Dunham Records has released his fourth and final album. Black Velvet features ten studio recordings never before included on any album.
 
Black Velvet is a celebration of Charles Bradley, lovingly assembled by his friends and family at Dunham/Daptone Records. Though chronologically the material spans Charles' entire career, this is no anthology, greatest hits or other shallow rehashing of the songs that already made him famous. Rather, this album is a profound exploration through the less-travelled corners of the soulful universe that Charles and his longtime producer, co-writer and friend Tommy "TNT" Brenneck created in the studio together over their decade-long partnership.

Charles Bradley - Can't Fight The Feeling

Charles Bradley - Fly Little Girl

Charles Bradley - Changes (SLZRD Remix)

Celebrating Light In The Attic’s 10 year anniversary in 2012, we are releasing a series of very special colored vinyl 7”s and digital downloads. The series features contemporary artists covering a track reissued by Light In The Attic on the A-side, plus the original version on the B-side.

Charles Bradley – known as “The Screaming Eagle of Soul”, and for good reason – tackles ‘I’ll Slip Away’ by one of Light In The Attic’s big success stories, Rodriguez. Dating back three years before his defining Cold Fact album, ‘I’ll Slip Away’ was the Sugarman’s 1967 debut single for Impact Records. In Rodriguez’s hands, it’s shuffling, tropicalia-tinged folk. In Bradley’s hands and backed by the inimitable Menahan Street Band, it’s a vintage soul stomper.

A side is produced by Thomas Brenneck and recorded at Dunham Sound Studio, Brooklyn, NY, July 2012. B side features the original Rodriguez version as remastered by Dave Cooley.

Buy 7" or MP3!

Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band cover Rodriguez's I"ll Slip Away

Out now on all streaming services: https://orcd.co/charlesbradleylucifer

Vinyl: https://charlesbradleylonelyasyouare.com

“Obama! You’ve done what you had to do.  Change the world!” 

Charles Bradley had a lot on his mind when he recorded “Lucifer” in the final days of the Obama presidency.  A stomach cancer diagnosis in the Fall of 2016 forced him off the road at the peak of his career.  Weakened by months of chemotherapy, facing a life threatening surgery and confronting his own mortality in a moment of political upheaval and uncertainty, Bradley was filled with ideas and energy when he stepped into a Queens home recording studio and spontaneously created “Lucifer” and “Lonely as You Are.”  

In contrast to the heartrending “Lonely,” “Lucifer” finds Bradley in familiar territory -- a soaring, uptempo soul jam filled with his trademark scream and joyful lyrics that combine the spiritual and physical:  “When I look into your eyes and saw the great star, I knew I had a love right there.  I wanna love you, love you, love you, love you.”

“Charles knew what he wanted to say and he said it quickly. He wore his heart on his sleeve. A true singer.” said James Levy, who co-wrote “Lucifer” and “Lonely as You Are” with Bradley and also co-produced the tracks. 

“Lucifer” and “Lonely as You Are” (in which Bradley is backed by Seth Avett and Mike Marsh from the Avett Brothers, along with co-producers Levy and Paul Defiglia) are Bradley’s final recordings.   
 
The Queens, NY sessions marked an improbable collaboration between Bradley and Levy who had worked most recently on projects with Julian Casablancas of The Strokes and Guy Berryman of Coldplay,  Levy was recording demos for a new record when he connected with Bradley through their mutual manager.  To finish the tracks, Levy enlisted Nashville producer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Defiglia, who had spent the previous five years recording and touring with the Avett Brothers and Langhorne Slim.  

The Bradley recordings lead to a further collaboration between Levy and Defiglia, who recently released “Songs of Love” the first single from upcoming album Somebody.   Levy this week also released a new Reputante EP in celebration of Cult Records’ 10 year anniversary.  

The remarkable against-all-odds rise of Charles Bradley since the release of his 2011 debut album No Time For Dreaming has been well documented.  Transcending a life in the streets, Bradley went from extreme poverty and homelessness to performing sold out shows and making national TV and festival appearances around the world, including at Coachella, Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Glastonbury, SXSW and many more.  Poull Brien's 2012 documentary -- Charles Bradley: Soul of America -- gave a glimpse into how Bradley turned pain and heartbreak into joy and love.  One of the great live performers of his time, Bradley’s 2016 appearance on CBS This Morning: Saturday was nominated for a 2017 Daytime Emmy award for “Outstanding On-Camera Musical Performance in a Daytime Program.”  In celebration of his amazing life and to commemorate what would have been Bradley’s 70th birthday, Daptone Records imprint Dunham Records in November 2018 released Black Velvet -- a collection of ten songs recorded during the sessions from each of his previous three albums, produced by Tom Brenneck and performed by the Menahan Street Band.  Charles also appears on the “A” side of  Daptones’ 100th Forty-Five - “Hey Brother” - out June 29, 2019. 

Innit Recordings is a record label based in NYC.  Current artists include Lolawolf, James Levy and Crewshade.

Cover photo by Giles Clement (@gilesclement)

Charles Bradley - Lucifer

From the album Victim of Love. Out now on Dunham/Daptone Records.  

Buy it here: http://bit.ly/1E03bOb

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