Set List - May 5, 2013

Fill-in for "Eclectic Soul"

Hubbard, Freddie - Son of Sky Dive - Polar AC - CTI

Smith, Lonnie - Afro-Desia - Afrodesia - Groove Merchant

Hammond, Johnny - Higher Ground - Higher Ground - Kudu
Lewis, Ramsey - Living for the City - Sun Goddess - Columbia
Green, Grant - Afro Party - The Final Comedown - Blue Note
Scott-Heron, Gil - The Bottle - It's Your World - Arista
The Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park - City Life - Fantasy
B.T. Express - Express - Do It 'Til You're Satisfied - Scepter
Brass Construction - Ha Cha Cha - Brass Construction II - United Artists
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Brother Gree (the Disco King) - Mystic Voyage - Polydor
Smith, Lonnie Liston - A Chance for Peace - Visions of a New World - Flying Dutchman
Slave - Slide - Slide - Cotillion
Brown, James - Make It Funky, Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4 (cut) - Make It Funky: The Big Payback: 1971-1975 - Polydor
Collins, Lyn - Do Your Thing - James Brown's Funky People Part 2 - Polydor
Pickett, Wilson - Don't Knock My Love - Don't Knock My Love - Atlantic

Set List - April 29, 2013

Fill-in show by Darrick of Eclectic Soul.  (Thanks!)

Mademoiselle Mabry-Miles Davis

Song For My Father-Horace Silver

Rikki Don't Lose That Number-Steely Dan

You Made a Believer Out Of Me-Ruby Andrews

T Plays It Cool-Marvin Gaye

I Got A Good 'Un-John Lee Hooker

Down Here On The Ground-Grant Green

Love, Love, Love-Donnie Hathaway

Soul Vibrations-Dorothy Ashby

Money Runner-Alan Tew

Green Dolphin Streer-Sonny Lester

Slipping Into Darkness-Ramsey Lewis

Soul Searching-Average White Band

Bumpy's Lament-Soul Mann and the Brothers

Naima-Doug Carn

Fell Together-Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson

See The Light-Eddie Russ

My Love Is Forever-Prince

Q-Brothers Johnson

I Know Him-Disciples of Chicago

Written on the Wall-The Initiations

Ain't Got The Love-The Ambassadors

One Step Ahead-Aretha Franklin

Bettina-Bola Setts

A Ballad for Joe (Louis)-The Crusaders

A Chair In The Sky-Joni Mitchell

More info on Eclectic Soul here:

http://wcsb.org/programs/program-details/?show=22

 

Set List - April 22, 2013

White, Bukka - My Baby - Sky Songs - Arhoolie
McDowell, Mississippi Fred - My Trouble Blues - You Got to Move - Arhoolie
McDowell, Mississippi Fred - You Ain't Treatin' Me Right - This Ain't No Rock n' Roll - Arhoolie
Wells, Junior - One Way Out - September 16, 1966 - Club 47, Cambridge, MA - Bootleg
Wells, Junior - Junior's Whoop - Live in Boston 1966 - Delmark
Guy, Buddy and Junior Wells - The Thrill is Gone/Watching You - April 5, 1973 - Shabu Inn, Mansfield, CT - Bootleg
Rush, Otis - I Can't Quit You Baby – “Live in Boston – 1973” - Joe's Place, Boston, MA - Bootleg
King, Freddie - Big Legged Woman - Live at the Electric Ballroom 1974 - Shout Factory
Taylor, Eddie - I Feel So Bad - I Feel So Bad - The Blues of Eddie Taylor - Hightone
Hooker, John Lee - Rock Steady - The Father of the Blues "Live" - Tomato
Taylor, Hound Dog - Dust My Broom - November 28, 1972 - Joe's Place, Cambridge, MA - Bootleg
Taylor, Hound Dog - Wild About You Baby - September 9, 1973 - Ann Arbor Blues Festival, Ann Arbor, MI - Bootleg
Taylor, Hound Dog - See You in the Evening - March 14, 1975 - ABC Radio, Australia - Bootleg
Burnside, R.L. - Going' Down South - June 10, 1996 - The Silver Dollar, Toronto, CA - Bootleg
Burnside, R.L. - Skinny Woman - April 26, 1998 - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA - Bootleg
Burnside, R.L. - Boogie Chillen - April 29, 2000 - Double Decker Arts Festival, Oxford, MS - Bootleg

Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll - David A. Carson

Ask yourself: "Are there enough books about the MC5 and the Stooges?"  The answer is: "Of course there's not."  Well, here is another one, and it has a bunch of other stuff about a bunch of other bands in it.  Yeah, I loved this book and recommend it.  The author is a native of the scene and did his homework.  It covers a lot of ground but it could have been three times longer.  I'd say it is a good place to start but I am not sure there is that much more out there about the Rationals.  I'll check.

Set List - April 15, 2013

Gillespie, Dizzy - We Love to Boogie - Odyssey: 1945-1952 - Savoy
Gillespie, Dizzy - Tin Tin Deo - Odyssey: 1945-1952 - Savoy
Gillespie, Dizzy - Birk's Works - Odyssey: 1945-1952 - Savoy
Taylor, Billy - Soul Sister - Right Here, Right Now - Capitol
Taylor, Billy - Freedom - Right Here, Right Now - Capitol
JuJu - (Struggle) HOME - A Message From Mozambique - Strata-East
The Contemporary Jazz Quintet - Tao - Location - Strata
Smith, Lonnie - I Can't Stand It - Live at Club Mozambique - Blue Note
Green, Grant - More Today Than Yesterday - Live at Club Mozambique - Blue Note
Person, Houston - You Are The Sunshine of My Life - The Real Thing - Eastbound
Earland, Charles - Black Talk - Black Talk - Prestige
Earland, Charles - The Mighty Burner - Black Talk - Prestige
Soul Bros. - Drive - Various - Shaftman: Introducing a Bad Mutha - Crypt
Taylor, Tommy - Whoop It On Me - Various - Shaftman: Introducing a Bad Mutha - Crypt
Julian, Don and the Larks - Shorty the Pimp - Various - Shaftman: Introducing a Bad Mutha - Crypt
Earth, Wind & Fire - Fan the Fire - The Eternal Dance - Columbia

The Faith of a Writer - Joyce Carol Oates

“Write for your own time, if not for your own generation exclusively. You can’t write for ‘posterity’ – it doesn’t exist. You can’t write for a departed world.” pp. 24-25


“But James Joyce was protected by the unpopularity of his work. He enjoyed, as his brother Stanislaus observed, ‘that inflexibility firmly rooted in failure.’” p. 71

“The most admirable thing about the fantastic, Andre Breton said, is that the fantastic does not exist: everything is real.” p. 82

“Joyce offered no rejoinder to his brother Stanislaus’s judgment that Finnegans Wake is ‘unspeakably wearisome . . . the witless wandering of literature before its final extinction. I would not read a paragraph of it if I did not know you.’” p. 132

Harry Crew - A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

"It was always the women who scared me. The stories that women told and that men told were full of violence, sickness, and death. But it was the women whose stories were unrelieved by humor and filled with apocalyptic vision. No matter how awful the stories were that the men told they were always funny. The men's stories were stories of character, rather than of circumstance, and they always knew the people the stories were about. But women would repeat stories about folks they did not know and had never seen, and consequently, without character counting for anything, the stories were as stark and cold as legend or myth."  pp. 100-101