Tuesday 12-inch Flashback: ‘Rise’

A free Candye Kane download

I knew nothing about Candye Kane until I heard a song of hers on B.B. King’s satellite radio channel – Bluesville – this very morning.

Turns out she’s a former stripper and porn model who is now a respected blues singer and songwriter... as well as a left-wing activist, cancer survivor and bisexual.

Other than that, she’s an average Jewish chick from East L.A.

Candye Kane’s latest CD, “Superhero,” came out in June.

Click here to hear “I Put a Hex on You” on my Vox blog. To download a FREE MP3, click the title below.

“I Put a Hex on You” (MP3)
Album available at iTunes Music Store
Album availabe at Amazon MP3

Random Japaneseness

Ever wondered what the Japanese word for "underpants" is?

A free James “Blood” Ulmer download

Want a FREE MP3 from progressive jazz guitarist James “Blood” Ulmer? I think you do. (It pays to visit Amazon.com every once in a while to see what they’re giving away.)

Click here to hear “Last One” on my Vox blog. This cut appeared on Ulmer’s 2005 CD “Back in Time.”

It’s now available on a digital sampler from the avant-garde label Pi Recordings. To download “Last One,” follow this link to Amazon.

Too bad I don’t have TV One.

Anybody see the “Unsung” episode with Bootsy earlier this month? Here is a taste:

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I ate so much yesterday...

... I couldn’t sleep through the night. So there I was at 3 a.m., scanning through all the cable channels, and I saw the same infomercial playing on four different channels simultaneously.

It was for TimeLife’s “Sweet Soul of the ’70s” CD set. My first time seeing that infomercial.

Also my first time getting an extended look at Cuba Gooding, Sr., father of the well-known actor.

Cuba Sr. was lead singer of the Main Ingredient. Click here to hear my favorite hit of his, “Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely.”

Below is a 4½-minute interview with Mr. Gooding off of TimeLife’s YouTube channel. He tells an interesting tale about “Everybody Plays the Fool,” the Main Ingredient’s biggest record. Turns out it was written with Charley Pride in mind...

Playlist: Funky Thanksgiving

I want to thank all of you who continue to visit this blog. Next month will be my three-year blogiversary. Where does the time go?

I’m also thankful for the fact that I got a job. I’ll be having Thanksgiving dinner down here in New Orleans with executive producer Nina Noble and other members of the “Treme” family.

To celebrate the day, let me share some live tracks I just purchased from the fine folks at DigitalSoundboard.net. These come fresh out the oven... recorded two weeks ago at the Bear Creek Music & Art Festival in North Florida.

New Orleans funk, Parliament funk, James Brown funk... y’all hear me out there? Click the titles below for 37 minutes of streaming jam-bandy goodness. Happy Thanksgiving!

1. “Unfunky UFO” – Ivan Neville’s DumpstaJam (feat. Bernie Worrell)

2. “Southwick/Shake Your Rugalator” – Bonerama (feat. Fred Wesley)

3. “Jam/Doing It to Death” – Papa Mali Band (feat. Fred Wesley)

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A new cut from Los Fabulosos Cadillacs

Back during Hispanic Heritage Month, I posted a playlist of Spanish-language cover songs. Represented with their version of “Should I Stay or Should I Go” were Los Fabulosos Cadillacs from Buenos Aires.

Since then, that band has released a new album. On it is a Spanish-language version of Curtis Mayfield’s “Move On Up.”

Click here to hear “Vamos Ya” on my Vox blog. It’s pretty cool.

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Whilst riding through New Orleans today, I saw a big billboard for a personal-injury lawyer. It said: “Crippling injuries? Call now!”

And I thought: That sign would be a lot hipper if it said: “Crippling injuries? Call now! (With your good hand.)”

Tuesday 12-inch Flashback: ‘Keep Your Body Workin’ ’

This one is for bklyn6.

Random Japaneseness