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I want to introduce to you the soulful sounds of Jayanti, an independent singer-songwriter from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Jayanti was 1 of 4 fresh faces of July on YouTube’s Music Tuesdays channel. Along with this feature on YouTube’s home page, Jayanti’s no-budget video “Girl from Mars” earned over 200,000 views! |
| In addition, I also wanted to share with you Jayanti’s beautiful rendition of “Inside My Love” - a tribute to songbird Minnie Riperton? More info can be found on Bandcamp and www.jayanti.me. Jayanti’s single “Girl from Mars” is now available for purchase on iTunes. | |
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Just Added 1800 tracks/songs for about 100 Albums of the Bar-Kays, Brick, Breakwater, Narada, Ebonee Webb, Heat, Cameo, Chocolat Milk, Color Blind, Crown Heights Affair, Dazz Band, Delegation, Deodato, Glass George duke, Bill Summers & Summerheat, Bionic Boogie, Dennis Edwards and many more. |  |
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YORK (AP) - Wilson Pickett, the soul pioneer best known for the fiery
hits "Mustang Sally" and "In The Midnight Hour," died of a heart attack
Thursday in a Reston, Va., hospital, according to his management
company. He was 64. Chris Tuthill of the management company Talent Source said Pickett had been suffering from health problems for the past year. Pickett lived in Ashburn, Va. . |
Mamas Gun will be releasing his new single ‘Only One (Featuring Beverley Knight)’ on January 9th 2012.
The track is taken from Mama’s Gun latest album ‘The Life And Soul’ which was released in the summer of 2011. The video for the single which sees the band and Beverley Knight perform the track live at Kensaltown Studios in London.
Click here to see the Video of Only On on Youtube
Digital stream - http://soundcloud.com/mamas-gun/09-only-one
Mamas Gun will be playing the Jazz Café, London on January 20th 2012.
www.mamasgun.co.uk
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Humpty Dumpty is not the traditional egg, but a somewhat egg-shaped bass playing cat! This track is from the CD release "Music in Motion" from Groove Kid Nation. Rodney Lee is a professional musician and with this release he wants to bring the funk into the next generation!
Don Cornelius the founder and presenter of the legendary music show the Soul Train has died. The Soul Train was aired from 1971 - 1993 thus hundreds of artists were featured. Some tunes from the show did get very famous like MFSB - The Sound Of Philadelphia, O' Jays's Love Train. Artists like Jodey Watley and Howard Hewitt of Shalamar started their career via the Soul Train. Don Cornelius was 75 years old. May he rest in Peace.
Soul Brother Records is specialized in, new, reissues and originals, of soul funk and jazz CD’s and vinyl records. The shop is open 7 days a week, Mondayto Saturday 10am - 7pm, Sunday 11am - 5pm. You can already visit theirwebsite to let reserve your items you want to pick during your stay. Three advantages, you will have the item you want, your visit cost less time and your wife isn't upset about that;-)
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Vesta Williams, known by her hits 'Once Bitten Twice Shy' and 'Don't Blow A Good Thing', is no longer with us. She passed away. Thursday, September 22nd., 2011 in her Los Angeles hotel room at a very young age. The police believed she died by a possible drug overdose. She started as backup singer for artist like Sting, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan and Anita Baker. In 1986 she released her solo debut album Vesta on A&M records. A masterpiece with collaboration of well known artists like Patrice Rushen, Natahan East, Gene Page, Charles Fearing and Bryan Loren. |
 | Two brand new re-issues of 70s and 80s albums are available on CD. One CD with two classic albums of The Main Ingredient featuring Cuba Gooding, the 'Shame on The World' from 1975 and 'I Only Have Eyes For you' from 81. As bonus track 'Spoiled' from 1980. And of course the track 'Party People'. |
 | The other re-issue is the 1984 album Sincerely by the The Emotions. The girl group who where also responsable for many Earth Wind And Fire hits. For the freaks some bonus tracks are available of the tune 'You're the best'. Both re-issues are available on expansionrecords.com |
 | Levi Stubbs, the legendary lead singer of the Four Tops, and one of the greatest soul vocalists of all time, has died in Detroit after a long illness. Stubbs' death leaves only one remaining Tops founding member, Abdul "Duke" Fakir. As the distinctive lead of the Four Tops, Stubbs was best known for his deep, passionate vocal style that turned Holland-Dozier-Holland compositions like "Bernadette" and "Reach Out" and later, upon the group's move from Motown to ABC Records, on adult soul songs such as "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I Got)" and "Keeper of the Castle." |
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On Nov 16th, ESL Music presents the debut EP “Booty Lock” by Frank Mitchell Jr.! A mysterious rogue hailing from Washington DC, Frank Mitchell Jr. has a voice like honey and the sensibilities of a man that’d make Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield blush.Side A features the no-nonsense roller-skating disco jam “Booty Lock.”Rubbery bass, wah-wah guitars, and silky horns don’t even begin to describe the naughtiness within.The B side, in this case “B” for “bad ass,” features “Body and Mind” another future soul classic.Just get a little closer and let the rhythm grab you by the hips and draw you in! |
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