In the second herbally-themed post this weekend at MB, comes news of the next release on Growroom Productions – single Still High from The Mighty Heard. Originally the brainchild of Honest Lee and Terry T, this Hyattsville outfit rapidly enlisted other musicians to become a ‘space-funk…intergalactic soul band’ subsequently joined by rapper Abudullah ‘Dullah D’ Thompson. Despite
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THE MIGHTY HEARD: Still High
HONEST LEE: Pajarito + video
It’s been a while since the monkey’s heard from Growroom Productions label boss Honest Lee, but he’s a man who is still very much in business. Indeed, he’s got a nine-track debut album, Solera, in the offing no less. Pajarito is the first cut from it and offers flute-led, chilled-latin breakbeat vibes. This all makes perfect sense if you know what ‘pajarito’ actually means – or at least made the
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HONEST LEE: Sam Cooke Tribute EP (2014)
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Sterling work of the Gamm edits variety here as Washington DC-based Honest Lee reworks a pair of Sam Cooke-related cuts. First up is an understated disco rerub of Eddie Floyd’s version of Cooke’s Bring It On Home just in time for the anniversary of the 1962 release of Cooke’s original on 8 May. So far so good but what comes next might roll your soul even more. Yes, as
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