After going viral and amassing a stupid amount of views on Youtube, The Hawkmen’s Baby Tonight finally gets a single release – albeit a digital one – that includes both studio and live versions. If you caught the band’s self-titled hotrod n soul album (multiple tracks of which have received Craig Charles rotation) you’ll definitely have noticed Baby Tonight around halfway through the
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THE HAWKMEN: Baby Tonight + live video
LONNIE LESTER: The Story Of Lonnie Lester (2013)
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And here is the latest drop on Tramp Records‘ excellent The Story Of… series – can we seriously expect the quality to continue? Of course we can it’s Tramp Records! Good god why would you even raise the question? You didn’t? Let’s hear no more about it then. Now – Lonnie Lester – there’s a man with soul CV. Went on the road with Junior Walker, opened for Sam & Dave
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THE ELECTRIC SLIDESHOW SOUNDSYSTEM: Resense 025 (2012)
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Meet The Electric Slideshow Soundsystem a.k.a Don Rogall and Earl Zinger. Their minds are clearly awash with crazy notions that today’s discerning clubber is after a brew of jazz, sixties rnb, and latin music with big beat production and a vocalist who sounds like a cross between that bloke from Yello and Ronnie Wood. And they might just be right
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THE ONE & NINES: Tell Me/ Make It Easy (2011)
Here’s a sweet original rnb-styled 45 from New Jersey band The One & Nines that might be of interest to anyone who caught The Excitements self-titled release earlier in the year. And if you like G Love & Special Sauce too you’ll shit when you hear the A side. Guitarist Jeff Marino’s G-style vocals aside, the uptempo Tell Me also features some nifty James Burton style fretwork and a horn section. Nuff said
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T BIRD & THE BREAKS: Never Get Out Of This Funk Alive + The Clap Hands Song (2011) – free download
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By way of promoting their forthcoming second full length album Never Get Out Of This Funk Alive ( due 12 July 2010) Texan heavy funk crew T Bird & The Breaks offer up not one, but two huge slabs of funk as freely downloadable promo singles. The LP title track Never Get Out Of This Funk Alive is a bumping, Ohio Players-esque kind of thang with a little more of the seventies in it
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THE EXCITEMENTS: ‘The Excitements’ – Album (2011)
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This album’ll be this year’s first full-length antidote to the slew of noodly-jazzy-white-boys-playing-funk-masquerading-as-‘deep funk and soul,’ and not a minute too soon. But – hang on – these songs aren’t original – they’re old soul/ rnb numbers by the likes of Little Richard and Barbara Stephens! Aren’t The Excitements just a covers band? Fuck off! They aren’t just anything
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