The Seafaring Gypsy

The 1-Hour Jukebox Jam Session

1. Black is Black - Los Bravos
2. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
3. Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones
4. Long Cool Woman - The Hollies
5. Game of Love - The Mindbenders
6. Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Mannfred Mann
7. Staggolee - Pacific Gas & Electric
8. Let’s Get Together - We Five
9. Runaround Sue - Dion
10. Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry
11. You Send Me - Sam Cooke
12. Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis
13. You Send Me - Aretha Franklin
14. You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling - The Righteous Brothers
15. You Make Me Feel So Good - The Zombies
16. My Girl - The Temptations
17. What I’d Say - Ray Charles

One-Hour iPod Shuffle

One hour of iPod jamming on shuffle.

Of course, skipping a track is strictly verboten.

Time started: 10:16 EST

1. After Laughter (Comes Tears) - Wendy Rene
2. Hoodoo Man Blues (Live) - Junior Wells & Buddy Guy
3. The Golden Age - Beck
4. U Can’t Touch This - MC Hammer
5. Ain’t Got Nothin’ - Supreme Beings of Leisure
6. Mason Jar - The Morning Benders
7. Brimful of Asha - Cornershop
8. Every Day is Exactly the Same - Nine Inch Nails
9. Memphis Soul Stew - King Curtis
10. Wonderland - Janelle Monae
11. Another Sunny Day - Belle & Sebastian
12. Stand Your Ground - The Black Box Revelation
13. Pushin’ Too Hard - The Seeds

Music Conversations

Dock of the Bay

Do you want to know what just absolutely kills me? Just floors me? When I listen to Otis Redding’s “Dock of the Bay,” and right between the 1:49 and 1:50 mark, you can actually hear Steve Cropper slide his hands over the strings of his guitar. 

It’s this perfectly human moment contained within an extraordinary song. An outside listener may think that song is otherworldly, and they’d be right, but that one, single, tell-tale sign, is Steve Cropper’s fingers on the guitar. And that is exactly what makes it so decidedly and definitely human. As a result, it’s jaw-dropping in its humanity. 

You Send Me by Sam Cooke

*sigh*

"Not to put too fine a point on it,
say I’m the only bee in your bonnet.
Make a little birdhouse in your soul."

- They Might Be Giants

mojomagazine:

MOJO Rising: Charles Bradley

Origin: Gainesville, Florida, USA.

MOJO says: “The man they call the ‘The Screaming Eagle Of Soul’. The 62-year-old gravel-voiced testifier is the newest recruit to Brooklyn’s Daptone label, home to Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings. In 1962, Bradley witnessed a performance by James Brown at Harlem’s Apollo. It was a life-changing experience. Almost a decade spent working in the kitchens at a hospital for the mentally ill and several years of singing in pick-up bands eventually led to 2011’s blistering No Time For Dreaming, a mix of gritty messages and raw-nerve hitting ballads. ‘It took me 40 years to get to my dream,’ says the man who counts Otis Redding and Sam Cooke as inspirations. ‘You just gotta have faith, keep moving forward.’”

Current release: No Time For Dreaming is out now on Daptone.

Want more?: Read MOJO’s interview with Charles Bradley in the current issue of the magazine.

If you don’t know you had better ask somebody.

thesouljerk:

supposedghosts:

Don Covay - Sookie Sookie

Sookie-Sookie-Sookie-Sookie-Soooooooo

(via fuckyeahsoulmusic)

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