Betty Davis is the missing link between Tina Turner and Millie Jackson, her raw sex appeal proving too much for America in the early 1970s. (more…)

Parliament-Funkadelic whip up a fiery furnace of funk on this live version of Flash Light lasting almost half an hour. (more…)

Be My Baby is arguably the single most perfect pop song of all time. And surely Spector’s crowning achievement. (more…)

Nanci Griffith (6 July 1953-13 August 2021) (more…)

Soul singer and trumpeter Joe Quarterman is another unfairly overlooked funkster I’ve just stumbled upon while delving deep into a YouTube wormhole.
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I don’t know where I was in 1974… I mean, I do, but I was listening to Bowie and T.Rex, Slade and The Sweet. So I had never encountered William DeVaughn. (more…)

Going back to New Orleans, and back to the Neville Brothers, here is Aaron’s brother Art, teaming up with Allen Toussaint.
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I would be being unfair to myself – and Dolly – if I failed to include her greatest song, yet I had somehow neglected it until now. So here it is.
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I’ll make no apology for staying in New Orleans – or for posting another song by Aaron Neville, this time from 1973. (more…)