John Spithead
KEXP 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SundaySoul
Swamp Dogg:
🎵 I Was Born Blue
I Was Born Blue, by Swamp Dogg
from the album Total Destruction To Your Mind
It's my year, it's my time
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-9869-0bd2-05c7-84d527635399
Can you please explain this word called equality?
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1868-feb4-d850-ac9478987842
Andi ChorleyIn Between Tears by Irma Thomas, released on Fungus in 1973.
Review by Jason Ankeny
In the wake of 1969's devastating Hurricane Camille, New Orleans soul queen Irma Thomas abandoned the Gulf Coast in favor of the West Coast, settling in Los Angeles and largely forsaking her singing career in favor of the relative stability of retail work. Thomas finally resurfaced in 1973 with a series of little-noticed singles on the Fungus label that teamed her with producer Jerry "Swamp Dogg" Williams and guitarist Duane Allman -- the resulting LP In Between Tears remains a lost classic that captures deep soul at its most poignant and resonant, couching Thomas' deeply affecting vocals in earthy arrangements that emphasize the singer's gospel roots. The sass and vivacity of Thomas' earliest singles is long gone, replaced by the world-weary melancholy of a woman struggling simply to hold on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MwXWgWXbmI&list=PLYYNNqCkheU8W4yFVc6gamcRBOk348pTg&index=6
#IrmaThomas #SwampDogg #Music #Soul #DuaneAllman #NewOrleans
BBC6Music 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Swamp Dogg:
🎵 The World Beyond
https://joyfulnoise.bandcamp.com/track/the-world-beyond-swamp-dogg-cover
The World Beyond (Swamp Dogg cover), by Marijuana Deathsquads
from the album The World Beyond
That Other PlaceThis week's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #StrongVerbs. Here's a list of the first five tunes that I came up with:
The Four Seasons: Walk Like A Man (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzoIvwNqKpw
The Velvet Underground: Run Run Run (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwHIs7IafD0
Jerry Williams: Run Run Roadrunner (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53J7OWwB9I4
Irma Thomas: Think Again (1964, originally unreleased)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XpujWCxbts
Bobby Bland: Cry Cry Cry (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNrxz-A19WY
#music #fourseasons #velvetunderground #jerrywilliams #swampdogg #irmathomas #bobbybland
The Four Seasons - Walk Like A Man (Official Audio)
This week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme is #BodyParts. This is what I came up with:
The Johnny Otis Show: Willie and the Hand Jive (a 1959 live version with the Three Tons of Joy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEeeGMpM_Nk
The Flares: Foot Stomping - Part 1 (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjNGR4Yx8Rc
The Miracles: From Head to Toe (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W58UhlRdr1Y
Little Jerry Williams: Baby, You're My Everything (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv9_tzNrE6c
And finally, with a content warning for death, tragedy and extreme bad taste:
Jimmy Cross: I Want My Baby Back (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo8DhbQw_O4
#music #johnnyotis #theflares #themiracles #smokeyrobinson #swampdogg #jimmycross #teenagedeathsongs
Johnny Otis - Willie and the Hand Jive
VarietySXSW: Magnolia Buys Music Documentary ‘Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted’ (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #News #Magnolia #SwampDogg
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sxsw-magnolia-buys-swamp-dogg-gets-his-pool-painted-1236335883/
