Rhythm and Blues today

Barbara Lynn - You’re Losing Me

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:04:41 +0000

Soul”. Along with “Take Your Love And Run”, and “Moving On A Groove”, Barbara has become a bit of a Northern Soul icon. Barbara Lynn (born Barbara Lynn Ozen, later Barbara Lynn Cumby 16 January 1942 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American rhythm and blues guitarist and singer. She played piano as a child, but switched to guitar. Inspired by blues artists Guitar Slim and Jimmy Reed, and pop acts Elvis Presley and Brenda Lee, she created an all-female band, Bobbie Lynn and the Idols. Singer …

Electric Blues

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:43:49 +0000

happening baby it’s where it’s at daddy They chain ya and brainwash ya When you least suspect it They feed ya mass media The age is electric I got the electric blues I got the electric blues Thwump… rackety… whomp Rock… folk rock… rhythm and blues Electronics explodin’… rackety-clack Thwump… rackety… whomp Plugged in… turned on We’re all encased in sonic armor Beltin’ it out through chrome grenades Miles and miles of medusan chord The electronic sonic boom It’s what’s …

Rhythm and Blues Revue Series Part 1

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:08:48 +0000

Baby its hot outside! If what you need is something cooooool to bring your core temperature down, weve got the goods for you! From a series of early 1950s televised music broadcasts comes this collection of some of the best Jazz and Soul artists of the 20th century! In part 1 check out performances from Lionel Hampton, Faye Adams, Bill Bailey, Herb Jeffries and Freddy Flo!

? Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher live at Harlem Apollo Theatre

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:26:22 +0000

Live - Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955) Musical variety show filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City Cab Calloway of Blues Brothers fame performs Minnie The Moocher … Cab Calloway Minnie The Moocher live Apollo Theatre Harlem Blues Brothers Rhythm and Revue

Roll Over Beethoven

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:00:55 +0000

hear it again today You know my temperature’s rising And the jukebox’s blowin’ a fuse My hearts beatin’ rhythm And my soul keeps singing the blues Roll over Beethoven And tell Tchaikovsky the news I got a rocking pneumonia I need a shot of rhythm and blues I think I got it off the writer Sittin’ down by the rhythm review Roll over Beethoven We’re rockin’ in two by two Well if you fell you like it Well get your lover and reel and rock it Roll it over and move on up Just jump around and reel …

Funk, Soul and Rhythm and Blues

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:30:23 +0000

In 1970, a new strand of Rhythm and Blues (R&B) was hitting the airwaves, funk music. Rhythm and Blues artists like Little Richard, James Brown, Parliament Funkadelic, and the Meters helped to pave the way to R&B Funk topping record charts and filling nightclubs with a funky new beat.

Psychedelic soul hit the music industry in the late 60’s giving the R&Bs a blend of rock and soul with that had an upbeat tempo that one could move their feet to on the dance floor. It was the crack that led to the opening to funk and disco a few years later.

Funk music could be classified as a mixture of soul music with a dash of jazz, and R&B, with a strong rhythmic groove built from the electric bass, drums, and the electric guitar. They often have a strong horn section as well where the sax added the soul and the trumpets and trombone accented the rhythmic beats.

When taking a trip down funk music memory lane you can’t help think back to the 70’s artists such as Rufus feat, Chaka Khan, Earth, Wind & Fire, Eric Burdon & War, Tower of Power, Average White Band, The Commodores, and Kool & the Gang. The thing with funk music back in the 70’s and still today is that no one band or artists was bound to just that one style of music. These same artist and many more also played other genres of music such as disco and rare soul music. Funk just opened the doors to new venues as well as new genres of music such as disco beats, hip hop, and go-go and punk music.

By the early 80’s funk took on a bit more of a spin and became more sultry and sexual in content with the help of artists such as Prince. After all, the initial oncoming of funk was based off the idea of getting your groove on or sexual intercourse to be more direct. A song would start with a slow rhythmic groove working up to a harder, pounding, and more insistent and demanding rhythm.

The 80’s also brought musical instrument changes to the traditional funk sounds with the exchange from live horn sections to synth keyboards, organs and pianos were replaced with electronic machines and synthesizers as well. Even the drums were replaced by electronics taking a good part of the show out of funk today. Lyrics that used to be innuendos of sexual content have become straight out obvious sexual content.

The late 80’s and early 90’s brought funk into yet another light as rock bands started incorporating funk sounds to their venue calling it funk rock or funk metal. However through all the changes of Funk R&B influences that earlier performs such as James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, The Meters, The Funk Brothers, and Bootsy Collins still remain.

By: Tex Johnson

The Beatles - A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:52:31 +0000

From “Live at the BBC”

Gomez - Rhythm And Blues Alibi

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:17:36 +0000

Gomez - Rhythm And Blues Alibi VIRGIN (P) 1999 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Virgin Records Ltd

POR SUPUESTO RHYTHM AND BLUES

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:52:57 +0000

RHYTHM AND BLUES IN SPAIN ANDY PHILLIPS FREDDY MARUGAN BOB SANDS ALEJANDRO VAQUERIZO JULIO CANO

Undercurrent Blues Has A Rhythm of Its Own - Poetry Book Review

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:18:44 +0000

On July 17, 2005 Cahuenga Press released Undercurrent Blues by James Cushing (Cahuenga is a cooperative press and Undercurrent Blues is the 14th book they have published since their inception in 1989). The collection includes poems written from 1989 through 1991 and 1997 through 2002. If you’re like me, you immediately ask where 1992 through 1996 went. Mr. Cushing explains the skip in time in his Author’s Note at the beginning of the book. Basically, the poetry included reflects the first 25 years of his writing life.

In Undercurrent Blues, The poems from 1989 through 1991 are from Mr. Cushing’s first book, You and the Night and the Music published by Cahuenga Press in 1991. The titles and poems are inspired by 20th Century American songs that have become jazz standards. In Fly Me to the Moon Mr. Cushing’s lyrical style matches the desire for transport in that old standard but he offers us a deeper yearning in his stanzas.
We picked roles (insomniac shepherd, complaining nymph) from

a basket of fruit. Orisons rise from every third house, a glow like

a broadcast ending, and we wanted this, to live near the sun, that

constant burnt offering.

His poetry from 1997 through 2002 is a reaction to the death of both parents and the end of his second marriage – to put it in the author’s words “darker stimulation”. In spite of the dark stimulation, these poems have a sly sense of humor, an acceptance of life’s slings and arrows. Of these, The Turn of April shows the author’s recovering hope:

I think we are moving, slowly and patiently,

within a great walled garden along an eastern path,

and I think I can assume we keep walking, lightly

and with kindness, until the garden ends, and we fall off the edge

where the next dream begins in a rush of kisses and cameras.

Undercurrent Blues by James Cushing asserts that music shapes us but also encourages the reader to play with its rhythms in order to fully incorporate its influence on our psyche. In the second half of the book, Mr. Cushing acknowledges the darker moments of life but offers hope and a bit of a lesson in maintaining one’s sense of humor.

By: Sanora Bartels