Tuesday, March 31, 2009

03-30-06: Staccato Signals Of Constant Information

There is a bit of a Beatles theme on this mix, with their lovely "Two Of Us", as well as a couple of Beatles covers: a young Bob Marley doing "And I Love Her" and Bill Withers with a magnificent version of "Let It Be".  George Harrison is also on here with a live version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".

Other stuff: Tricky's hypnotic "Overcome", Lou Rawls covering Randy Newman with "Let's Burn Down The Cornfield",  Johnny Bristol's suave "Woman, Woman" as a single and a brief reprise, the chipper "La Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme" by Cleoma Breaux and Joseph Flacon, the wry and similarly accordion-driven "The Boy In The Bubble" by Paul Simon, Syreeta's sweet "Happiness", Ghosface Killah's spooky "Underwater", The Four Tops' soothing "Still Water (Love)", The Heptones' determined "Message From A Black Man", Quasimoto's strange "Bartender Say", Funkadelic's playful "If You Got Fun, You Got Style",  The Traveling Wilburys' goofy "Poor House", Marlena Shaw's funky "Liberation Conversation", Nirvana's catchy "Sappy", James Brown & Marva Whitney's hushed version of Bobby Hebb's "Sunny", Grant Lee Buffalo's reflective "Happiness", and Bjork's haunting duet with Thom Yorke "I've Seen It All".