Today, November 17th 2009, is when I started the journey towards being a Vinyl DJ and a more serious music blogger. So in a measure of thanks, I’m speeding up my normal as of the past year trying to post a new mix and accompanying blog as we head into Thanksgiving week so you’ll have…
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Sylvia’s Work: Sister Soul Songwriter Standing In The Shadows of Motown 1964-1975
The music industry isn’t a kind place to women. Even now, there’s more hurdles that keep women mostly out of control of their artistic output rather than giving them the full creative reign of their male counterparts. The situation is more heightened for Women of Color, especially Black women. Often, and yet still, you are…
The Telephone Game: 30 Gabbing Soul Classics From The Land Before Text Messaging
What is a telephone in this modern world of 2017? Most of us use them as Cameras, Newspapers and Western Union Telegrams. What we rarely use them for at this stage of evolution is to actually directly talk to people. Rare it seems for people born after the Baby Boom to engage with the ritual…
Keeper of The Flame: Your Sagittarius Season Playlist to be Thankful For
Here we are, just past the 15th degree of Saturn in Sagittarius and 0-1 Sagittarius Season. Are you gathering your thoughts and wisdom to collect at the end of the year? What are you thankful for? Maybe what you’ve got, what you’ve learned, what you’ve lost. The Final Fire Sign that keeps us warm as…
Becky Has The Blues, Darth Susan Succeeds: Your Post-Election Playlist
And here we are, at the end of a tumultuous election season. Admittedly, I have to absolutely scrap everything previously that I wrote in the anticipation that we’d be here, November 9th, 2016, heralding our first female president. We’re not this morning, in fact there’s a number of us mourning in this reckoning, and I’m…
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