So here it is. Finally. The moment that I've deluded myself into thinking you've all been waiting for, my official Summer of Soul mix, coyly declaring this third funky summer as the summer of "Socialist Healthcare Jammin'". The title implicates some of the political aspects of the mix, but more so I think it really just captures the feeling of this past year-- the fear, the tragedies, the neuroses, and the challenges that beg for some uplifting jams as well as compassion. Much of it gleaned from the Blog-o-Sphere, Summer of Soul may be steeped in nostalgia (for summers past and such) but this and the S.O.S. Electric Boogaloo mix are both a product of the present. Present tastes in soul music are themselves current interpretations of the past, and in their collection and presentation I have always tried to capture the feeling of the year for me as well as the world at large. This mix is dedicated to all the wonderful friends in New York I have had in the past four years, and will be leaving shortly. A reminder of the time we shared, and the strange history that has framed that time. That being said I will leave you with a poem by Wallace Stevens.... cause I've been jamming on that of late too.
Jasmine's Beautiful Thoughts Underneath The Willow -Wallace Stevens
My titillations have no foot-notes
And their memorials are the phrases
Of idiosyncratic music.
The love that will not be transported
In an old, frizzled, flambeaud manner,
But muses on its eccentricity,
Is like a vivid apprehension
Of bliss beyond the mutes of plaster,
Or paper souvenirs of rapture,
Of bliss submerged beneath appearance,
In an interior ocean's rocking
Of long, capricious fugues and chorals
01-Intimate Friends 5:48 Eddie Kendricks
02-Earthquake Shake 3:04 Undisputed Truth Comic Truth
04-Could it be I'm Falling in Love 4:10 The Spinners Smash Hits
05-Good Old Music 3:17 The Parliaments
06-California Soul 3:01 Marlena Shaw The Spice of Life
08-Plenty Action 2:52 SOFT TOUCH Bay Area Funk
09-Lady Day and John Coltrane 3:31 Gil Scott Heron Mastercuts Bar Social: The Early Hours 10-Tightrope (Feat. Big Boi) 4:23 Janelle Monáe The ArchAndroid
11-Who is He? (And What is He to You) 3:10 Bill Withers
12-Mercy Mercy Me 3:16 Marvin Gaye What's Going On
13-I'm Controlled by Your Love 3:07 Helene Smith Eccentric Soul: The Deep City Label 14-Call Me 3:05 Al Green Call Me
15-That's the Way it is 2:26 Eddie Bo Eddie Bo's Funky Funky New Orleans
16-Donde 3:27 Bronx River Parkway An Introduction to Truth & Soul Records
17-Up Against Tha Wall (Getaway Car Mix) 4:34 Group Home Livin' Proof
18-What You Won't Do For Love 3:25 Bobby Caldwell
19-Come in Out of the Rain 2:45 Parliament Osmium
Im a big fan of this dude
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