Great Minds Think Alike...I hope.

So today I was checking out Soul-Sides (a highly recommended music blog) and saw that after I had willfully stolen their from their site, they have decided to steal from mine as well and present a mix by Manhattan MC Cool Calm Pete on the subject of, get this... food and music.  Sound Out-Loud is truly ahead of its time with proliferating this excellent combination to the inter-web, or right on it (this site is only about a week old after all), or at least on to something...I hope.  Either way i thought it was kinda cool that notable music blogger/scholar Oscar Wang hadn't thought the notion of food and music together to be too farfetched, plus the mix is pretty cool as well.

If you want to check it out, just do yourself a favor and go to Soul-Sides.

And in a similar vain, some more of the woman I love...

Fish in the Dish -Sharon Jones

Soul Music in The New Millenium: As bitchin as always, maybe more so

These days, (circa Marcus Newman's summer of soul 2008) I tend to think soul music is where its at, so needless to say I have been listening to a good bit of it lately. Among many purveyors of soul there are a lot of good soul blogs out there that are proliferating soul to the masses, the most popular one probably being Soul-Sides. Another central fixture in this trend, and what hooked me (along with the aforementioned declaration of a summer of soul), is Daptone Records founded by NYU alum (my alma mater, sooner or later) Gabirel Roth a.k.a. Bosco Mann. Essentially Daptone Records is how I learned to love soul. However I always did appreciate a good groove and was once a member of a funk band, and though there is a lot I can say about Daptone Records the woman who I owe my regards to is their flagship singer, none other than miss Sharon Jones. Her backing band, you may have heard of them, is the dap kings who were are most famously known for supplying Amy Winehouse with her signiture vintage sound. They are also on the Jay-Z remix from my first post. I saw Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings last Sat. a great show, it could've been more of a dance party than it turned out to be (too many white people I suppose). Sharon, however probably wont be making an appearance in New York for a while, but if you want to see some great live daptone soul in New York check out Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens of Brooklyn at the Fat Cat on Christopher st. and Seventh Ave. every Friday at eight.

Here are two soul tracks. One by my lady Sharon Jones (written by Bosco Mann). The other one is sung by the eminent Nina Simone, who I guess is not really a soul artist per-say but the album this song comes from is pretty soulful and I feel provides an appropriate contrast.

Sharon Jones - How Long Do I Have to Wait?(2005)

Nina Simone - He Ain't Comin Home No More(1967)

and why not another taste of Sharon...

Why Don't We All Stop Paying Taxes?

bad ass.

Also let me add that anyone who wishes to pass on a music selection, recipe, or even a complete post yourself they should feel free to send me thier contributions.