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Sunday Afternoon Thread: Maze featuring Frankie Beverly Week
Saturday Evening Thread: RIP Bobby Womack, The Poet
Another legend gone, but his music is timeless GROWN FOKE music. Bobby's songs were not those weepy dreamy eyed love songs...and they weren't those that were just a video fantasy..nope. His songs were for the GROWN-UPs. You didn't need a video to get the visual for "If You Think You're Lonely Now"! He gave it straight, no chaser. Love Has Finally Come At Last w/Patti Labelle … [Read more...] about Saturday Evening Thread: RIP Bobby Womack, The Poet
Friday Open Thread: Black Music Month celebrates the night James Brown saved Boston
Happy Friday POU! Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death could not have been more devastating to African American communities across the country hoping to see the civil rights leader live to build on the successes of the movement. Despite King’s painfully prophetic “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech the day before his assassination in Memphis Tennessee, most people hoped … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Black Music Month celebrates the night James Brown saved Boston
Wednesday Open Thread: Black Music Month celebrates WattStax!
Happy Hump Day POU! We certainly couldn't do this series without paying tribute to the ultimate gathering of soul musicians in historic Watts! The infamous WattStax concert was held at the Los Anageles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972, and organized byMemphis's Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Watts riots. Wattstax was seen by some as … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Black Music Month celebrates WattStax!