My music on My Space

Most of these songs are in dire need to be cleaned up. I haven't gotten around to that yet. I plan to start creating new music this year after buying some new equipment. May not work on Google Chrome.

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James Booker Live in Concert- Maple Leaf Bar 1983

                                 


I believe this is the next to last performance played by James Booker October 1983. He died a few days later. As one can tell listening, Booker grew up with strong gospel roots. Both his Father and Grandfather were ministers. Booker  is probably my favorite piano player.My wife loved him as well. (R.I.P. to both of them). What a true son of New Orleans he is. I absolutely hate the Dr. John quote that he was the "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.". He was probably the best piano player all of New Orleans ever produced. James Booker was also an awesome showman as well as a master pianist.. He even taught Harry Connick Jr. how to play piano fulfilling legal obligations to stay out of prison from Harry Connick Jr.s dad .Booker's reputation playing show's in New Orleans were of legendary status at time. Booker also played with such people as Dr. John, Ringo Starr, John Mayall, The Doobie Brothers, Labelle, Maria Muldaur, and Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. He even joined the Jerry Garcia Band for a while in 1976. Some of those recordings are phenomenal. Garcia said it felt he was backing up James Booker..He died from complications of substance abuse ( mainly heroin and alcohol) November 8 1983 at the age of 43 waiting to see a doctor in a hospital. Truly one of the best musicians ever since the dawn of time.

tracklist Papa Was a Rascal On the Sunny Side of the Street So Swell When You're Well A Taste of Honey He's Got the Whole World in His Hands Gonzo's Blue Dream Eleanor Rigby Malagueña Piano Salad Little Coquette Besame Mucho Tico Tico Over the Rainbow

D'Angelo and the Vanguard Black Messiah 2014

                                         

This is D'Angelo's first release in 14 years.called "Black Messiah" and is his third album. In that  time he has gotten much better on guitar. That being said,on this album,he plays guitar more than any other album  of his.His voice is what he really is a master at. D'Angelo has that classic  "baby making music " sound.. I can't say it was well worth the wait, but it is still really really great. If  D'angelo was one of my all time favorites, that might be a different story. Don't get me wrong, I still think he is awesome. That saying ( well worth the wait) is so cliche with anything that comes out with a long gape between releases. D'angelo's sound is always rooted in 70's funk /soul  and gospel but he also taps into all the genres of African Americans. (Funk, Jazz, Gospel, Hip Hop, Soul/R&B, Blues and Rock and Roll). Even though it is "retro sounding", it doesn't sound old. The album for the most part is fairly quiet, laid back. free sounding and sounds if he his glad to be making music again.   It taps into the blues vibe of "it's not the notes you play, but what's in between them." Much of the album has political undertones and coincides with the recent happenings of Eric Gardner and the Ferguson riots. I absolutely love the backing band on this album   Some of the performers are James Gadson on drums (One of the most recorded drummers in R&B- working with such artists as Beck, Charles Wright, Herbie Hancock,Marvin Gaye, Blue Mitchell, Lalo Shifrin, BB King, Albert King, Freddie King, Bill Withers, Temptations, Quincy Jones,Paul McCartney  and many many others), Kendra Foster from  P funk, Pino Palladino on bass (whom is regarded by many as one of the best bass players ever, playing with such artists as Peter Gabriel, Eric Clapton, BB King, Erykah Badu, Common, The Who, Nine inch Nails, Jeff Beck, Herbie Hancock,Adele,Brian Eno, Steve Gadd,The Herbaliser, Derek Trucks, David Gilmour, Chaka Khan,, Steve Luthaker, and many many others), Q-Tip and Questlove. This album has a musicianship vibe all over it..I really dig all the experimental sounds and samples throughout the album. I also really enjoyed the mixdown sound of the drums and bass. Keeping with the 70's vibe, "Black Messiah" is recorded in analog using tape and and emphasis on vintage instruments.Questlove has stated that this album is the black version of the Beach Boys's "Smile"

Born Micheal Eugene Archer in Richmond, V.A. of a Pentecostal preacher father. Gospel is ever present in all of D'Angelo's music. D'angelo is mostly recognized for his 90's hit song and video "Untitled/ How Does it feel".D' Angelo also plays drums, bass,and keyboards. Throughout D'Angelo's life, he has seen his fair share of ups and downs . Hopefully he will continue to create great music without such long pauses in between and he stays on the up swing. Rhett Taylor
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"Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album," reads the album introduction by D'Angelo. "Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We Should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

"Its about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape where these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader."- D'Angelo

The song above is "The Door"

Soma Fm review

                                              SomaFM is a listener-supported, commercial-free^[1] Internet-only streaming music station, which started broadcasting out of founder Rusty Hodge's basement garage in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. SomaFM broadcasts electronic music, indie rock and lounge music, among other genres. SomaFM began as a micro-power radio station broadcast at the Burning Man festival in 1999..... 
Some of the Stations-

Station	Genre	Year Added
Groove Salad	Downtempo/chillout	2000
Drone Zone	Drone	2000
Secret Agent	Lounge/jazz with a 1960's spy theme	2000
cliqhop idm	Intelligent dance music	2002
Indie Pop Rocks	Indie pop/indie rock	2002
Beat Blender	House/downtempo/chillout	2002
Sonic Universe	Modern jazz/fringes of jazz/nordic jazz	2008
Lush	Trip hop/downtempo	2009
Digitalis	Self produced indie rock and electronic music	2009
Space Station Soma	Ambient space music	2009
Illinois Street Lounge	Lounge	2009
Boot Liquor	Americana	2009
The Trip	Classic trance/progressive trance. Formerly known as "Tag's Trance Trip"	2009
Doomed	Industrial/dark ambient	2009
Mission Control	Ambient music mixed with the sounds of NASA's mission broadcasts and live shuttle coverage	2009
PopTron	Electropop/dance rock	2009
Covers	Cover songs	2009
Suburbs of Goa	Desi/Arabic-influenced worldbeat	2009
Underground 80s	Early 80s British synthpop and new wave	2010
BAGeL Radio	Alternative rock/post-punk/indie rock/noise pop. Formerly known as "480 Minutes".	2011
South by Soma	Music by artists from the SXSW Festival	2012
SF 10–33	Ambient music mixed with the sounds of San Francisco public safety radio traffic	2012
Black Rock FM	The prototype broadcast for 102.3FM in Black Rock City for the 2012 Burning Man Festival	2012
Dub Step Beyond	Dubstep, dub, and other bass driven electronic music	2012
Folk Forward	Indie folk, alternate folk, and the occasional folk classics	2013
Earwaves	Early electronic music/avant-garde music/computer music	2013
Iceland Airwaves	Music by artists from the Iceland Airwaves festival	2013
DEF CON Radio	Music from DEF CON's chill room, provided by SomaFM	2013
Seven Inch Soul	Classic soul music	2014
Christmas Rocks	Christmas themed indie/alternative rock	Seasonal
Xmas in Frisco	Eclectic Christmas themed music	Seasonal
Christmas Lounge	Christmas themed lounge music	Seasonal

(Wikipedia)

Accessible through most wireless music players

Website: somafm.com - There are links below each channel's description to stream in a variety of file formats and bit rates. Choices include AAC at 128k, aacPlus at 64k and 32k, MP3 at 128k, and Windows Media at 128k and 32k. There's also pop-up player. As a rule, the higher the bit rate, the better the sound quality, though you may find the lower-bit-rate streams to be more reliable.

Visit somafm.com/mobile to learn how to tune in SomaFM stations on a variety of mobile devices. I use the TuneIn Radio app to play SomaFM stations on my iPhone. (Crutchfield)

This is my first random music service site that I am reviewing (Link to Site-).Soma Fm. The stations on here are great. There are as of now around 30 channels and SomaFm has a mobile app as well.. For those that enjoy having multiple sources to listen to music from, Soma Fm is a great addition. Boot Liquor is one of my favorite americana/ American roots stations out there, Earwaves is another favorite. There truly isn't one bad one in the bunch.  Rhett Taylor

Gov't Mule featuring John Scofield- "Sco Mule" 2 CD's- 2015

semi updated Youtube Channel 282 songs

The Schiznit Channel

Valerie June- Pushin' Against a Stone -2013

                                                  

I just randomly picked an album out of my collection that I have not heard yet. This album is great. It isn't amazing but it sure is wonderful. I really like her and can't wait to hear her other stuff. Valerie June is a Tennessee native who musically is in love with all aspects of southern american roots music ( gospel, blues, country, folk, soul/r&b, americana ,appalachian,  etc). She plays guitar and ukulele, sings  and writes music with a feeling that she would like for the listener to take a ride with her briefly visiting  different styles of music all tied into the southern roots vein. .Released in 2013, not  one song on this album is bad and I would say this is one of those albums that works best listening to the entire album. The songs by themselves are great also. I put all of them on my playlist minus one. That means I like it. I have countless performers on my playlist that I only put on one song of theirs.  Performing on the album as well is Dan Auerbach from the Black Keys, Booker T. Jones from Booker T. and the M.G.'s, Jimbo Mathis from the Squirrel Nut Zippers and the South Memphis String Band, Richard Swift and many others. One of things  I really enjoyed was the way the album is engineered from full sound to stark and minimal.  This is one album that I'm sure I will enjoy it more and more each time I hear it. I'm pleased with my random choice.  The video above is the title track song. Rhett Taylor