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Thursday, February 08, 2007
FIRE (SHE NEED WATER)
Wayne McGhie
Wayne McGhie & The Sounds of Joy
Birchmont : 1970/Light in The Attic : 2006
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WADE IN THE WATER
THE GRAHAM BOND ORGANization
Ascot : 1965
Available on: Sound of 65/There's a Bond Between Us
Beat Goes On : 1999
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Hey, baby. Would you like to make a deal?
Last week we looked at Jamaicans playing soul music in Toronto, and different variants on "Wade In the Water". This week, two late additions. Wayne McGhie is the singer you'll hear on the songs by Jo-Jo & The Fugitives, below. Please scroll down and download those songs right now; they will surprise you by being so very excellent and exciting.
Welcome back. "Fire" is a McGhie original and, what a song. It's a bit incoherent until you realize that you, too, know exactly what that kind of relationship is like. But then, the fact that it is a relationship song sounds like the least of McGhie's worries. Download this song, too - it's at least as good as "Chips, Chicken, Banana Split," and that's praise from a deep place. Moistworks would like to thank the good folks at Light in The Attic records for bringing these songs to our enthusiastic attention.
THE GRAHAM BOND ORGANization was one of the earlier, bluesier Brit bands - they broke up when Graham Bond's RHYTHMsection up and formed Cream. Not so very well known these days, Bond was once voted "Britain's New Jazz Star" (that, according to this website). But here's Bond's take on the blues of today: "We are playing the blues of today," he said. "I can get away with playing practically anything." Somewhat coincidentally, Bond threw himself under a train the year b/f Eric Clapton (I kid you not, he really did) release/d an epic reworking of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot."
So much for the past, and on to the soul covers of Bob Dylan tunes:
SHE BELONGS TO ME
Billy Preston
That's The Way God Planned It
EMI : 1969
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MAGGIE'S FARM
Solomon Burke
Atlantic : 1965
Available on: The Beat Goes On: Atlantic Dance Through the 50s, 60s, and 70s
Ace/Kent : 2000
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and Rolling Stone Magazine's award-winning song-of-all-time, as interpreted by Jimi Hendrix, the Wailers, and Phil Flowers & The Flower People. There's a four-minute version of the latter, but our best guess is that, whoever you are, the full nine minutes might be worth your time:
LIKE A ROLLING STONE
Jimi Hendrix
San Francisco : October 10, 1968
[Unreleased]
ROLLING STONE
The Wailers
Studio One : 1966
Available on: Bob Marley & The Wailers: One Love at Studio One 1964 - 1966
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LIKE A ROLLING STONE
Phil Flowers & The Flower People
A&M : 1970
Available on: Git Down: Funk Rarities 1967-1961
[Buy It]Labels: alex, soul
posted by Alex
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