This Ash Wednesday marks Irma Thomas' 69th birthday. Here's the Soul Queen of New Orleans singing "You Can Have My Husband" with B.B. King. Originally recorded in 1960, it still rocks today.
Happy Birthday Irma!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Oh When the Sun Begins to Shine
It's four days after the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl, and I'm still feeling the afterglow.
This video by documentary filmmakers Rebecca and Jason Ferris was shot on Magazine Street in New Orleans just moments after the Saints won the Super Bowl and the sums up the feeling of Saints fans world over.
It's set to Fats Domino's version of "Oh When the Saints," an old gospel hymn that is traditionally sung at jazz funerals. As the procession of mourners winds its way to the church the song is played as a dirge. After the body has been buried and is deceased safe in the hands of the lord, "Oh When the Saints" picks up tempo and leads a "second line" procession of dancing and joy. "Second line" refers to the second line of people (usually strangers) who follow the actual funeral party.
"Oh When the Saints" has become synonymous with the New Orleans Saints. The long suffering team has never made it to the Super Bowl and was generally regarded as the laughing stock of the NFL. Its home, the Superdome, became the fated and decrepit refuge for those trapped by Hurricane Katrina.
Now, 43 years after the team's inception and 4 1/2 years post-Katrina the Saints are world champions and the second line has cause to celebrate.
We've died and gone to heaven.
"Oh, how I want to be in that number,
when the saints go marching in."
It's four days after the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl, and I'm still feeling the afterglow.
This video by documentary filmmakers Rebecca and Jason Ferris was shot on Magazine Street in New Orleans just moments after the Saints won the Super Bowl and the sums up the feeling of Saints fans world over.
It's set to Fats Domino's version of "Oh When the Saints," an old gospel hymn that is traditionally sung at jazz funerals. As the procession of mourners winds its way to the church the song is played as a dirge. After the body has been buried and is deceased safe in the hands of the lord, "Oh When the Saints" picks up tempo and leads a "second line" procession of dancing and joy. "Second line" refers to the second line of people (usually strangers) who follow the actual funeral party.
"Oh When the Saints" has become synonymous with the New Orleans Saints. The long suffering team has never made it to the Super Bowl and was generally regarded as the laughing stock of the NFL. Its home, the Superdome, became the fated and decrepit refuge for those trapped by Hurricane Katrina.
Now, 43 years after the team's inception and 4 1/2 years post-Katrina the Saints are world champions and the second line has cause to celebrate.
We've died and gone to heaven.
"Oh, how I want to be in that number,
when the saints go marching in."
Saints Superbowl Victory Celebration from Cottage Films on Vimeo.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Killing it with Galactic
There are songs out there that kill me when I hear them. I have to listen over and over...and the song keeps sounding better and better. Galactic's cut from their new album YA-KA-MAY is one of them. It features the Soul Queen of New Orleans Irma Thomas. This is Galactic's second collaborative album, the first being From the Corner to the Block, which was loaded with hip-hop artists. It had an amazing sound, and YA-KA-MAY (from the 2 tracks I've heard) proves to be an even more exciting mixing old with new.
YA-KA-MAY is set to be released Feb 9, 2010 on Anti Records. The album features established legends such as the Rebirth Brass Band, Irma Thomas, Big Chief Bo Dollis, Allen Toussaint and Walter "Wolfman" Washington with younger artists like Trombone Shorty and Corey Henry, John Boutté, Josh Cohen and Scully, and Glen David Andrews, as well as groundbreaking new "Bounce" artists like Cheeky Blakk, Big Freedia, Katey Red, and Sissy Nobby.
Find out more about Galactic at www.galacticfunk.com.
Turn it up!
YA-KA-MAY is set to be released Feb 9, 2010 on Anti Records. The album features established legends such as the Rebirth Brass Band, Irma Thomas, Big Chief Bo Dollis, Allen Toussaint and Walter "Wolfman" Washington with younger artists like Trombone Shorty and Corey Henry, John Boutté, Josh Cohen and Scully, and Glen David Andrews, as well as groundbreaking new "Bounce" artists like Cheeky Blakk, Big Freedia, Katey Red, and Sissy Nobby.
Find out more about Galactic at www.galacticfunk.com.
Turn it up!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Funky Trunk
I have had the pleasure of hosting Funky Trunk on Utah Free Media, www.utahfm.org since the station's inception in May 2008. Look for music posts on funk, blues, R&B, soul and anything groovy.
I've got a trunk full of funk, and I'm happy to share with you.
Yeah you rite.
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