Anthony David (or as I like to call him, Acey Ducey) has managed to effortlessly destroy three of my most basic assumptions within the span of an eight-year career and an hour-and-a-half of conversation. When the Savannah-bred singer/songwriter and I sat down at Atlanta’s Java-o-logy café one morning, I didn’t know too much about [...]
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It’s never a good sign when an interview starts with, “Fuck him.” But when I asked Les McCann to talk about Eugene McDaniels that’s just what I got. Thankfully, a half second later he admitted: “Naaaw… I love him dearly.” What’s not to love dearly about Gene McDaniels? He’s from [...]
Carlos Nino is a man of two very different natures. On one hand, he is very much the kind of guy who talks about vibrations, cooperatives, and describes music that touches him as magical. But whereas many of the idealists he shares a vocabulary with fall short when it comes to execution, there [...]
I approach producer albums like blind dates. Sure, there’s a chance they’ll be good, but you probably shouldn’t hold your breath. The problem is that most producers fail to take control of their own projects. Instead of creating music and picking the appropriate contributors to round it out, most producers assemble an [...]
It almost seems she was destined for stardom. Between her family’s rich musical heritage, her continuous musical training, and her unique name, Algebra Blessett’s divine path to artistry was all but decided prior to her birth. “My first beginning with music was in the womb,” Algebra reveals. “My mother was a musician [...]
Alright, people, let’s say it together: SA-RA (pronounced sah rah). If you haven’t been under a rock for the past few months, you’ve probably heard the buzz about the NY/LA threesome, whose debut album, Set-Ups and Justifications, will soon drop, courtesy of Kanye West’s label, G.O.O.D Music. If you have been under a [...]
In London they call her “the queen of rare groove.” In Miami, Henry Stone of TK Records calls her “one of the greatest soul singers of our time.” But back in Pensecola, Florida, her kids call her “mama” and her grandson calls her “grandmama.” You see, Gwen McCrae was born and raised [...]
Have you ever waited on something so long that you forgot you were waiting? Have you ever continued to hope for something even when the vast majority of the evidence indicates it’s not happening? Have you ever just blindly believed in something that you can’t see? Yeah, let’s do some of that [...]
Sometimes it’s the people in the background of a conversation that have the most interesting things to say. It recently happened to me, while I was talking to Spinna’s longtime friend Joc Max. A tiny voice interrupted us and murmured something I couldn’t make out. “That’s right,” Joc answered in his best [...]
Maybe Detroit wasn’t the best place to be in the ‘60s. They had a legendary wall built between a black and white neighborhood, a densely over-populated downtown, some extremely racist banking practices, and a notoriously violent police department. Combine that with the “pins and needles” feel of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam [...]
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