Feature: One Track Mind
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One Track Mind: Bugge Wesseltoft - "Change"— Wesseltoft's conception for "Change" is a wonderful blend of sounds from four decades underpinned by a dry, cool beat.
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One Track Mind: John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio "Traneing In"— You don't have to be a jazz snob to enjoy Coltrane when he's playing a blues jam like "Traneing In."
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One Track Mind: Charles Earland - "Happy 'Cause I'm Goin' Home"— Charles Earland tackles a happy Chicago tune that was sadly part of trumpet great Lee Morgan's last recorded performances.
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One Track Mind: Gov't Mule "Perfect Shelter"— Nothing like some good, funked-up hard rock from The Mule to get your weekend kick-started.
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One Track Mind: Ellery Eskelin/Andrea Parkins/Jim Black - "43 RPM"— Chicks who play whack jazz on accordion are hawt.
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One Track Of The Year: the subdudes - "Poor Man's Paradise"— A good song should make you feel good. More than any other song I've heard this year, this one does.
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One Track Mind: Kent DuChaine "Marilyn"— Overlooked blues troubadour Kent DuChaine makes a rip-roaring tribute to his vintage Cadillac.
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One Track Mind: Dionne Farris "I Know" — I don't know why Farris didn't give us an encore to "I Know."
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One Track Mind: Rod Stewart "Every Picture Tells A Story"— The anthem of Rod Stewart when he was a Young Turk.
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One Track Mind: Cameo "Love You Anyway"— Mid-tempo, old-school funk married to George Benson-style scatting? I'm there!
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One Track Mind: Randy Newman "Rednecks" — Newman gives seperate but equal treatment to Northerners and Southerners alike.
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One Track Mind: Les Dudek "Old Judge Jones"— A forgotten, tasty slice of mid-seventies album rock.
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One Track Mind: Steely Dan - "Babylon Sisters"— Only one band sings about Santa Ana winds and drinking kirshwasser from a shell on the same song.
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One Track Mind: Stevie Wonder "That Girl" — This song has claimed a permanent spot in my mind's record rotation. Which is quite alright.
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One Track Mind: Richard & Linda Thompson "Dimming Of The Day"— Quiet majesty from one of rock's best husband-and-wife duos.
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One Track Mind: Tom Cora "Hallelujah Anyway"— Tom Cora's gumption was decidedly not in limbo for "Hallelujah Anyway."
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One Track Mind: Bruford Levin Upper Extremities "Cracking The Midnight Glass" — The devil's "Kashmir."
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One Track Mind: Chris Rea "Texas" — Chris Rea has a one track mind when it comes to "Texas."
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One Track Mind: The Meters - "Just Kissed My Baby"— How about a little funk for your Friday?
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One Track Mind: Robert Cray "Midnight Stroll"— Cray has the top down and Howlin' Wolf on the radio.
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One Track Mind: Aaron Neville - "Louisiana 1927"— A bewitching 1974 song about a human tragedy that occured eighty years ago became relevant again just two years ago this week.
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One Track Mind: Monte Montgomery "When Will I" — Another guitar slinger from Austin, Texas? Montgomery's got a delightfully different twist, though.
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One Track Mind: Ornette Coleman - "Voice Poetry"— Ornette's "Voice Poetry" will have you dancing in your head.
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One Track Mind: Scorch Trio - "Kjøle Høle" — The band that calls itself "Scorch Trio" is a sublime example of truth in advertising.
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One Track Mind: Wayne Shorter - "Tom Thumb" — Right at the end of Shorter's sixties winning streak comes a song that's one of his best of that fruitful period.
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One Track Mind: Charlie Musselwhite - "Church Is Out"— Charlie Musselwhite preaches the blues perhaps better than any other harp player out there today; "Church Is Out" is his gospel.
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One Track Mind: The Beatles "Hey Bulldog" — The song that marked the end of the fun-lovin' era Beatles.
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One Track Mind: Jamiroquai "Seven Days In Sunny June" — Jay Kay channels an Isley Brothers vibe for this summer-themed love lament.
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One Track Mind: The Isley Brothers - "Summer Breeze" — Summer breeze, makes me feel fine. Especially when the Isleys are playing it.
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One Track Mind: Timbuk 3 - "National Holiday" — Oh boy, hey hey, it's Fourth of July with Pat and Barbara K.
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One Track Mind: Ben Folds Five "Jane"— Folds gets in touch with his sensitive-songwriter side.
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One Track Mind: Keith Jarrett Trio - “Autumn Leaves”— It doesn't matter if a standard has been covered to death if it's the Keith Jarrett Trio who's doing the covering.
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One Track Mind: Aerosmith - "Seasons Of Wither"— Steve Tyler's favorite Aerosmith song was a big step forward in the band's evolution.
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One Track Mind: Mushroom - "Compared To What" — Leave it to the trippy troupe called Mushroom to give this 1969 soul-jazz classic a proper treatment.
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One Track Mind: Porcupine Tree "Fear Of A Blank Planet"— The opening salvo from the epic album of the same name, "Fear Of A Blank Planet" is impressive both lyrically and melodically.
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One Track Mind: Caspar Brötzmann - "Massaker"— Caspar uses a different weapon than his dad, but on "Massaker," his aim is no less deadly.
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One Track Mind: David Torn "Structural Functions Of Prezens" — Other musicians pay lip service to "thinking outside the box;" Torn is nowhere near that damned box.
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One Track Mind: Funkadelic "Maggot Brain"— George Clinton told his guitarist Eddie Hazel to "play like your momma had just died." The pep talk worked to perfection.
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One Track Mind: Jamiroquai - "Just Another Story" — Prog aspirations make "Just Another Story" not just another dance funk number.
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One Track Mind: Allan Holdsworth "The Drums Were Yellow"— A virtuoso salutes another virtuoso in virtuosic fashion.
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One Track Mind: Chicago - "A Hit By Varèse"— For Bobby Lamm, Edgar Varèse was the inspiration.
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One Track Mind: Anders Osborne - "Boxes, Bills and Pain"— Anders Osbourne didn't come from the Mississippi Delta or New Orleans; he just sounds like he does.
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One Track Mind: Jaco Pastorius Big Band - "Barbary Coast"— Jaco's pre-fame band brings out the best out of a song he later wrote for his better-known band.
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One Track Mind: Larry Young - "The Moontrane"— Larry Young's democratic approach on his masterpiece Unity brought forth a teenaged trumpeter's remarkable composition.
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One Track Mind: McCoy Tyner - "Once I Loved"— Sublime, testosterone-driven acoustic trio jazz. Nobody does it better than McCoy Tyner.
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One Track Mind: Henry Threadgill - "I Can't Wait To Get Home"— Calypso funk meets whack jazz in a song written by a rapper's dad. Play this at your next party.
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One Track Mind: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole "Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World"— Hawaiian legend Iz Kamakawiwo'ole turns two, well-worn classic American tunes into one sublime Hawaiian lullaby.
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One Track Mind: Livingston Taylor - "Grandma's Hands"— James Taylor isn't the only one in his family who can make great covers.
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One Track Mind: Nazz - "Open My Eyes"— Even when Rundgren was Todd The Mod, he was still a pop god.
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One Track Mind: U2/Green Day - "The Saints Are Coming"— Nick Deriso provides a most personal account of U2 and Green Day's Crescent City salute on the day the Saints were coming back home.
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One Track Mind: Michael Brecker - "Dogs In The Wine Shop"— Turns out I'm not quite done getting over Michael Brecker's death, after all.
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One Track Mind: Lindsey Buckingham - "Not Too Late"— Buckingham wonders what happened to his solo career, while making another solo record worthy of acclaim.
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One Track Mind: Michael McDonald - "Tuesday Heartbreak"— Mike McDonald tackles an underappreciated song from Stevie Wonder's golden era and nearly topples the original.
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One Track Mind: Nick Cave - "The Lyre of Orpheus"— Is Nick Cave a more sinister version of Tom Waits with an Australian accent? On songs like "The Lyre of Orpheus", it sure seems so.
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One Track Mind: Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra "Gazzelloni"— Who would dare mess with the ghost of Eric Dolphy? Otomo Yoshihide, for one, ain't scared.
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One Track Mind: Ween - "Gabrielle"— The master charlatans of rock create the finest song Thin Lizzy never recorded.
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One Track Mind: Guy Clark - "Stuff That Works"— Careful craftsmanship is the hallmark of Guy Clark's songs. That's why for even his lesser-known tunes such as this one, his stuff works.
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One Track Mind: Spock's Beard - "South Side Of The Sky"— Neo prog rockers Spock's Beard covers a song by the band who inspired their sound...and, Yes, it's a good one.
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One Track Mind: Bonnie Raitt - "Give It Up Or Let Me Go"— Raitt's own "Give It Up Or Let Me Go" would have been cool in 1920 but will still be cool in 2020.
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Blues Bash Music Review: Corey Harris - "Basehead"— Corey Harris' "Basehead" is a laid-back denunciation of hard drugs from the front porch of a Mississippi Delta home.
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Blues Bash Music Review: North Mississippi Allstars' "51 Phantom"— The Allstars' leadoff title track to their second release is like a gateway drug to the blues.
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One Track Mind: Ray Charles - "Night Time Is the Right Time" (Live, 1958)— "Night Time" is proof that the genius of Ray Charles shone on the bandstand just as it did in a more sterile setting.
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One Track Mind: Papa Mali and the Instagators - "Man Of Many Words"— If you're not at least swaying to this, have the doctor check you out for a lost sense of rhythm.
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One Track Mind: Nels Cline's "Compulsion"— Cranial jazz that you can headbang to... how cool is that?
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One Track Mind: Joe Lovano - "Central Park West" (1991)— He states the lovely theme at the start, and then states it again in a slightly improvisational manner.
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One Track Mind: Pat Martino "Sunny" (1972)— Pat Martino and his guitar shows what they can do with a run of the mill 60s pop standard.
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One Track Mind: Boz Scaggs/Duane Allman "Loan Me A Dime" (1969)— "One Track Mind" is a weekly drool over a single song selected on a whim.
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