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Perhaps I'm a bit obsessed with Macy Gray's new album. I can't walk down the street at this point without bits of it stalking me from within my own mind.
Drinking music is in a class all of its own. We know it as the music that has helped us just to make it through a situation. It has soothed the pain of a broken heart or a failed romance. You put that record of your choice on and slide on down to bluesville with a side order of dark and dreary skies.
These R&B songbirds made me squirt in my pants
Imagine having to be the voice of moderation with Jerry Lee Lewis. "Now, religious conviction does not mean anything resembling extremism."
The joy of really good music is that word about it spreads quickly and Kem's debut release Kemistry is musical proof of that.
Johnny Horton, Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones keep that party rollin'
Listen to the stalking groove at the very beginning, the lean bass notes and the few sparse guitar chords expressing the lust in the hunter's breath before Charlie pounces.
You might think of this as Robert Johnson after attending self-esteem classes.
"I Walk on Guilded Splinters," the climactic 8 minute finale of his first album, is a kind of seance to summon forth voodoo vengeance.
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