Note: The originally sourced video is no longer available, however, we did find a replacement here: Kamali Kasumu released the single Gone back in June 2012, but when he released his long-player, Planet Kasumu a year later, Gone was included. Singer, song-writer Kamali Kasumu weaves today’s pop sensibility with modern R&B and Soul to conjure up a sound that is very pleasing indeed. Kamali has some wonderful pipes to reproduce those sounds with, too, as evidenced here. Kamali is a Nigerian native who now resides in…
Read MoreIt’s Mr. Peabody’s ‘Way Back’ machine for music. The Pepper Pots make R&B and Soul that moves and rocks in a way that was popular in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s and is still more than relevant today. Enter, Good Times from the bands 2013 released long player, We Must Fight. The Pepper Pots have been playing 60’s and 70’s flavored R&B and Soul tinged pop music in their native Spain since 2004. They’ve just recently announced that they will be attending…
Read MoreI liked UK songwriter, performer, Jon Kenzie on first listen to Sing A Little Higher from the October 2013 released long-player by the same name. Then I listened to Coming Around, the second track from the LP, and was completely blown away. Kenzie performs folk, pop, soul, blues, in what would have to be called a mixer; Sometimes the songs are purely one style and sometimes they combine multiple styles together. It provides for a great sound, and the mostly acoustic…
Read MoreAstute readers of this blog will recognize Michael Kiwanuka from the post back in June of 2012 for I’m Getting Ready. That track also landed him in the list for Best Of Vodka 2012, which lists in no particular order some of the finest tracks of 2012’s posts. From that prayerful touching video over a year ago, to this one from November 2012, Michael Kiwanuka continues to inspire with his music. Always Waiting is a musical story about the devastating affects of Alzheimer…
Read MoreRhythm and blues, soul, and five Caucasian’s doesn’t seem to add up, but with St. Paul and The Broken Bones from Birmingham, Alabama, there’s no doubt that they have the chops to pull it off. Case in point is Call Me (video released July 2013). That soul growl is from singer, Paul Janeway with instruments picked up by Jesse Phillips, Andrew Lee, Allen Branstetter, Browan Lollar and Ben Griner. There’s not an untalented bone in any of their…
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