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My dear friend, Charles Parker Newton, is the one with the beard.
Apparently this got on Fox last night. Twenty-four thousand hits in fifteen days.
Cooking vittles after relaxing in the sun down at the abandoned Adams School. Music is essential for any summer get-down and in order to spread the love, I present these two fresh picks.
Siah & Yeshua dapoED
The Visualz EP
Physical angelic beings Siah and Yeshua dapoED spin a classic hip-hop album from the streets of New York circa 1996. Pavement, sun, and enlightened rhyming to bring you higher than you ever been. Just listen.
Yeshua and Siah let you know who you’re seeing and where they’re going to take you.
Escaping gravity with a lyrical flow.
Lee Fields & the Expressions
My World
Now this is a new one.
To quote Stones Throw Records: “ Lee Fields is a bona-fide, 100%, unadulterated, pure, gut-bucket soul singer.” The legendary 70′s soul prince worked for four years together with Leon Mitchels (!) and a number of other notable funk artists to create My World which is the perfect fusion of 70′s summer soul and classic hip-hop beats that will make anyone start nodding their heads and tapping the beat.
The album itself is smooth ear candy, a sampler’s dream. Even without Lee Fields I would have bought this album and the instrumental tracks attest to that. But Mr. Fields is what makes this album. He croons, shouts, and busts his heart over 11 tracks. When he sings about love coming and going you can’t help but agree. When he cries out that he wants his baby to stay you realize that there’s nothing more important in the bewildering infinitude of life than making sweet love tonight.
Much like Issac Hayes before him, if Lee Fields told you to walk on by, you would.
Buy this album, you will not be disappointed.
Lee Fields sings one for the ladies, and my mind is filled with summer.
