Monthly Archives: February 2021

I feel like yesterday’s selection really reinvigorated me for this project.  Anyone who reads my posts regularly has surely noticed an encroaching apathy over the past couple of weeks that I am hoping to shake off.  I realize it’s a part of the cyclical, repetitious nature of the pandemic to have these down periods comeContinue reading “#288 – Zoy Zoy by Tal National”

I’ve been fortunate to get some great recommendations for the blog of late.  Recently, anytime my enthusiasm has been flagging, someone comes along with an album that really gets me excited again.  Today is a perfect example.  This album is a collaboration that came about when Alina Baraz and producer Galimatias sought each other outContinue reading “#287 – Urban Flora by Alina Baraz and Galimatias”

Every so often we all have one of those days where you spend all day thinking about life and what we’d really like to be doing with it.  And while its easy enough to listen to a new album while in that process, sometimes you just don’t really care about coming up with something evenContinue reading “#286 – If You Feel by Xavier Omär”

This is a great soul/r&b album that probably should have been yesterday’s selection due to its more romantic themes.  Even the title, when combined with his name, literally spells out romance.  See what he did there?  So clever.  This is another one that was featured in several best of 2020 lists.

Happy made-up-celebration-of-sentimental-consumerism day to all.  It seems to me that the year is punctuated by far too many arbitrary celebrations and this one is one of the more expendable.  At least the next one, St. Patrick’s Day, provides a good excuse for a full day of inebriation and corned beef.

Another day that shall go down in American history as one of disgrace, and perhaps a signpost on the path of decline of our democracy.  One partisan group put their party before their country and the other shamefully backed down in the face of an opportunity to clearly gain the moral high ground.  The houseContinue reading “#283 – Free by Phabo”

And now, back to Black History Month with some old school funk.  Who knows when I first heard the Brothers Johnson.  It seems like their music has always been around throughout my life, but when “Strawberry Letter 23” was featured in Jackie Brown they were truly catapulted into my awareness.  Since then, that song hasContinue reading “#282 – Right On Time by The Brothers Johnson”

I’ve been picking albums by Black artists this month in honor of Black History Month, but today I was compelled to break from that theme to acknowledge another tremendous loss to the music world, the legendary Chick Corea.  His influence cannot be overstated and, though he did live to the ripe old age of 79,Continue reading “#281 – Crystal Silence by Gary Burton and Chick Corea”

There have been quite a few incarnations of this collection of funk gods over the years.  Just last week, we listened to the first solo album by their legendary bassist, Bootsy Collins.  I have been fortunate enough to experience their fantastic live show way back when I was in college.  I drove with some friendsContinue reading “#280 – America Eats Its Young by Funkadelic”

I was about to pick an album that is a tribute to Electric Ladyland when I noticed that I could listen to a recently released live recording by the genuine article.  I was just thinking yesterday about so many of my favorite artists who I will never have the chance to include in my listeningContinue reading “#279 – Live in Maui by The Jimi Hendrix Experience”