Saturday, October 29, 2011

THE EAST END / THE EAST SIDE / VANCOUVER EAST / HASTINGS STREET EAST - - BRAND NEW CHUBBY HAYES & DJZigZag WALKIN' #THREE PODCASTED ! ! !


FROM THE OPENING STRAINS OF
ELMORE JAMES' GEETAR
and THE SOUNDS OF 'DUST MY BLUES'
YOU KNOW YOU ARE BACK IN THE DAY IN EAST VAN
with CHUBBY & ZIGZAG and THEY ARE BUSY TALKING 'BOUT THEIR LOVE OF
NEW WORLD AFRICAN MUSIC.

POSTED NOW ON WAGRadio
'THE EAST END WALKIN' TOUR
(IS FUN) 2011 NUMBER THREE!'

featuring these gems . . .
"Make Up Your Mind" - EDDIE FLOYD
"Feel So Bad" - LITTLE MILTON
"Sack Of Woe" - RAY BRYANT
"Let Me Down Easy" - ALVIN ROBINSON
"There's Something On Your Mind" - BABY RAY


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Friday, October 28, 2011

OH, OH, WE GOT ANOTHER GREAT FILM TO LOOK FORWARD TO . . . "EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART: THE JOHNNY OTIS STORY" - This should be a winner ! !



QUOTING FROM THE PRESS RELEASE:
THIS FILM IS A PERSONAL and MUSICAL BIOGRAPHY OF JOHNNY OTIS, THE MUSICIAN, BANDLEADER, PRODUCER AND SONGWRITER WHO IS OFTEN CALLED "The Godfather of Rhythm 'n' Blues'.
BUT IT IS MORE THAN THE BIOGRAPHY OF ONE MAN, JUST AS THE STORY OF R&B IS ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN MUSIC. JOHNNY'S ODYSSEY THROUGH THE WORLD OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC IN THE 20th CENTURY IS A WINDOW INTO THE ARENAS OF RACE AND CULTURE THAT HAVE DEFINED AND TRANSFORMED CONTEMPORARY AMERICA - AND, IN TURN, HAVE TOUCHED THE WHOLE WORLD.

THE PASSION AND THE JOURNEY ON WHICH IT HAS TAKEN JOHNNY OTIS (real name - John Veliotis) ARE AT THE CENTRE OF 'EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART' - FROM THE SWING ERA, TO R'N'B AND THE RISE OF ROCK 'N' ROLL - MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY OF MUSIC REFLECTED THROUGH THE PRISM OF A SINGULAR LIFE.

Maybe we'll have to travel down to Seattle, WA to see this one.


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Thursday, October 27, 2011

AUTUMN FYAH-PLACE & CURL UP WIT'A GOOD BOOK - JUST FINISHING 'CHITLIN' CIRCUIT' and startin' FARLEY'S 'SOUL O'THE MAN' *clik here* BOBBY "BLUE" BLAND


Excerpt from Preston Lauterbach's 'Chittlin' Circuit':
"(Rhythm 'n' Blues band leader Lucky Millinder) stood up for his people. Back in 1940 Down Beat magazine predicted that Negro orchestras were on their way out, which provoked a passionate response from Lucky in an Amsterdam News (black-American newspaper) editorial. "Can Down Beat tell us what hit swing song past or hit swing arrangement the white bands have featured that colored bandsmen or arrangers haven't had something to do with?" he wrote. "I get sick and tired of hearing would-be white critics on colored music telling us how bad colored music is, and yet praising white bands to the skies for playing the Negro's creations."

And here's something I just read when I randomly flipped open Charles Farley's University Press of Mississippi tome
'Soul Of The Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland:
"Meanwhile, (Duke Records president) Don Robey was beginning to recognize the value of integration in the record industry. In February 1957 Billboard discontinued its 'Rhythm-Blues Notes' column and replaced it with a column called 'On the Beat.' Writer Gary Kramer offered this rationale: "No abstract categories prevent the teenager today from buying records by Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Carl Perkins or Little Richard at one and the same time. The trade, therefore, must revise, and perhaps abandon, some of the old boundary lines."

AS WE SAY, SOME GREAT AUTUMN READING WHILST CURLED UP BY THE STOVE, FIREPLACE or A LARGE DOG.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011

DOES THIS THING EVER GROW ON YA - "MAGIC HAPPEN" by KINDRED THE FAMILY SOUL from GROOVIN' BLUE 11 - 08 on SHANACHIE ! ! SWEET SOUL MUSIC . . .



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HOLD ONTA' Y'ALL'S COAT-TAILS * * WE GOT LIGHTNIN' & THUNDER AND THE VOICE OF JAMECIA BENNETT w/ THE SOUNDS O' BLACKNESS - "FLY AGAIN" WAGRadio HIT!



DO YOU REMEMBER THESE MINNESOTAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM THE 1990's ?
WELL, THEY WERE EVERYBODY'S NEW WORLD AFRICAN GOSPEL FAVOURITES . . .
ANN BENNETT-NESBY WAS THE LEAD FEMALE VOCALIST BACK-IN-THAT-DAY AND SHE TO'E IT UP GIVING THE GROUP SOME WELL-DESERVED HITS. PRODUCERS JIMMY JAM & TERRY LEWIS ADDED TO THE GROUP'S PROFESSIONALISM AND A 1992 TOUR WITH GAWD-LIKE LUTHER 'THE MAN' VANDROSS SECURED THEIR PLACE IN THE HEARTS OF BLACK MUSIC FANS.
THEY BACK. THIS IS A HUGE HIT ON WAGRadio. RIGHT NOW ON GROOVIN' BLUE 11 - 09 !

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Thursday, October 20, 2011

YOU DA ONLEE 1 TA BLAME & DATS Y EYE CHANGED MY NUMBAH * * A VERY FUNNY VIDEO AND THE SONG WILL BE HOT ON GROOVIN' BLUE 11 - 10 ! ! PREDICTION ! !



WHO DA HELL IS AMX ?
THAT'S THE PROMOTION
AND
THE SONG "YOU MADE ME CHANGE MY NUMBER" Feat.
DA SNOOPERATOR DOGGY ONE is WUNNERFUL ! ! !

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JUST HEARD ONE OF THIS BROTHER'S 'LICKS' ON A DODGE TRUCK COMMERCIAL WITH A COWBOY THEME TO IT - HA HA ! ! HE STILL AROUND - "KING" JOHN LEE HOOKER -


WHETHER YOU'RE WATCHIN' A PUNK BAND ON LATE NITE T.V. OR LISSENIN' TO TRUCK COMMERCIALS ON ROCK RADIO STATIONS or VIAGRA/CIALIS SPOTS ON TELEVISION - YOU GONNA HEAR HIS MUSIC RE-PLAYED, RE-TOOLED and RE- LIGIOUSLY RE-WORKED.
BUT ALL WE NEW WORLD AFRICAN MUSIC FANS GOTTA RE-MEMBER IS . . . HE'S ONE OF THE ORIGINAL CHICAGO GUT-BUCKET KINGS AND . . .
JOHN LEE HOOKER
STILL RULES MUSIC TODAY ! ! !

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

AS DJZigZag SEZ, "AIN'T IT GREAT THAT SAADIQ IS FAITHFUL TO THE ROOTS OF DEETROIT!" - HERE'S HIS LATEST - LIKE HE'S IN THAT GORDY BASEMENT STUDIO ! !


THIS YOUNG BROTHER MUST WAKE UP HEARING MOTOWN DRUMS IN HIS BRAIN and EVEN THO' CHARLES RAY WIGGINS (better known as THE SAADIQUERATOR) IS QUOTIN' LEON WARE (who had his big hits on ELEKTRA) IN THIS HIS LATEST WONDERFULLY FUNKIFIED RELEASE "Movin' Down The Line" . . . RAPHAEL IS TRUE TO THE MOTA' CITEE cuz YA GOTTA REMEMBER THAT LEON WAS BORN IN DETROIT and HAD HIS FIRST SUCCESS WITH AN ISLEY BROS. RECORD ON TAMLA IN 1967
(yes, the first year Groovin' Blue was on the air / CKLG-FM).


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THIS IS ONE OF THE HAWTEST RECORDS ON WAGRadio ! ! MR. TYRESE GIBSON on VOLTRON Recordz AND "STAY" - GOIN' THAT XTRA MILE TA MAKE US SMILE ! !



WE'RE POSTIN' THIS AND ONE MILLION SIXTEEN THOUSAND PEEPS HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE US ! !
THE BROTHER TYRESE IS HOT N' HOT AGAIN ! !
WHAT A GREAT RECORD THIS IS - SOFT WHEN IT GOTTA BE SOFT AND
HARD and SOULFUL WHEN IT GOTTA BE THAT WAY ! !
SING IT SON ! !

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GETTIN' UP EARLY IN THE A.M. AND MASHIN' UP ANOTHER LAVA MOLTEN TSUNAMI OF NEW WORLD AFRICAN MUSIC IN WAGRadio's STUDIO "B"

WE ARE FEELIN' A LIL' BIT MISCHIEVOUS HERE AT WAGRadio WHEN WE TELL ALL Y'ALL THAT WE FEEL IT WON'T BE THE HUGE-LY ANTICIPATED TSUNAMANIACAL WAVE FROM THE LAND OF WA THAT WILL CARRY US TO THE HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS BUT RATHER THE CREEPING HOT BUTTERED LAVA LAVA POURING DOWN FROM THE GAWD-AWFUL LARGE QUEEN OF THE MOUNTAINS - THE BEAUTIFUL Ms. MOUNT BAKER (seen here in her morning foggish splendour from the large picture window in Studio 'B').
WHEW !
THIS IS ALL IN AID OF TELLING YOU WE WORKIN' ON
GROOVIN' BLUE 11 - 10 ! !

Photo: Dr. Edward McRoberts

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Friday, October 7, 2011

* * * BOUNTIFUL WAGRadio * * * PODCASTS G. B. 11-09 ! ! ** 'GIVIN' THANKS - SOUL DINNER' WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS * * * GROOVIN' BLUE 11 - 09 ! ! !



HEADING INTO THE AUTUMN SEASON AND WAGRadio PRESENTS A BRAND NEW
GROOVIN' BLUE 11 - 09 ! !

THIS SHOW IS FILLED WITH CONTEMPORARY MUSIC and SEEMS TO PARTICULARLY SHOWCASE ARTISTS IN THE NU-SOUL GENRE !

In this issue . . .
TASHA TAYLOR (Johnnie's daughter), LEDISI with JAHEIM, THE SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS, RAPHAEL SAADIQ, CEE LO GREEN and the phenominally good NEW WORLD AFRICAN QUARTET HAMILTON PARK lead the way.
ONLY JAMES BROWN with an instrumental from 1968 SEEMS TO UPHOLD THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE BRETHREN FROM THE PAST.
JAM-ROCK STARS ROMAIN VIRGO and MAVADO join with SUPERSTARS-TO-BE KENDRICK LAMAR, FONZWORTH BENTLEY and COBRA STARSHIP feat. SABI to fill out the GB 11-09 LINE UP.

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