Marvin Gaye
"In a two part podcast series, scholar Andrew Hickey traces the convoluted history of a song that the label never thought would be a hit, and the lives of the many performers that shaped it": a juicy post on "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," from How the runs scored
Photo by Mark Morgan, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/markmorgantrinidad/)
🎶 If you like Motown then Kattullus has a helluva good post for you! it's about the Motown Junkies blog, where Steve Devereux is reviewing the entire Motown singles discography in sequential order and if that doesn't get your head boppin' and fingers snappin', then keep listening 🎶
Willie Mae Thornton via discogs.com
Do yourself a favor and catch Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton performing her song "Ball and Chain" from 1970 in spamandkimchi's great post about the electrifying and iconic blues, R&B, and rock foundational figure.
Alabama Shakes Brittany Howard photo via alabamashakes.com
Wowzer. Rhaomi has crafted a no-stops-left-unpulled lovefest of a megapost on Alabama Shakes and Brittany Howard.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.... Vincent Van Gogh by Nick Kenrick. (cc by)
In Ask Metafilter, I kind of look and feel like something they dragged out of the Chicago River. What are your favorite (relatively) quick-result ways to perk your whole deal up? Looks and spirits alike.
IMG_1697 by FrancescaV.com (cc by)
Recently on Mefi, people and places around the world, enchanting, mysterious and magnetic:
40 years of Shenzhen, from market village to SEZ
Breaking the Ice, rare Icelandic funk- and soul-inspired music
Central Station, stories from cattle stations in the Australian outback
Georgia Has a Coast? Photos by drone of the Georgia coast that fills his soul
Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran: looking at the lives of women during the Qajar dynasty (1796-1925)
La Scarzuola: deep in Italy, one man’s surrealist mini-city sleeps
Arundhati Roy on the politics of language and translation in India
Beyond 'Florida Man': The problem with writing about Florida
Figures In The Stars: comparing 28 different sky cultures
100 Cassettes by Marc Arsenault - Wow Cool (cc by-nd)
Some music posts lately huh?
Did you hear the newly-found clean recording of Louis Armstrong, 1929? Also check the comments for more clean recordings of stars from that era.
Get down with Indian disco and funk star Usha Uthup
A deep dive on the crazy-ass Japanese pop maestro Keiichi Suzuki of Moonriders; too much to sum up.
Up and coming Cuban jazz singer Daymé Arocena: her "vocal repertoire encompasses scatting, Afro-Cuban chanting, scratchy-throated whispers, and a deep, gusty laugh."
Backstage with Farida Khanum, the Pakistani elder stateswoman of classical ghazal poetry singing - "I don’t think she knew how popular she was with young people until I sat her down one day and placed a computer on her lap..."
Mark the passing of Papa Wemba, Congolese music legend - BlahLaLa remembers: "I picked up his music wherever I could find it, and it brought me such joy. When I came home I eagerly pushed those cassettes into friends' hands -- "You've got to listen to this!""
History of one-man bands
What are some pop songs that were big hits across Europe, but not in the US?
Where's the best classical and opera, streaming online? And while we're at it, how about some great eclectic radio, streaming online?
Recommendations! Intro to conscious hip-hop, or some new-ish soul-ish, or something dreamy, or "it'll be alright" comfort music, or turn up the upbeat mixes for working outdoors, or maybe dance music that always makes you happy.
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