Entertainment For Lively Minds
Take Me To The River (On A Sunday Morning)
Posted by Brianr on 5 September 2010 - 10:05am.
Half way through a two week holiday. Back home from Cornwall and enjoying the first "back in my own bed" lie in of the fortnight. Coffee in hand. Headphones on. Listening to the wonderful Kent Compilation that I bought over 18 months ago but has been in the queue. What better way to start a mellow day than to wallow in the pain and misery of these tortured souls. I seem to remember a full page review of this box set in an old edition of Word. Can I have link to re-read it? Alternatively if anyone knows what month / year it appeared I can dig it out of of the magazine pile.
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Ah the good Reverend Green
what an appropriate musical companion for a Sunday morning.
The Light was on one of her monumental calls to her best friend who now lives in Singapore yesterday. This has led to phone bills the size of the bank bail-out chez Sheev. Indeed, The Light's "best" friends of which there seem to be a goodly two dozen or so, represent a global diaspora whose incessant need for contact may precipiate a network meltdown.
I digress, in order to quell my palpitations at the the prospect of a phone bill that may be the size of a phone book landing on the doormat imminently, I repaired to the sofa with the laptop, the good company of this 'ere blog and a glass of something cold and intoxicating.
For music, I plugged in the phones and tapped into Spotify and explored Hi's impeccable catalogue - OV Wright, Syl Johnson, Ann Peebles - overseen by maestro producer Willie Mitchell.
Above all, there is Al Green. I came across the track below which I'd not heard before. It is a perfect summation of what makes this music so damn fine, so damn sexy, so damn funky. As important almost as the sublime Green voice is the clipped and consummate musicianship of which a key element is Al Jackson Jr on drums.
Just listen to the drum break that opens the track below. Sit back, enjoy and marvel.
Al Green "I'm So Glad You're Mine"
And this is just sublime
One of the finest records ever made...
Simply Beautiful.