Today I have a music quiz for you: Who’s the Luther Vandross of our time? Answer: NO ONE. NO ONE CAN REPLACE LUTHA. That obvious fact notwithstanding, there is an amazingly fresh voice that I really like that reminds me of Luther Vandross and Teddy Pendergrass and other men I listened to while growing up. [...]
Guess what? I have new writings over at Babble today. I’d like to think of it as a love letter to my children as they’re growing older. I’m finding that my writing about them is changing right now. Not so much stories about things they do on a daily basis as it is summaries of [...]
Apparently, I’m not finished with the Gilberto familia. Sunday mornings around here we spend a lot of time listening to music. Mostly Pandora but sometimes Spotify. Since we’ve had Pandora stations set for so long we are loathe to pick up a new music app to start over and The Cuban had it set to [...]
1. It has been four long months since my oldest son has been home. Mason got a summer job that landed him a permanent position in Seattle and he came home this weekend for a short visit. It’s impossible to hide my pride in him. All of my kids share my sense of humor, but [...]
Normally, I don’t just post videos here but this one that recently went viral is so funny to me that I can’t help myself. Whoever Chuck Testa is, he must have a lot of friends who have great poker faces because if he asked you to be in a commercial he’s shooting for his taxidermy [...]
I may as well end the week with Joao Gilberto’s daughter, Bebel. I mean, it’s Friday night, you’ve gotten done with all your work for the week, you’re planning a quiet Fall evening at home with a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau and a loaf of fresh baked bread with some brie, and you deserve it. [...]
There’s no denying that you can hear Joao’s thick accent in this song. Whenever he sings “You make my life so glamorous” I always focus on the word “glamorous” because he sings it like “glam-oohhh-rrrooos”. It just tickles me that he does that. I love it when he rolls his Rs. I was playing this [...]
I’m over at Babble today writing about 10 Good Parenting Things I Did. If it sounds like bragging, it probably is. You should go read it and comment. Here’s a snippet of one of them: 2. My children have gay friends in their lives and I am unabashedly proud of them for not allowing any [...]
Dinah Washington died way too young. She was 39. In that short amount of time, Dinah packed a whole lot of living into her life. She married 8 times and divorced 7. I can’t even imagine. This song, written and performed a full seven years before I was even born, is a true classic. Dinah’s [...]
Since this is my second Sounds of Blackness song, I figured I would at least give a little bit of history about the group. They’ve been around since 1969 when they were formed as a college ensemble group. Because of that, the group has had an ever-changing lineup of singers and musicians attached to it. [...]
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