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    New Favorite Song

    My brother turned me onto this record.  80s/90s R&B cat reinvents himself as a Motown-inspired hybrid of Smokey Robinson & Stevie Wonder with a dash of Sam Cooke, a foot in the present and an ear to the future.

    Buy this thing and let yourself go.  You’ll dance, you’ll sing, you’ll smile.  You might even choke up a little like me.

    I keep playing this cut, “Sometimes”, over and over and over and over lately.

    I think about this coming Tuesday and I pause …

    I’m excited yet guarded.  I’ve got a feeling of cautious relief.  There’s embers of hope but still ..

    such a long .. long .. long way to go.

    Get Ready

    Peace,

    Mark

    Raphael Saadiq

    On Thursdays we take a break from gerunds

    and announce that we’ll be posting new material will arrive soon.

    A brand new song will be uploaded in a matter of days (there’s a sly out) here and to iTunes, a batch of videos will arrive, and we’ll be tweaking the layout here to focus more on the stacks of wax, relocating the blog portion to the periodicals section.

    But let’s spin this one to let the day begin:

    “Let The Day Begin”

    The Call

    Let The Day Begin

    Motivating

    “Casino Royale”

    Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

    Sounds Like

    Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Sounds Like

    Morning

    “Monday Morning Rock”

    Marshall Crenshaw

    Field Day

    Marshall Crenshaw - Field Day

    Digging

    “Gold Diggers”

    Kevin Salem

    Ecstatic

    Kevin Salem - Ecstatic

    Working

    “Working On A Dream”

    Bruce Springsteen

    Working On A Dream

    Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream

    Spinning

    “Sun Is Shining”

    The Fireman

    Electric Arguments

    The Fireman - Electric Arguments