Song of the Day: A classy, richly layered, new funk-pop-soul number by the high-voiced south R&B London singer-songwriter who has echoes of Curtis Mayfield
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He’s back: Joel Culpepper
Once & Future Band – The Old Brain
Once & Future Band
Song of the Day: After the frenzied blood in the brain by Pom Poko, a slower, but rather beautiful number on grey matter by the rock band from Oakland, California fronted by Joel Robinow
Read moreCurtis Mayfield – Give Me Your Love / Move On Up / Keep On Keeping On
Curtis Mayfield on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1972
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Baby Huey, whose brilliant only album was produced by Curtis Mayfield, let’s turn to the man himself with a trio classic tracks from 1972 that show the full range of his funk and orchestration prowess
Read moreBaby Huey and the Baby Sitters – Listen To Me / Hard Times
At work and play: Baby Huey, as shown on his sole album of 1971
Song of the Day: We move from Britain’s Labi Siffre to a funk-soul legend from Indiana, who died at the age of just 26 and whose album, The Baby Huey Story: Living Legend was released posthumously in 1971
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