Henry Thomas – “Bull Doze Blues”
This should be familiar to anyone with a radio – it got covered. And while the resultant track might not be my favorite from Canned Heat, the Henry Thomas version has a weird ghostly feel to it unmatched by other players.
The Blues Busters – “Wings of a Dove”
The Blues Busters may have been one of the earliest ska groups that I ever heard…”Wings of a Dove” remains an unmitigated classic.
To Forego the RZA: U-God’s Dopium
Mos def not a classic, but a good deal of Dopium surpasses the slew of internet sensations currently knocking about…
BLOGLOAD: U-God’s Dopium
Jimmy McGriff x Richard ‘Groove’ Holmes
I shoulda bought this disc when I had the chance…McGriff is fire.
Radio Rap Circa ‘92 (Part Five)
Cypress Hill – Self Titled (Ruffhouse)
“When youre up on the hill in your big home/I’m out here risking my dome/Just for a bucket/Or a fast duck it/Just to stay alive, yo I got to say fuck it!”
Skinheads x Reggae, Reggae
I have no idea what movie or program this is actually from, but I copped it at Crop No. 1…Dig the racist 14 year olds explaining that they don’t hate all brown folks, they like Jamaicans.
Blu x Knox College
I was unaware that Blu had disappeared, but he turned up at Knox College over there in Illinois. That first song sounds unfamiliar, but following the Johnson & Johnson stuff comes off a bit better live…We’re still just waiting for that major label debut, though…
Jay Reatard x Fuel TV
Well, that song (above) kinda rules and is a pleasant return to form after the split with Sonic Youth…the fact that Fuel TV saw fit to censor this, though, is preposterous.
Good stuff apart from that.
“My Shadow” (below) already seems like a modern classic and this version finds Mr. Reatard inserting more power pop-ness than on the album version…
Radio Rap Circa ‘92 (Part Four)
A Tribe Called Quest – Low End Theory (Jive)
“Head for the border, go get a taco/I’ll be wreckin from the jump street, meaning from the get-go/Sit back relax and let yourself go/Don’t sweat what you heard, but act like you know…”
Radio Rap Circa ‘92 (Part Three)
Ice Cube– Death Certificate (Priority)
“Comin up short of the green guys/And I might start slangin bean pies/Or the bootleg t-shirt of the month/With “U Can’t Touch This” on the front…”