Disco track #2 for this July 4th weekend is damn near the most perfect disco song ever recorded & it's still both funky and relevant. It went to #1 on the Dance chart in 1979 for a week & is the band's only hit. The full name of the band is actually Love De-Luxe with Hawkshaw's Discophonia, but I mean... who can remember all of that? There's actually a 16-minute version, and if you want it let me know. This may be half that long, but no less of a stone groove & as much of a ...
The legendary Gil-Scott Heron, the black radical poet, musician, composer, author, purveyor of spoken word and singer (whom many refer to lovingly with titles like "the black Bob Dylan" and "the godfather of rap"), has been long presumed dead due to his conspicuous absence from music. Though kept alive through retrospectives and reverential referencing of him by those whom he influenced, Scott-Heron himself seemingly vanished 15 years ago after an experimental and efficacious music career which spanned four decades. Like several of his contemporaries, Scott-Heron accrued a tremendous following and much of his success during the 1970's and 1980's, ...
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