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[nofatclips]

Mind Eraser by Nicole Atkins from the album Italian Ice - Video by Big Howl

[thebowerypresents]

Say She She Get Funky at Sold-Out Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday Night

Say She She – Music Hall of Williamsburg – June 8, 2024

Some things never go out of style, like blue jeans, baseball or funky good times. Say She She brought a whole lot of the latter to Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday night, mixing a timeless funk with a modern-day sensibility — and the good times were rolling. The set opened with “Reeling,” the three vocalists — Piya Malik, Sabrina Mileo Cunningham and Nya Gazelle Brown — delivering soulful soprano harmonies while the band thumped a groove behind them, as if Sharon Jones had been reincarnated as three opera singers, former Dap-King Binky Griptite leading on guitar to complete the scene.

Brown exuberantly announced, “We came to make you dance” after the opening tune and it was truth in advertising. The packed house grooved to tunes like “C'est Si Bon,” with its heavy bass disco, and “Prism,” which featured the ladies doing a hip shimmy, one of many choreographed moves that helped get the audience boogying. The straight disco-funk sound evolved a bit as the set went on, a darker feel on “Echo in the Chamber,” some serious rock on “Blow My Mind,” which ended with a spicy solo from Griptite, and a modern synth groove on “Questions.”

A take on the Talking Heads’ “Slippery People” was a perfect fit, giving the band extra room to move and ending in a nifty three-woman scat jam. The trio left the stage to the let the band have their deserved spotlight and then returned in new sparkle-heavy outfits and took back the spotlight, saving some of the best vocals for late-set tunes like “Astral Plane” and the serious clavinet-funk of “Forget Me Not.” Ethereal harmonies, a groove-ready band and a packed-house party in Brooklyn, some things will never go out of style. —A. Stein | @Neddyo

Photos courtesy of Ken Grand-Pierre |��www.kenamiphoto.com

[mixamorphosis]

Blog post [HERE]

Tracklist

01. A Charlie Brown Christmas - Intro 02. Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental) 03. Sally Fletcher - White Christmas 04. Dina Washington - Ole Santa 05. James Brown - Santa Claus, Santa Claus 06. Brook Benton - Soul Santa 07. Charles Brown - Christmas Blues 08. Binky Griptite & The Dee Kays - Stoned Soul Christmas 09. Lowell Fulsom - I Wanna Spend Christmas With You 10. Glenna Bell - Be My Valentine On Christmas 11. Marvin Gaye - Christmas In The City 12. Amos Milburn with Charles Brown - Christmas Comes But Once A Year 13. Herb Alpert - Let It Snow 14. Winston Groovy - Merry Christmas 15. The Granville Williams Orchestra - Santa Claus Is Ska-ing To Town 16. Billy May - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Mambo 17. Pearl Bailey - Jingle Bells Cha, Cha, Cha 18. Four Imperials - Santa's Got A Coup de Ville 19. Beginning Of The End - Gee Whiz, It's Christmas 20. Milly & Silly - Getting Down For Christmas 21. Jimmy Reed - Christmas Present Blues 22. Vernon Garrett with Sir Stan & The Counts - Christmas Groove 23. Funk Machine - Soul Santa 24. Harvey Avenue Band - Let's Get Together For Christmas 25. Black On White Affair - Auld Lang Syne 26. Jimmy Jules & Nuclear Soul System - Christmas Done Got Funky 27. The Staples Singers - Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas? 28. James Brown - Merry Christmas Baby 29. Freddy King - Christmas Tears 30. William Clarke - Please Let Me Be Your Santa Claus 31. Lightning Hopkins - Santa Baby 32. Carey Bell - Christmas Train

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[betterwatchout]

Thanks to Mistletunes, I came across a new track by War, a band I haven't listened to since we drove around Cesar Chavez Park during the Bicentennial. It's a reworking of their hit song "Summer," with a hook borrowed from a Burger King commercial.

It put me in mind of Earth, Wind and Fire's repurposing of "September" as "December" about ten years ago. Better yet, their "Joy to the World" gets the Christmas dance party going.

Then there's Binky Griptite's homage to Laura Nyro.

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Susan Tedeschi and Sharon Jones - “Bring it on Home to Me” (Live, 2015)

Though they didn’t get to do it often enough, Susan Tedeschi and Sharon Jones were born to sing together.

Joining forces for a 2015 Spotify Session and backed by members of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, the Dap-Kings and Doyle Bramhall II, Tedeschi and Jones make Sam Cooke’s “Bring it on Home to Me” all their own. And they do it effortlessly, flawlessly and with obvious joy and mutual respect.

Singing virtually every word together save for alternating yeahs at the end of each verse, the vocalists catch their breath only when Derek Trucks and Binky Griptite swap short guitar solos.

And though Trucks is typically a song-stealing-solo kind of guy, this rendition is all Tedeschi and Jones, who died the following year, making this black-and-white video an invaluable keepsake.

Grade card: Susan Tedeschi and Sharon Jones - “Bring it on Home to Me” (Live, 2015) - A

3/23/20

[ryanmuir]

New York Guitar Festival kicks off its 20th anniversary tribute to blues legend Memphis Minnie considered a crucial link connecting acoustic Delta blues with the electrified Chicago sound and was one of the first blues artists to go electric in 1942. Featuring Alsarah and the Nubatones, Nicole Atkins, Rafiq Bhatia, David Bromberg, Kevin Breit, Banning Eyre, Fantastic Negrito, Binky Griptite, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Kaia Kater, Brandon Ross, Amythyst Miah, Vernon Reid, Rachael & Vilray, Abdoulaye Alhassane Toure, Jontavious Willis, and Brandee Younger.

Photos © Ryan Muir

[danakarel]

Stone Soul Christmas - Binky Griptite

[guvnor69]

The Soul Of A Man, Binky Griptite

[burlveneer-music]

The Daptone Super Soul Revue LIVE at the Apollo - 32 tracks from three 2014 dates featuring pretty much the whole Daptone roster

Daptone celebrates 20 years of soulful music with the release of The Daptone Super Soul Revue "LIVE at the Apollo". Performed and recorded over three nights in front of a sold out crowd at The World Famous Theater in Harlem, NY (December 4th - 6th, 2014), this album brings the electrifying performances that helped put Daptone on the map directly to your living room! Featuring live sets from: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires, Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens, Antibalas, The Budos Band, Menahan Street Band, Saun & Starr, The Sugarman 3, as well as our em-cee, Binky Griptite. This album is lovingly dedicated to the memory of our dear friends Sharon, Charles, Naomi and Cliff.

[leolabee]

Shirley Baxter pencil & sharpie on pine guitar 4x2 inches . . Leola was commissioned by Binky Griptite to place a portrait of Amy Winehouse on his guitar. The drawing is in a spot on the side, visible only to the player. It's a bit like having a tattoo on someone's shoulder. Binky Griptite is the former guitarist/emcee of the Dap Kings, Sharon Jones' band, who played on Amy's platinum album Back to Black. . The guitar is custom built from parts: with a pine body based on a Fender Esquire, a maple neck, rosewood fingerboard, and a Seymour/Duncan pickup. Griptite had brought the parts to be assembled at 30th Street Guitars NYC and picked it up on July 23, 2011. . Day nine in an advent calendar of my artistic works, posted every day at sundown. Days seven & eight are not yet open -weekend advent calendar operations were delayed due to travel... . Happy holiday party season!! https://www.instagram.com/p/B53eFV9F6eW/?igshid=1okj1tylyok4s

[nofatclips]

Sail On! by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings from the album Soul of a Woman

[thegroovekuci]

The Groove, EP17 Playlist

Tune in Wednesdays from 12pm-2pm PST on KUCI 88.9 FM. 

Playlist from December 5, 2019:

◆  12:00 PM  ◆

Twistin' Kings — Christmas Twist — Twistin' The World Around

Moonlion — The Drummer Boy

Jo Ann Garrett — One Woman

Promatics — I Think I'm Gonna Let You Go

The Soul Saints Orchestra — Santa's Got A Bag Of Soul

Brainstory — Dead End

Kal's Kids — Long Lonely Broken Heart

Connie Francis — I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings — Funky Little Drummer Boy — It's a Holiday Soul Party

Vivian Reed — I

Vivian Copeland — Chaos (In My Heart)

79.5 — Terrorize My Heart (Disco Dub) — Terrorize My Heart

JJ Barnes — Snow Flakes

Delilah Moore — Wrapped Up Tight

Willie Tee — I'm Having So Much Fun

Hugo Winterhalter — The Christmas Song Cha Cha

◆  1:00 PM  ◆

Binky Griptite And The Sugarman Three — A Lover Like Me — Daptone Gold

The Tempos Disc — Jockey Paradise

The Impressions — Love Me

Felice Taylor — It May Be Winter Outside (But in My Heart It's Spring)

Kenny Wells — I Can't Stop

Thee Sinseers — I Dont Mind

Albert King — Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin

Liam Bailey — Please Love Me

Wallace Brothers — I Need Someone

Debbie Taylor — Check Yourself

Chubby Checker & Bobby Rydell — Jingle Bells Imitations

Gary Walker — Santa's Got a Brand New Bag

Earl Scott — All Mixed Up

The Five Crowns — Just a Part of Life

Nathan Williams — What Price

Binky Griptite — Stone Soul Christmas

Brook Benton — Soul Santa

Twistin' Kings — Christmas Twist — Twistin' The World Around

[mixamorphosis]

Originally posted online in 2010. Merry Mixmas 1-3 are on my main blog [HERE]

Tracklist

01. Bert & Ernie - The Christmas Pageant 02. DJ McFly - If You Jinglin' 03. Run DMC - Christmas In Hollis 04. Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas (The Revenge Re-rub) 05. Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmas Time (Unknown Remix) 06. Cliff Richard - Mistletow & Wine (Unknown Remix) 07. Unknown - Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairy (Dubstep Remix) 08. Mojochronic - Rudolph (You Don't Have To Put On The Red Light) 09. James Brown - Merry Christmas Baby 10. Binky Griptite & The Dee-Kays - Stoned Soul Christmas 11. Blondie - Yuletide Throwdown 12. Jarod Ripley - Just The Way You Are 13. Unknown Mashup 14. Unknown - Jingle Bells 15. Stompin' Tom - Down On Christmas 16. Keb' Mo' - Jingle Bell Jamboree (Album Version) 17. Amy Winehouse vs John Lennon - Imagine Rehab

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[goijerry]

Set I - The Complete Last Waltz // Live @ The Capitol Theatre • 11/17/2018

[dixiefunk]

Big Read Concert with Inyang Bassey and Binky Griptite

[gcmyers]

World of Love

Luna Eterna– Now at the West End Gallery Without love, our earth is a tomb ― Robert Browning Enough said. Here’s a song from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings that captures the spirit of love and the holiday season. The late great Sharon Jones, who died back in late 2016, doesn’t provide the vocals for this song but they are ably handled by her longtime guitarist Binky Griptite. What a great name…