RIBS: April Is ‘Sax Appeal’ Month!

Hey! A quick note while today’s RIBS are still cookin’ in the oven. I’ve designated April as ‘Sax Appeal’ month over on Rhythms In Black Satin.

What that means is that for the next 5 Thursdays the mixes there will be featuring many of our great saxophone players from the past on up to the present day. You’ll be hearing familiar folks like Grover Washington, Jr., David Sanborn, Stanley Turrentine and Jr. Walker as well as some of the masters who pioneered the use of the instrument in Jazz, Swing, R&B and Rock ‘n Roll like Charlie “Bird” Parker, John Coltrane, Sonny Stitt, Illinois Jacquet and many more.

The first playlist will feature a collection of uptempo (and a few mellow) grooves from a variety of players and as we move on into the month I’ll select a few trios and focus on them in the traditional Triple Play Thurs-Day format.

So… make sure you check in over there later today and all month long cause, it’s ‘Sax Appeal’ Month on RIBS! I mean, everybody could use some “great sax” once in a while, right? {smile}

RIBS 5MN5D: 5 Mixes In 5 Days Funk-A-Thon…

Wow, over two months without an post or an update here on NetInfoWeb.com. I knew it had been a while, but didn’t realize it had been that long. Well, truthfully, I think there are going to be some major changes around here in the weeks to come but that is a conversation for another time. Soon, but not right now.

Today’s post is all about something simpler and much more enjoyable. I’ve just finished another one of those 5 mixes in 5 days music marathons over on the MP3blog, Rhythms In Black Satin. This time around I selected 3 of my favorite “old school” funk groups: Mandrill, the Ohio Players and Kool and The Gang, and posted a mix a day over this past Memorial Day weekend. The theme was “funky” and “mellow” in order to highlight not only the fast and funky stuff that these groups have blessed us with, but also to draw attention to their sometimes overlooked “softer” side. All in all, I hope you enjoy these music extravaganzas. And of course, just like last year, we’ll do it all again with another RIBS 5-Mixes-In-5-Days Funk-A-Thon at the end of the summer for the Labor Day weekend!

For your convenience links to all 5 of the mixes are below.

2008 Memorial Day Weekend 5MN5D Funk-A-Thon links:

1. Mandrill, part 1: “Funky Monkey”
2. Mandrill, part 2: “Mellow Monkey”
3. Ohio Players, part 1: “Funky Stuff”
4. Ohio Players, part2: “Mellow Stuff”
5. Kool and The Gang: “Hot and Kool”

RIBS: Temptations, Whispers, Thelma Houston and Jerry Butler…

The new RIBS mix for this week has now been posted. It’s a day late but worth the wait, as I like to say. This week is a “Bonus Hours” mix that focuses on a single album from our chosen artists. The albums this week are:

1. A Song For You (Temptations)
2. Open Up Your Love (Whispers)
3. Thelma and Jerry (Thelma Houston/Jerry Butler)

RIBS TPTD: Temptations, Whispers, Thelma and Jerry

Check it out and enjoy!

RIBS: Get On The Funk Train…

…you can catch it at Graham Central Station!

Got some funky goodness for ya this week over on RIBS. Larry Graham and Graham Central Station.

Can you handle it?

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Cupid’s Hunt: FAQs…

Here are the “FAQs” about the Cupid’s Hunt Podcast Event:

Q1. OK, so what exactly is “Cupid’s Hunt”?

A1. “Cupid’s Hunt” (or CH for short) is a collaboration project of music podcasters and music fans in celebration of Valentine’s Day. On this day all of the folks who are participating have agreed to release and make available for download (MP3 format) a music and/or audio podcast with a Valentines Day theme. This year Valentine’s Day (February 14) is on a Thursday.

Q2. Why the name “Cupid’s Hunt”? What does *that* mean?

A2. The name “Cupid’s Hunt” came out of a late night/all night brainstorming session on Twitter. “Cupid”, the symbol of Love/Valentine’s Day and “Hunt”, meaning to search for. When you put them together and apply the phrase to the world of podcasting you have a “search for music online”. Or, as the CH project has been subtitled: “Searching for Love Music… In All The Right Places!”

Q3. Oh OK, now I get it. How do I get involved with the Cupid’s Hunt project.

A3. Easy. Just make a music and/or audio podcast with a Valentine’s Day theme, good love, bad love, want love, hate love… it doesn’t matter, go where ever your creativity takes you. Once your CH podcast is finished we want you to post it online on Valentine’s Day, Thursday, February 14, 2008.

Q4. How will readers who visit my site know my podcast is part of this project?

A4. Glad you asked! There are several ways that your readers will associate your podcast with the Cupid’s Hunt Project:

1. We have a Cupid’s Hunt logo that we are asking you to post on your site at least two weeks prior to the event.
2. Each participant is asked to start off the Title of your CH post with “Cupid’s Hunt:”, and to also tag their CH post with the keyword “cupidshunt”. (no quotes on the keyword or the phrase in your post Title, of course).
3. NetInfoweb.com, our official Cupid’s Hunt “Headquarters”, will be promoting the event and all of the podcasters/blogs involved in the days leading up to the event.
4. We also have a webring that we are asking all participating sites to join. This will make the “hunt” easier by giving folks an easy way to move from one site to the next in order to find all of the podcasts.

Q5. Where do I get the Cupid’s Hunt logo?

A5. The logo can be downloaded here: Download Cupid’s Hunt Logo

Q6. How do I join the webring?

A6. The webring is called “SoulSites Podiverse”. The signup page is here: Webring Signup Page

Q7. How do I contact NetInfoWeb.com to give them information about my podcast?

A7. There are a few different contact methods: Send an email to TGrundy [at] gmail.com, or contact me on Twitter (tgrundy), or leave a comment on this post. Please let us know your CH podcast info by noon on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 so we can get it in the promotional post.

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Download the Cupid’s Hunt Logo…

Lis (aka anewlis) has created a few additional variations of our Cupid’s Hunt logo. We now have one with a white background, a black background (both .JPG file format) and two with transparent backgrounds (one a .GIF file format and one with a .PNG file format):

All four files are available for download right now in this file: CupidsHuntLogos.zip (right-click to download). Please grab the file and post the logo on your site to help promote the event. More detailed info it will be posted here soon.

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Cupid’s Hunt Is Coming…

Cupid’s Hunt is coming soon… are you gonna be ready?

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RIBS: The Lighter Shades Of Soul…

We’re talking about the color of Soul on RIBS this week, specifically the lighter shades. Proving that you don’t have to glisten in the sun like bronze to be funky, this week we look at three groups that have turned many a party out back-in-the-day when I was DJing:

1. Average White Band
2. KC and the Sunshine Band
   
3. Hall & Oates

Check out the new RIBS Triple Play Thurs-Day mix here…

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SoulTrackin’ for 2008-01-24

• Souled On (Music, Art, Politics, and Life): Feel It All Down In Your Soul…
  If you were playing a word association game with your average soul, jazz, and funk enthusiast, mention of Maceo Parker’s name would likely generate terms emphasizing his role as sideman to several larger-than-life personalities in contemporary music history…
  (tags: maceo+parker maceo funk soulsites soul+music souledon scholar)
• BDPA Foundation: Black Family Technology Awareness Week
  The National Black Family Technology Awareness (BFTAW) Campaign, will celebrate the tenth annual Black Family Technology Awareness Week (BFTAW), February 10 -16, 2008…
  (tags: black family technology BFTAW BDPA)
• Music Biz: A Case Of Suicide, Not Homicide…
  The record industry is careering towards meltdown. A good thing too, says Simon Napier-Bell, after 40 years of working with its most notorious moguls: The Life And Crimes Of The Music Biz
  (tags: tgrundy vox music biz business simon+napier-bell records musicindustry)

RIBS: Eloise Who?

How can you be…

1. 1/4 of a very talented musical family
2. Have 4 album releases by the time you are 33
3. Star in a Tony-nominated play on Broadway (which you co-wrote)
4. Have multiple other significant theater roles
5. Star in a film shown at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films

…and still be largely unknown to the public at large?

Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce to you: Eloise Laws!

Younger sister to Hubert and older sister to Ronnie and Debra, Eloise is the subject of this week’s Rhythms In Black Satin Triple Play Thurs-Day mix.

Check it out, listen and… Enjoy!

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SoulTrackin’ – 1 Year Without JB…

One year ago today we all awoke to the sad news that Soul Brother #1, the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, had passed away and gone to join many of his peers in soul heaven. I’m sure the heavenly choir has never be the same since {smile}. A few days after that I posted a piece called  “Without James Brown” which were just some thoughts and reflections on the man that had been bouncing around in my head at the time. Since I have a few more readers now than I had back then, I figured I would repost it today (who knows, maybe I’ll repost it every year on this day…)

WITHOUT JAMES BROWN…

…the Flames would never have been Famous

…we wouldn’t know the funky sound made by a Night Train

…I might still call myself a Negro, unwilling to Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud

…we would have never broken out in a Cold Sweat

…Mama might never have known that she could Feelgood

…Papa might never have gotten A Brand New Bag

…I might still be waiting for people to give me something, instead of opening up the door and getting it myself

…we might never have known what it felt like to be a Sex Machine

…we wouldn’t know how much fun it is to be Super Bad

…Santa Claus wouldn’t know to Go Straight To The Ghetto

…we might not know how to Make It Funky

…we wouldn’t know the importance of Soul Power

…we might not know what it was like to be Down And Out In New York City

…the President would never have been Funky

…we would never have gone to the bridge in the first place

…Rocky wouldn’t know how funky it could be Living In America

…we wouldn’t have given the drummer a goddamn thing

…there might never have been Parliament/Funkadelic

…Prince, Michael Jackson, Usher (and a host of others) would have had to pay for dance lessons

…there would be no Rap, Hip-Hip or Club; let me repeat that… there would be no Rap, Hip-Hip or Club

…the Blues Brothers would have never gotten “The Band” back together

…nobody would ever Pass The Peas or Give Up Food For Funk

Without James Brown… the world would have been a lot less funky, a lot less soulful, and a lot more boring. We’ll miss you, Godfather of Soul, but your music and musical influences will be with us forever. For that we can be thankful.

Also, in remembrance to JB, I had the good fortune to be asked create a couple of memorial mixes for my good friend EJFlavors and his OSW (Old School Wednesday) podcast that he produces. The links to those mixes are below:

1. OSW: Rest In Peace, James Brown
2. OSW: Rest In Peace, James Brown – Volume II

One last thing… if you use Last.FM let’s let the world know that we remember and miss the Godfather of Soul. Play some James Brown today and make sure you scrobble it to Last.FM. We want to make this a “James Brown Celebration” day today in addition to Christmas.

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RIBS: Some ‘Soulful’ Sounds of the Season…

‘Sounds of the Season’ mix #5, “A ‘Soulful’ Xmas” is now ready for your enjoyment over on RIBS.

This mix features some enjoyably soulful renditions of Christmas originals and classics by some of your favorite Soul/R&B singers and groups.

Happy Holidays!

RIBS: What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas?

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

This classic opening line from Dickens’ “A Tale Of Two Cities” is so very true when it comes to the Christmas holiday season. For most folks, they couldn’t be happier than they are at this time of year. However, for some others, they couldn’t be sadder nor more depressed.

It was with this latter thought in mind that this week’s RIBS Triple Play Thurs-Day mix was created:

RIBS TPTD: “Broken-Hearted” Xmas

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to bum ya out or anything; just taking a minute to look at the other side of the holiday season.

SoulTrackin’ – Rest In Peace, Ike, Rest In Peace…

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ike Turner passed away on Wednesday (December 12, 2007) at the age of 76. Love him or hate him, one thing is for sure: he was one of the early innovators and driving forces behind the music in the early days of Rock & Roll and R&B.

Unfortunately, like so many others, he has never been given the full credit that he deserved for his contributions to the music. In the end, at least he didn’t go out penniless and homeless like many of his peers before him. Finally corralling his demons (and Ike had many of them) he was able to work and tour steadily over the past decade and even won a Grammy Award earlier this year for his Risin’ With The Blues album.

Rest In Peace, Ike.

Also, check out this excellent post on Flea Market Funk for some more remembrances of Ike.

RIBS: ‘Sounds Of The Season’…

By far, hands down, my favorite part of the holiday season is the music. I just love all of the different variations and moods of that have been created over the years from Christmas songs.

All this month Rhythms In Black Satin will be exploring many different ‘Sounds of the Season’ during our regular Thursday get togethers. First up this week, we want you to…

“Have A ‘Funky’ Xmas!”

…with our mix of soul Christmas music that tends towards the funky, uptempo side of things.

Happy, Happy Holidays! to you and your loved ones.

SoulTrackin’ – NetInfoWeb’s ‘SoulSites’ Aggregator Page…

Looking for soul music? Try the NetInfoWeb ‘SoulSites’ Aggregator Page! A ’single page aggregator’ listing 45 Soul, R&B and Jazz music sites for you to enjoy.

Over the weekend one of my new Twitter friends asked the following question…

“Anybody know of any good music sites?”

Now, that’s just the kind of question that this site, NetInfoWeb 2.0, was created to answer! After all, our byline *is* “Trackin’ the Sites, Trackin’ the SOUL!”

Ever since I revamped and refocused the site last year, it’s goal has been to seek and out and discover good websites and/or blogs that were talking about and promoting Soul, R&B, Jazz, Blues and Gospel music online. I try to point to my discoveries via these “SoulTrackin’” posts, in addition to keeping and maintaining a list of the sites I’ve found in the blogroll in the left sidebar.

One of the other things I have always wanted to do was to not only find and list good soul music websites (dubbed ‘SoulSites’), but also automatically list the titles of the headlines of new messages posted on these sites. The layout/functionality I wanted was similar to what you could find on the ’single page aggregators’ like POPURLS or Original Signal.

Fortunately, sometime over the summer I stumbled upon the Spotback website and their personalized news capability at News.Spotback.com. By using the NewsSnacks feature in this section I was able to create my own customized single-page aggregator for ‘SoulSites’ blogs that I had been thinking about.

In actuality, while the link to the NetInfoWeb ‘SoulSites’ Aggregator Page has been posted in the sidebar for sometime, I have never really promoted it much because I’ve been meaning to cleanup the list of sites it contained. Well, I finally got “A Round Tuit”, purged some sites, added some others and now the page is ready for its official unveiling.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Here is the list of sites (in alphabetical order) that you’ll find on the NIW-SSAP:

• A Deeper Shade Of Soul
• About.com R & B
• Bending Corners: journeys in jazz-n-groove
• breath of life
• Brown Eyed Handsome Man
• Buffalo West Music
• Captain’s Crate
• Darcy’s Feel It
• ear fuzz
• EJ Flavors
• Event Calendar (Soul-Patrol)
• FiftyOne:FiftyOne
• Flea Market Funk
• floodwatchmusic.com
• Friday Favecast
• Fufu Stew
• Funky16Corners
• Galactic Fractures
• Get On Down With The Stepfather Of Soul
• Gospel Jazz Podcast
• Home of the Groove
• Honey Soul Music
• In Dangerous Rhythm
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music
• Martini & Jopparelli’s Music Selections
• Memphis Soul Blog
• NetInfoWeb 2.0
• osn (one soulful negro)
• R&B Quietstorm
• RIBS: Rhythms In Black Satin
• soul psychadelicyde
• soul sides
• SoulBounce.com
• Soulcialism
• SOULcrates
• Souled On (Music, Art, Politics and Life)
• The Blush Organization
• The Hits Just Keep On Comin’
• The Latin Jazz Corner
• The Memphis Sound: Lost and Found
• The Night Passage Jazz Podcast
• this is tomorrow
• UBM’s audio stash
• Uppity Music
• Voodoo Funk

BTW… a special “Thanks” goes out to seedoflife for asking the question and indirectly (and unknowingly {smile}) help me get that “round tuit”!

SoulTrackin’ for 2007-09-20…

• RIBS TPTD: Free the Jena 6 – SOUNDS OF PROTEST
  (tags: Jena 6 Six Jasiri X soul rap jazz civil rights justice injustice Jena6 JenaSix JasiriX TPTD netinfoweb playlist Rhythms In Black Satin RIBS)

RIBS: Jazz, Poetry, & Social Commentary…

…all from the mind of Gil Scott-Heron!

Take a trip over to RIBS and check out our latest buffet table of musical morsels we’ve prepared for you this week. Chef Gil Scott-Heron did the honors and he laid out not 1, not 2, but 3 different tables of jazz, poetry and social commentary for you to choose from.

Remember: Triple Play Thurs-Day, a triple treat every Thursday of the week!

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