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Irma Thomas / Anyone Who Knows What Love Is
I just love everything about this song.
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Irma Thomas (b. February 18, 1941, Ponchatoula, Louisiana) whose only national chart hit in a 50 year career is 1963's "Wish Someone Would Care", is an enduring, Grammy winning, soul, gospel, rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans. Known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans", she is a contemporary of Aretha Franklin and Etta James, but did not tour as relentlessly, and industry support and major commercial success eluded her for decades. Thomas, who once was told by execs at Atlantic in the late 60's that "she just didn't have it anymore" Read more on Last.fm more...
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Seinabo Sey / Younger (Kygo Remix)
This song has been on a lot in the Kuhn household over the past month. I heard this first and then tracked down the original and this is hands down a better version for me. Summertime anthem for me.
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Seinabo Sey was born in Södermalm, Stockholm in 1990, both of Swedish and West African ancestry. She moved to Halmstad, Sweden at the age of eight to attend Östergårdsskolans music program for musically gifted teenagers. At the age of sixteen she moved back to Stockholm to attend and later graduate from Fryshusets esthetics program with a concentration in soul music. Sey first released the track Sunshine in October 2012. Working with producer Magnus Lidehäll Read more on Last.fm more...
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Knox Brown / Harry's Code
Don't have a whole lot to say on this, it's just great stuff.
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Shuggie Otis / Sweet Thang
Shuggie graced one of my prior mixes, but I had to put this one in. It made a prominent appearance in Dallas Buyers Club, but it's such a sexy groove, so damn good.
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Shuggie Otis, born 1953, is the son of Johnny Otis, a rhythm and blues musician. He started performing in his youth and released his first record in 1970. He not only writes songs, but also plays guitar, piano, organ, and bass. He has recorded with Frank Zappa, Al Kooper, Etta James, and Eddie Vinson, and more recently Mos Def. The Brothers Johnson's version of his composition "Strawberry Letter 23" reached #1 in the Billboard rhythm and blues chart and #5 in the Billboard pop chart in 1977. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Frank Ocean / Swim Good
This was an also ran from a few mixes ago, but I keep coming back to it for some reason. Great beat, interesting story, great vocals.
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Frank Ocean (born October 28, 1987) is an American singer/songwriter and member of the gleefully-hedonistic hip-hop collective OFWGKTA. He was born Christopher Edwin Cooksey (later legally changed to Breaux) in Long Beach, California, and moved to New Orleans with his family as a young child. He has helped pen tracks for Justin Bieber, John Legend, Brandy, and Beyoncé. In 2011, Ocean released his debut mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, for free via his Tumblr. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Cass McCombs / There Can Be Only One
Probably my favorite track on this mix. I just think each part of this song is perfect. The drums, melodic baseline, the simple yet deadly guitar licks, and the lyrics and their delivery. This was the first song to make this mix.
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Cass McCombs (born in Concord, California in 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and performer. An enigmatic folk nomad, McCombs is a quintessentially American artist; "he's quietly become one of (the country's) finest chroniclers of fringe characters, a writer of heart-rending love songs and psychedelic odes to the natural world, a teller of tall-tales with a sense of humor dry as desert wood, and that rare folksinger who actually sings about the folk. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Ben Khan / Youth
A late add, solid summer jam.
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Ben Khan (born in 1992 in Oxfordshire) is a musician currently residing in London, United Kingdom. Khan makes dark electronic music, mixing neo-soul and R&B. Khan is signed to Blessed Vice. Unlike most artists of his ilk, Khan’s primary instrument is guitar, and he claims listening to “mostly old-school” artists like B.B. King, Fleetwood Mac, and, Nirvana helped him develop his bluesy chops. He then turned to hip-hop (Earl Sweatshirt, Pusha T Read more on Last.fm more...
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Benjamin Francis Leftwich / Shine (Kygo Remix)
A second Kygo remix, not quite as good as the Seinabo Sey one above, but catchy as hell and I think again a better version than the original. I don't know anything about Kygo, but he/she has a ton of remixes on Soundcloud that are really well done.
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Benjamin Francis Leftwich (Born September 4, 1989) is an English singer-songwriter from York. Leftwich began playing music at the age of ten and grew up listening to The Rolling Stones and Nina Simone before discovering such singer-songwriters as Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, and Elliott Smith. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Vacationer / The Wild Life
Earworm, summertime, just pop sugar perfection.
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Most people do not take vacations often enough, some not at all. Quality vacations let us recapture that feeling of childlike exploratory freedom, which we seem to experience less and less frequently as we age. We can have fun without worrying about the familiar consequences presented to us regularly in life. Taking a good amount of time away from our daily stresses allows us to return to our lives refreshed and better equipped to handle whatever comes next. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Panama Wedding / All Of The People
See above...you have entered the summer pop jam section of the mix. Pretty cool video too
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Panama Wedding is a music project by Peter Kirk from New York City, United States with support by Lauren Zettler, Jared McCarthy, Brett Spigelman and Kenny Bernard. Panama Wedding is signed to Glassnote Records. Kirk was playing classical piano growing up in Long Island's Oyster Bay and he made it a habit to record songs in his bedroom with his friends. When he moved to New York City as an adult, Kirk rented a studio in midtown Manhattan to continue exploring writing and recording music. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Young Rising Sons / High
Annnnd another one. The whistle is in my head even as I'm writing this.
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Music creates feelings. Be it intentional or not, songs often have the potential to bring the listener to the highest high or the lowest low. Most songs, however, leave us somewhere in between. While some bands choose to ignore the way in which their music might impact the mood of their listeners, the four ambitious youngmen who make up Young Rising Sons fully embrace it. At a time when cynicism and moral outrage are quite common in modern music, Young Rising Sons choose to focus on the brighter side of life. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Lee Fields & The Expression / Just Can't Win
Fantastic new record by Lee Fields. His cover of Magnolia doesn't quite beat the original, but this song is a great example of a band firing on all cylinders. The drums are just great.
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Lee Fields (b. Wilson, NC, USA - as one of four children), is currently leader of Lee Fields & The Expressions, which released My World (2009). Lee spent his adolescence singing in church & listening to rnb, from the likes of: James Brown, The Temptations, Eddie Floyd, Otis Redding & the 60s Memphis sound. He joined a few of the South's racial balance groups & began playing college circuits, inc' East Carolina University, Duke University & Georgia Tech. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Steely Dan / Dirty Work
Reminded of this song during American Hustle, but it's a gem.
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Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band which formed in 1972. The band was formed by Donald Fagen (vocals, keyboards) and Walter Becker (guitar, bass), who met in 1967 while both attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and began a songwriting partnership shortly thereafter. Their music is characterized by dark, witty lyrical narratives, obscure lyrical allusions and complex, jazz-influenced instrumentation and chord sequences, overlying more ordinary popular song structures. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Damien Jurado / Silver Malcolm
Love the spacy sound of this song that comes down to earth for the verses and then disintegrates again.
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Damien Jurado (born 12 November 1972) is an American singer-songwriter in the indie-rock tradition of Seattle, Washington. His music is regarded as being heavily influenced by folk music. Over the years he has released albums on many labels; today his primary label is Secretly Canadian. He was once in the band, Coolidge, with Seattle's David Bazan. Jurado's solo career began during the mid-1990s, releasing lo-fi folk based recordings on his own cassette-only label, Casa Recordings, beginning in 1995. Read more on Last.fm more...
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First Aid Kit / Cedar Lane
I'm not as fired up about this album as I was their first, but I think this song earned it's spot on here. Classic harmonies and some great phrasing.
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There are three bands called First Aid Kit: 1. Swedish indie/folk duo which consists of sisters Johanna (b. 31 October 1990) and Klara Söderberg (b. 8 January 1993) both from Enskede, Sweden. The sisters began composing songs in 2007, taking their name at random from an English dictionary. They began uploading their music to their My Space page and sending their songs to Swedish radio station, this led to live performances and offers from Record Companies. Read more on Last.fm more...
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The Lighthouse and The Whaler / Venice (Savoir Adore Remix)
The third and final remix. Late addition, just a solid tune.
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The Lighthouse and the Whaler is a band from Cleveland, Ohio, though its name alludes to the waters off the coast of Massachusetts. Inspired by a theme from Moby Dick, the band’s name alone is enough to make underpaid Literature teachers beam with pride. It all started with two musicians -- Aaron Smith and Michael LoPresti -- who decided to collaborate in a field one sunny afternoon because that seemed nicer than playing in a basement. By the end of the day they had written their first song. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Magic! / Rude
This one almost got left on the cutting room floor for being too poppy/top 40, but damn it's catchy as hell. I know it's white guys from Canada doing reggae, but it's more in the vein of the Police "reggae" than the real deal.
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MAGIC! is a Canadian reggae fusion band, composed of well-known songwriter and record producer Nasri Atweh on lead vocals and Mark Pellizzer, Alex Tanas and Ben Spivak. In 2013, they released their debut single, "Rude" that reached number one in the United States, number two in Australia and New Zealand and number six in Canada. MAGIC! is featured on Shakira's self-titled album on the track entitled "Cut Me Deep", released in March 2014. Other recordings on their upcoming debut album include "No Way No" Read more on Last.fm more...
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We Are Twin / The Way We Touch
I don't LOVE this song, but I love her voice and think it's a solid effort.
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WE ARE TWIN (written in caps) are an alternative indie-pop duo consisting of the New Yorker Gabi Christine and Germany-raised Sri Lankan multi-instrumentalist and producer Nicolas Balachandran. The two met during a 2009 songwriting session and after that first meeting, they had written their fifteen first songs. They are currently residing in Los Angeles, California, United States. "Our creative minds are identical," Gabi says. "It's the most natural thing in the world." Read more on Last.fm more...
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Sharon Van Etten / Every Time The Sun Comes Up
This song earned it's place by virtue of the line "I wash your dishes, but I shit in your bathroom." Made me laugh out loud the first time I hard it. Not a bad song otherwise.
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Sharon van Etten (born February 26, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and actress from New Jersey. Currently based in Brooklyn, NY, USA, van Etten débuted with single Much More Than That (2007, Abaton Book Company). Her album Are We There was released on 14 May 2014 on Jagjaguwar). van Etten moved to Tennessee to attend Middle Tennessee State University, where she discovered a variety of influential music. After moving back home to New Jersey, she was encouraged by Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio to pursue a career in music. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Mapei / Don't Wait
Solid track, probably could have made it earlier, but here we are.
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Mapei is an underground rapper from Stockholm, Sweden, whose indie electronic musical style and blogosphere following drew comparisons to M.I.A. and Amanda Blank. Born Jaqueline Cummings, she scored her first underground hit with Video Vixen. www.myspace.com/Mapei Read more on Last.fm more...
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Michael Kiwanuka / No More Running
Pulled this off Youtube at the last minute. Supposedly off his upcoming album which I am looking forward to. Solid closer.
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Michael Samuel Kiwanuka (born 3 May 1987) is an English soul musician who is signed to Communion Records. He has been compared to Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, Randy Newman, Terry Callier, and Otis Redding, as well as Van Morrison and the Temptations. In January 2012, he won the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll. Kiwanuka grew up in Muswell Hill, London, the son of Ugandan parents who had escaped the Amin regime. He attended Fortismere School, leaving there in 2005 after completing his A-Levels. Read more on Last.fm more...
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50 / July 2014 / Noah Kuhn
- Anyone Who Knows What Love IsIrma Thomas
- Younger (Kygo Remix)Seinabo Sey
- Harry's CodeKnox Brown
- Sweet ThangShuggie Otis
- Swim GoodFrank Ocean
- There Can Be Only OneCass McCombs
- YouthBen Khan
- Shine (Kygo Remix)Benjamin Francis Leftwich
- The Wild LifeVacationer
- All Of The PeoplePanama Wedding
- HighYoung Rising Sons
- Just Can't WinLee Fields & The Expression
- Dirty WorkSteely Dan
- Silver MalcolmDamien Jurado
- Cedar LaneFirst Aid Kit
- Venice (Savoir Adore Remix)The Lighthouse and The Whaler
- RudeMagic!
- The Way We TouchWe Are Twin
- Every Time The Sun Comes UpSharon Van Etten
- Don't WaitMapei
- No More RunningMichael Kiwanuka
