A Day at the Barbers.

That Ain't The Way You Make Love.

Tonight's track is 'That Ain't The Way You Make Love' by ZZ Hill. Too tired right now to write out any history on ZZ. Enjoy the song though!

Clouds In My Sunshine.

Tonight's song is 'Clouds In My Sunshine' by Redbone. Supposedly based on the urging of Jimi Hendrix, in the late 60's Redbone formed  and billed themselves as an all Native American rock outfit, though most of them were mixed ('red bone' is Cajun slang for someone who is mixed, but it is usually used in reference to females.) Formed in Los Angeles, some people consider them to have been very influential on the Los Angeles rock scene. Now they're probably best known for their hit 1974 'Come And Get Your Love.'

Here is 'Clouds In My Sunshine' off their 1973 album Wovoka:

Tonight's bonus track is one of their instrumental jam tracks off their 1970 self-titled debut album. Here is 'Suite Mode':

Faithful To The End.

Todays track is 'Faithful to the End' by D.J. Rogers. D.J. Rogers started by singing and playing piano for his local church before recording an album for Shelter records in 1973 which didn't garner much attention despite having some excellent tracks on it. His second album, from 1976, It's Good to be Alive contained the song 'Say You Love Me' which got a lot of radio play, but did not translate to many album sales. Rogers blamed this on the label and believed they were 'lazy' and they only had the label so they could use it as a 'tax write-off.' He would have small amounts of success with future singles which would chart on the R&B charts, but not much beyond that. In the 80's he returned to his roots and began releasing gospel albums (his records always had a gospel influence, but were never straight-up gospel records.) 

Here is D.J. Rogers' 'Faithful to the End':

And as a bonus is a track that's a little funkier and off of his self-titled debut album. Here's 'Bail Out':

I'll Turn to Stone.

I'm feeling a little under the weather tonight, so only songs to go along with tonights post again.

The track for tonight is Barbara Randolph singing 'I'll Turn to Stone'

As a bonus track here is her cover of Marvin Gaye's 'Can I Get A Witness':

Soulful Weekdays.

This weeks theme is going to be comics based off soul songs, just like the Soulful Sunday posts I make each week. The only differences will be that the comics will be longer and depending on the amount of time I have I might not be able to post any history of the artists, but I will definitely still post the songs for you all to listen to. Hope you enjoy!

Todays track is 'Mother Nature' by Albert Jones:

I'll also still try to include some bonus tracks. So, today is another Albert Jones track called 'Unity':

Crazy She Calls Me.

Todays track is 'Crazy She Calls Me' as brought to you by 'Mr. Excitement' Jackie Wilson. Jackie Wilson has a long history, so I will provide a link his Wikipedia page at the end and instead give a short history of the song itself.

This song was originally known as 'Crazy He Calls Me' and was most famously recorded by Billie Holiday in 1949. It's been covered numerous times by men and women alike with the men simply changing all the 'he's' to 'she's.' The tune was written by Carl Sigman who had previously written 'Pennsylvania 6-5000' with Glen Miller and had also penned tracks with Duke Ellington. While the lyrics were handled by Bob Russell who would go on to write 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother' with Bobby Scott for The Hollies. The song was later inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.

Here is Jackie Wilson's take on 'Crazy He Calls Me':

And, as a bonus, and for good measure, here is Billie Holiday's version:

And here is a link to the history of Jackie Wilson, who is credited as being one of the main bridges in helping R&B transition into Soul.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Wilson