This one’s for sobering up later…
One for chopping and sampling later.
Holy crap, I’ve heard samples of this. That’s some very tasty percussion. Nice. It’s sweet. From the treble. But the bass is still respectable. Seriously. This is just beautifully mixed. No matter the silly content.
Are you kidding? That was freakin’ hilarious!
If you liked that, here he is again, accompanied by an astonishingly talented little girl - his niece according to the comments.
I wonder what the rest of the family is like
Dig it…
Introduced to this tonight:
And again:
Holy shit I needed this today. Thank you.
Old school feel-good music, hmm? This, maybe?
Maybe this is feel-good, for certain values of feel-good, eh?
Here ya go:
And damned if that album isn’t just chocked full o’ feel good.
The Fillmore… West?
As usual, even my “feel good” songs tend a bit towards the melancholy, but Amanda Brown’s smile makes up for it in this one:
Love that song. (Jerry Lee Lewis’s cover is also pretty good, not least because he gives it his own spin, but I think Lewis has mentioned McGhee as an early influence.)
Heh. I barely made it to the end of the first line: “you keep saying you’ve got something for meeee [loose contralto warble]”
[Shudders audibly]
Try this one:
Oscar Peterson Trio featuring the late great Clark Terry on… vocals
For me, these ones pretty consistently serve as portals to a better state of mind:
Cyriak must have some really powerful video editing tools in his arsenal.