Tag Archives: Jamie Lidell

My Church Is a Streetcorner

I like to think my close identification with my Hebrew heritage is obvious to anybody paying close attention. But I learned a long time ago not to make a big deal out of religious matters in public, so people I meet are sometimes surprised to discover I’m a profoundly religious individual. Granted I […]

Remixed at Random?

I’m in “a mood.” It’s uncomfortably humid here in my apartment. I’m bored just looking at the armload of vintage vinyl I’ve already flipped through a hundred times that’s leaning against the shelf next to my desk. And I don’t really feel like moving crates around in order to pull some other […]

Lunch @ 45RPM’s

I closed out yesterday’s post with a surprise video clip from one of my favorite new Hip-Hop dudes of the year, Saint Louis, Missouri’s Black Spade. When I originally bigged up homeboy’s debut album To Serve With Love I likened my reaction to it to my reaction to hearing the Below the Heavens, the […]

Fly Like a Sparro, to the (V)Sea(F)

Making comparisons, humorous or inappropriate though they may be, between people is one of my favorite pastimes. These comparisons could be between two music artists, folks I know and total strangers, folks I know and folks other folks I know know, and people I see on the street and celebrities. The most frequent […]

Jim Consults the Throwback Blueprint

After yesterday’s detour into socio-political reflection we’re going back to the music in today’s post. And the music we’re going back to is the kind that does a bit of reflecting of it’s own, back on the music of bygone eras. The first reflectee is Blueprint, the Columbus, Ohio-based producer and emcee probably best known as […]