We Need Some Soul For These Gloomy Days
Nov 1st, 2008 by Citizen192
Forecasts in Los Angeles called for rain until this evening; friends in New York City email me with accounts of wind chills blistering enough to make you quiver under layers of Burberry; Mexico City is a gloomy mess this morning with highs expected in the low 60’s and the lows expected to send Mexicanos into involuntary bouts of teeth-chattering.
At least I don’t have to see the smog today.
I’ll probably endure some ridicule for this but I’ve never listened to Marlena Shaw in my life. I can’t recall my boy “Theets” ever spinning a 45 on his record-player in Santa Barbara — a place where I first came into contact with the JB’s, John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter — but there’s a Dockers’ commercial (once again, a commercial I’ve never seen before Mexico City) playing repeatedly on networks here and the tune used is Marlena Shaw’s “California Soul.” Yes, this is when you say, “Bro, you’ve never heard this song?” No, dick. I haven’t. But I did a quick search on Hype Machine and within seconds I was uploading the mp3 onto my library. Couple this tune with Nina Simone’s “Take Care Of Business” and you’ve got yourself a bouncier step this afternoon. And just like that I’ve warmed up that much more. Good Saturday, amigos.
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That Marlene Shaw record is great..
I just got the Nina Simone remix album from the library. She don’t need no remix.
I think I have that remix as well. And I hear ya, she needs no remixing. You got any new tunes?
Lots of gloom in the Bay right now too. Four consecutive days of it. What if it just never let up? Gloom for the rest of our lives.
At least I’ve got a couple new songs on the pod for the walk back in the rain.
“Walking back” implies you didn’t stay at your cozy cottage last night? ooo.