Fellow Soul Clansman Don Covay pays tribute to the big JT.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Joe Tex Month Day 26: Don Covay's Temptation Was Too Strong
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Debbie Does WFMU
I have prizes for you! |
Tune in today 3-5 PM EST! This is my one and only marathon show this year. Today is the day to show your support to WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban. See you on the radio!
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Joe Tex month day 24: The Soul Clan
In 1968 Joe Tex found himself in yet another one of those situtations where he was ahead of his time and involved in something that has interesting echoes in modern day soul, r&b and rap: the Soul Clan.
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Labels: Arthur Conley, Ben E. King, Don Covay, Dr. Filth, Joe Tex, Otis Redding, Roc-A-Fella Records, Sam Cooke, SAR, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett
J.R. Williams' Ichiban One-Liners!!!
Make a pledge of $50 or more to Ichiban before today at 5 PM EST, and you could win this fabulous compilation of Ichiban One-Liners by our own J.R. Williams!! Check the complete track listing HERE!
*Please specify that you would like your pledge to be credited to Ichiban! Otherwise, I won't see it and you won't be entered!!
Help keep us on the air for another year!!
The Tradewinds - Gotcha
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
More Golden Gassers!!
Tune in to Music To Spazz By tonight from 9 PM - Midnight when head chimp, Dave the Spazz tap dances for your dollars to keep WFMU on the air for one more year. These are desperate times and desperate times call for desperate measures! Gaylord Fields will personally thank you on the air!!!
$75 pledge |
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Joe Tex month day 22: The "uptown" albums
Joe's next album, From the Roots Came the Rapper, is one I have never been able to crack the code on. There is just so much wrong with it. From the outset - look at that weird mod cover - what does that have to do with our down-home, nitty-gritty philosopher?
The album was recorded in Muscle Shoals studios with Eddie Hinton and some of his fellow Shoalers, so the playing is fine, but this really does sound like Joe trying to make an Isaac Hayes album. There's only one original on the record, and one of the two "raps", on the tediously eternal version of Burt Bacharach's "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", is one of the few times I can't connect with a Tex sermon. Sure there's some ringer songwriters - future Ichiban month candidate Jerry Williams Jr. (aka Swamp Dogg), Don Covay, and the Left Rev. Eugene McDaniels, but overall things just feel off.
I suspect that the main reason the record doesn't really launch is because it's produced by Dave Crawford and Brad Shapiro, rather than Joe's main man, Buddy Killen. It's the only record that Killen didn't produce after Joe joined Dial, and it shows. JT sounds more uptight and serious than usual, and the whole thing is just kind of a drag. Anyone who has any insight into why this album is worthwhile is encouraged to open my ears to it.
A new direction was coming, though, as was Joe's biggest hit yet.
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Labels: Dr. Filth, Eddie Hinton, Joe Tex, Muscle Shoals
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Let's Have A Wing Ding
I'll be live on the WFMU Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban webstream this Friday from 3-5 PM with MC Julie from the Dark Night Of The Soul With Julie, heard every Tuesday 3-6 AM on WFMU. We will be giving away prizes in exchange for your dough. We need full participation from all the Ichibaners!! If you are listening while you're at work getting paid, please PLEDGE! Make sure to specify "Ichiban" to be entered into the drawing for fabulous prizes, like rare records and DVDs.
$15 = entered into drawing
$50 = entered into drawing + grand prize drawing (CD compiled by J.R. Williams)
$75 = all + Ichiban One-Liners Volume 3 with artwork by Takeshi Tadatsu
$180 = all + WFMU Vintage Pack + 3 DJ premiums + T-shirt, bag, naming rights
More swag here.
Please specify you'd like to credit your pledge to Ichiban to qualify.
Week 2: Chris T will take over hosting duties.
Thanks to listener Jonathan Lemon for the video!
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Road Runner Twice
Thanks to listener Sean Bonnell for sending in this amazing clip of Bo Diddley doing his thing circa 1972!! Wembley Stadium - London, England. Check out this lineup!!
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Joe Tex month day 21: JT and the sons of a gun from next door
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