15 Songs I'm Digging Right Now: #40
Imagine a single kiss so exhilarating it compels you to write a funk song. Imagine!
"Chantey Medley" - Bright Light Quartet, Alan Lomax (1959)
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In the late '50s, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax went on a field-recording trip through the American South with his then-girlfriend, English folk singer Shirley Collins. The recordings they made—later called the Southern Journey—were the first stereo field recordings in the region. He released thirteen volumes of Southern Journey and they’re all worth your time. This is one of my favorite tracks from a vocal group called Bright Light Quartet.
"Just Kissed My Baby" - The Meters (1974)
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Songs about being in love, spending the night together, having sex? You can keep it. But a song that’s about sharing one kiss? A song where we’re meant to believe Art Neville of The Meters shared a single kiss with his sweetheart and it was so exhilarating it compelled him to write a whole song? A FUNK song, at that? That I can get behind.
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