In the Trunk
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IN THE TRUNK: “If We Loved” by A Taste of Honey (Audio)
I remember the first time I picked up this record and thought, ‘Some fine sisters? Who sing and play guitar too?! Uhh, hell yeah!!’ A Taste of Honey’s...
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IN THE TRUNK: “Ceciliana” by Max Roach (Audio)
Max Roach started drumming at an early age, playing in church like so many musicians, then later on studying music. Born in North Carolina, but...
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IN THE TRUNK: “Island Letter” by Shuggie Otis (Audio)
You know that excited feeling you get when you kiss someone for the first time? Or when you find a record that is just so...
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IN THE TRUNK by Rob Trujillo: Eddie Kendricks – “Intimate friends” (Audio)
Eddie Kendricks has one of the coolest, high pitch voices you’ll ever hear on a soul track. I still remember painting a mural in the...
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IN THE TRUNK: Lonnie Liston Smith – “A Chance for Peace” (Audio)
The first time I heard the bass line from this song was on a loop called “Savage Intelligence,” by Bay Area MC’s named Konceptual Dominance...
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IN THE TRUNK: “The Boy Is Doin’ It” by Hugh Masekela (Audio)
This is one of those gems I picked up at the Laney Flea Market in Oakland, California. My dad used to talk a lot about...
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IN THE TRUNK: “Baby I Love You So” by Colourbox (Audio)
I remember hearing this song on one of my dad’s mixtapes. I searched for this song many times at Amoeba Records before the days of...
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IN THE TRUNK: Cymande – “Bird” (Audio)
Coming from the UK via the West Indies (Jamaica and Guyana), Cymande started making funky jams that have become mainstays for party rockers in the US and...
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IN THE TRUNK – “Holy Thursday” by David Axelrod (Audio)
“Bronx keeps on taking it!” That was the first thing I thought when I heard the original David Axelrod song. But then, there are so...
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IN THE TRUNK: Thee Midniters – “Whitter Blvd” (Audio)
Thee Midniters are one of those unmistakeable California Chicano rock bands. I didn’t know their name at first, but remembered their sound every time I...
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IN THE TRUNK: Emerald, Sapphire, and Gold (ESG) – “UFO” (Audio)
ESG is one of the things I most love about NYC; people breaking rules and playing, or dancing however they want to. “Emerald, Sapphire, and...
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IN THE TRUNK: “When Love Has Grown” by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway (Audio)
“When Love Has Grown” is one of my all time favorite duets; it makes me wonder what happened to the idea of beautiful duets in...
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IN THE TRUNK: “Graham Central Station” (Audio)
The voice singing “Tis your kind of music” is the blast off point for me on “Graham Central Station,” from the interplanetary LP Release Yourself. Graham...
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IN THE TRUNK: “Upside Down” by Fela Kuti (Audio)
This is the title track from Fela Kuti’s LP Upside Down released in 1976. The first time I heard this song was on Rich Medina’s...
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IN THE TRUNK: Stevie Wonder – “Sylvia” (Audio)
“Sylvia” is one of my favorite Stevie Wonder songs. It’s not very well known but is a gem from the 1966 Down to Earth album...
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De La Soul Wear Their “Royalty Capes” in New Video
The legendary rap group, De La Soul give us the third visual treatment for the single “Royalty Capes,” taken from their crowdsourced album Anonymous Nobody which was released in...