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The Juggs – African Queen EP

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

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A few years ago I was on tour with EL-P, and during said tour EL had a live band playing with him. The band featured Wilder Zobey of Chin Chin fame on keyboards. You may remember Chin Chin from earlier music blasts and their stellar live show during the Ringolevio album release party. EL also had a fellow by the name of Kareem Bunton playing bass. I didn’t know much of this Kareem fellow other than he snored like a fucking maniac and he had a hella-fied sneaker collection. During one late night drive out of the shit hole that is Albuquerque, NM the lot of us that were still up (myself, fellow hangar member Ian McMullin, Soundguy Jimmy, Wilder Zobey, Photog extradonaire and friend of the blast SeanieCameras and the fore mentioned Mr. Bunton) were all up, drunk, watching the sun come up and sharing music, some we enjoyed and some of our own. When it came time for Kareem to play something he humbly said “check this out and tell me what you think, it’s some new stuff I have been working on”. I had no idea what I was in for, but it was jaw dropping. It sounded like Black Sabbath, if Black Sabbath was chilling with Robert Johnson at the crossroads and making a deal with Beelzabub that in return for their mortal soul they get to rock the fuck out of your dick holes with the a sonic assault that makes you want to put babies in your lady and then eat some good pulled pork with no shirt on.

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The Juggs are the fucking truth. I have had a rough version of this album for almost a year now and have been waiting for the day I got an email or a call from Kareem asking me to blast this fucker. Well that day is today. Christmas in April muthafuckers.

PS. The Juggs will be playing tomorrow night at Frank’s Lounge in Ft. Greene tomorrow night (4/22/2010) at 11pm (660 Fulton St
Brooklyn, NY 11217 – (718) 625-9339)

You can also find them on myspace

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SteadyBloggin Soul Review 1: Darondo Legs EP Delux

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

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I’m going to try my hand at making some compilations for the blog.  Like my other posts these will mostly focus on soul, funk, reggae and whatever other randomness I stumble across.  Some will likely have a central unifying theme, others might just be odds and ends all thrown into one zip.  The name of this illustrious series will be SteadyBloggin Soul Review.

For the first installment I decided to improve on something previously uploaded.  As the new SteadyB rises like a phoenix from Arizona I’m going to take one of my earliest posts (now erased by blogger) and make it better, stronger, faster, sleeker, with racing stripes and fire and gorillas wielding laser chainsaws.  And so I give you SteadyBloggin Soul Review 1: Darondo Legs EP Delux.

To recap the story thus far…  Darondo, a very talented gentleman of leisure, records some very good soul music in California during the 70s which falls into unfortunate obscurity.  Fast forward to the present, his music is rediscovered and championed by the burgeoning soul revival crowd.  A collection called Let My People Go is released in 2006 to high praise from fans and critics.

While Let My People Go got a good amount of attention, there was also a smaller release that year which went relatively unnoticed (it was vinyl only and not many were pressed).  It was called the Legs EP, and consisted of 5 tracks.  Only 1 of these 5 was on Let My People Go.  The others remained unavailable to most casual fans.

Due to his new popularity Darondo was also approached for some guest features, recording several songs with Shawn Lee and Clutchy Hopkins.

So what I did here was take the elusive Legs EP, and combined it with the 3 newer songs.  I also threw in a reworking of Didn’t I.  I’m not sure who did this remix but you might remember it going around the blogs a few years ago.   You’ll have to excuse the sound quality of some tracks included, they were the best I could find.  Only about half of these were in my original post.

Tracklist (samples in blue):

Legs EP

1. Legs

2. Legs instrumental

3. Such a night

4. My momma and my poppa (original version)

5. Packing Up

Additional tracks

6. Love of a woman w. Clutchy Hopkins

7. Playboy bunny w. Sean Lee

8. Stay away from me w. Sean Lee

9. Didn’t I Scrabble

ENJOY

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