Can't you see I'm in misery....

Wardell Quezergue died yesterday morning. A beautiful person...sweet, kind, totally humble. The world is truly diminished without him.

There are simply too many songs I could post. Actually quite a few I've already posted.

One of my fave Quezergue productions, "Patty Cake Shake" by Guitar Ray, has just been posted over at Jukeboxmafia. The link to my rip of that 45 is long dead so ya'll should just head on over there and pick it up.

The link to my copy of "Funky Soul Train" by Robert Parker continues to be active [still the only copy of that record I've ever seen]. It's another great Quezergue production. You can find it here. [Fyi, all Quezergue produced Parker sides can all be found on the comp "The Wardell Quezergue Sessions", a collection I consider essential]

While I'm at it, here's a link to my post of Parker's "Soul Sister" and another to Willie Harper's version of "A Certain Girl". Both relatively hard to find. Quezergue is listed as "Big Q" on the Harper 45.

Oh yeah, before I forget, you can find Raymond Parker's "Ring Around the Roses", here. It too is a Quezergue production.

The side I'm posting today is the b-side of "Soul Train" by Curley Moore.....but not off the same 45 I used when I posted "Soul Train" some time ago [it can be found here]. This is a Nola label pressing....which has a different b-side than the Hotline pressings.

Anyway, this isn't necessarily a "greatest hit", in fact it hardly ever gets spins. Which probably only means it's not quite as killer as it's flip side, but it's def got it's points. I actually like it a lot or I wouldn't bother to post it. Someone else must like it too because it's been comped on the terrific collection "Wardell Quezergue: Sixty Smokin' Soul Senders". If you don't have a copy of that comp you absolutely should check it out.

I'll wait and see what other bloggers pull out of their crates before I post anything else. I could run with this particular tribute a good long while.....and to good purpose.

Hope ya'll enjoy....

Baby get filthy!

By my count, these two sides are the 299th and 300th vinyl rips I've made from my collection and offered on the blog. Not too bad for 18 months of posting.

Sometime last spring I was looking for a copy of the comp called "Get Low Down!", specifically because it includes a couple of unreleased tracks by Bobby LaCour. Now, the comp is out of print, and at least when I was looking for it the only copy I could find was priced at over $70, which is waaay more than I'm going to pay for a two CD set. I mean jeeze, I can buy myself a really nice 45 for that much. [In fact, that's about what I paid for the rarest 45 included in the collection]

Luckily a very generous blog reader came to my rescue. When I finally listened to it I was a little shocked, because ya see I'd never heard the comp before, and not only is "Get Low Down!" one of the two best collections of Toussaint productions ever gathered together, but beyond that I'd already posted so many of the included tunes that my readers could be forgiven for thinking I was using the collection as a buying guide. Which obviously I wasn't.

Is there a point to this story? Not really. Just my long winded way of introducing this 45, which is of course the record from which the title of the comp derives. Those of you who own "Get Low Down!" clearly don't need a copy of the 45, but since when did that ever stop me before.

Seems an appropriate choice for cracking the 300 mark. Hope ya'll enjoy...

Get Low Down Pt1.

Get Low Down Pt2.

[I've more or less decided not to do memorials anymore, but I would like to dedicate this one to Renetta Lowe, aka Magnolia Shorty, who was murdered about 10 days ago. WTF New Orleans.]

Whose rubber band?

According to Eddie Bo, Curley Moore had little or nothing to do with this 45.

So, if this isn't a Curley Moore record, then what is it? Well, it's the cheapest and easiest to find of all Eddie Bo related funk jams.

Oh yeah, it's also a blatant attempt to pay-off [or pay back] Shelley Pope, a local New Orleans DJ. Notice the BS production and writing credits, not to mention the title of the cut.

Hope ya enjoy..

Music pouring out like rain...

I've owned this record for some time; long enough for it to get shuffled to the back of the stack at least once. It happens. Even with records you really love.

Last weekend, a friend in Austin was playing the hell out of his newly acquired copy....and I noticed every single time it hit the turntable, I got chills. Yep, this record has that kind of effect on me. I think it's absolutely gorgeous.

So, before it gets over-played around the house once again, I figure I should post it.

Think of it as a kiss blown in the wind, to all of you out there.