Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Sound Just like Akon. And T-Pain. And Everybody Else.

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

So you’re music mogul wannabe teenager wants to make a million real quick to pay for college? Well, since everyone else with no real talent seems to be doing it, your kid might as well too. Help him get there with the one essential item of modern recording - Auto Tune - the pitch correcting software that gives everybody and their momma with a recording contract his or her signature sound. Just do it quick. Hopefully it will play itself out soon.

$319
Guitar Center

The Roots of Soul

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008


MALACO Music never gained the kind of broad mystique of Motown, Stax or Chess Records. And certainly Jackson, Mississippi doesn’t  carry the musical weight fo Detroit, Chicago or MEmphis. Nevertheless, Malaco’s impact on the origins of souls are equally powerful. Bobby Blue Bland, King Floyd, ZZ Hill, Johnny Taylor, Little Milton, G.C. Cameron, Dorothy Moore (”Misty Blue”), and later Anita Ward of “Ring My Bell” fame all made their way into Malaco along with a whole host of characters who look like your great Uncle Willie.

The Last Soul Company is a 6-CD compilation of heart wrenching, soul-stirring gutbucket music that is responsible for the baby boom in the South for the last 30 years. You may not know the names of the artists, but you’ve heard the sounds. Now you can own them.

$75.

Malaco Music