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Sony days... #flashbackfriday #fbt #2003 thanks to @tineoarts for digging this one up ...

#2003 #flashbackfriday #fbt

Classic Album Of The Day: Prince "Around The World In A Day" How to follow up a career benchmark album, movie and live tour like 'Purple Rain'? Who the hell knows? Prince was wise enough to know you don't try to replicate that kind of success with a 'Purple Rain' sound-a-like. Besides, none of his first eight or nine albums ever sounded exactly like the one before it. Every album in that first decade evolved in sound and vision. Similarly, 'Around The World In A Day' musically went psychedelically left. Still masterful and eclectic, if a tiny bit harder to embrace immediately. Not thematic except perhaps musically, it's a collection of lyrically diverse gems that work well together nonetheless, as life lessons learned from the superstardom he had achieved. He has explained that 'Paisley Park' was about striving to find the perfection we all have within ourselves - even if attaining perfection is impossible. For him the goal of trying for perfection was what mattered. A message he must've understood and believed much more deeply after the supersonic success of 'Purple Rain'. If you've never heard it, 'Around The World' sounded strangely familiar and yet equally strangely off-putting when it was released with no fanfare (and you thought Bey did it first) and no single in April of 1985. The album opened with a psychedelic pop-funk feel on side one that immediately drew listeners in, only to then challenge their expectations on side two with a set of tracks that were less easily referenced or even understood. A month after the album appeared 'Raspberry Beret' was released as the first single, 'Pop Life' the second, and 'America' third. At this point Prince could write a whole album of near genius level radio ready hit singles but that would be boring. He likes to keep us guessing, and thinking so the first two singles were respectable Top Forty hits that help sell the album in multi millions of units. The rest of the set revolved around head scratching joints that resonated only after repeated listens. But once they sunk in the magic of Prince never failed to captivate our hearts and minds. Top tracks: the whole damn thang... #BBSCAOTD

#bbscaotd

Bessie #jazzmaster #femalevocalist #bluessinger #blackhistorymonth #BHM2016 #day16

#bluessinger #jazzmaster #femalevocalist #blackhistorymonth #day16 #bhm2016

Classic Album Of The Day: Cannonball Adderley "Something Else" Spending the weekend with my parents Earl and Gloria is always a treasure trove of photos and music. Sometimes it's like bookending my life now living away from them. Meaning, I have music that has influenced and moved me throughout my adult life that I've discovered, but they, my folks, have the music from my childhood that set me on my life-long musical love affair. Sometimes I don't even know what those albums are until I rediscover them as an adult. Such is the case with "Something Else" from Cannonball Adderley. Featuring the likes of Miles Davis and Art Blakey it is an album that perfectly inhibits my dad Earl's philosophy about what makes music great: "It must be pleasing to the ear.", says he often. The flowing sounds from both Davis and Adderley - really the whole quintet actually - lay on the ear like a silk glove, embodying that definition definitively. The grooves swing sweet and hot with a taking-your-time kind of ease and confidence. These songs played randomly around me through most of my life, but until I realized where I first heard it I never knew why they felt like old friends, but they were and still are today. Every track all day.... #BBSCAOTD

#bbscaotd

Vanity. She really did change the game. I met her once when I was 25. She told me I had a dirty mind.... #vanity #vanity6 #denisematthews #restinpeace

#restinpeace #denisematthews #vanity6 #vanity

Home again.... #backinnyc #traintrip #icecold #winter2016 #backfromearlandglorias #theonehundredlivesofbillbrown

#winter2016 #backinnyc #icecold #traintrip #backfromearlandglorias #theonehundredlivesofbillbrown

Winter window view from my train. Frozen river... #snowfall #frozen #winter2016 #icecold #traintrip #theonehundredlivesofbillbrown

#frozen #winter2016 #icecold #snowfall #traintrip #theonehundredlivesofbillbrown

Winter window view from my train. Frozen river... #snowfall #frozen #winter2016 #icecold #traintrip #theonehundredlivesofbillbrown

#frozen #winter2016 #icecold #snowfall #traintrip #theonehundredlivesofbillbrown

Snow is falling... Winter window on my train back home. #winter2016 #snow #snowfall #traintrip #presidentsday

#winter2016 #traintrip #snow #snowfall #presidentsday

Jeffrey Blount speaks for me in today's Washington Post. "The Slave Father Of My Country" Read the whole article at WashingtonPost.com. Thanks to @earl_brownie_2 for pointing out the piece. #blackhistorymonth #theslavefatherofmycountry #slavesbuiltthisland #day15 #jeffreyblount #washingtonpost

#jeffreyblount #washingtonpost #slavesbuiltthisland #blackhistorymonth #day15 #theslavefatherofmycountry

Personal Black History... My Mom is the second from the left squinting into the sun with the Sailor suit and the thick braids. Behind her all the way left and a bit taller is my Aunt Doris also with a sailor cap on and a rather serious look on her face. They are lined up with other girls from Plainfield's YMCA's girls tap dance class. This was a photo of one of many recitals they had. My mom was around 12 or 13... In the 1930's. blackhistorymonth #mymom #gloria #earlandgloria #BHM2016 #tapdancerecital #day14

#bhm2016 #day14 #tapdancerecital #mymom #earlandgloria #gloria

When you think a 'reflection' selfie would be the coolest thing ever, and then you realize your reflection is on someone's right butt cheek. #um #buttcheekselfie #theonehundredlivesofbillbrown

#um #theonehundredlivesofbillbrown #buttcheekselfie

Been riding this subway since I was 13...when it opened. #unionstationdc #subway #ontheroadagain #therents #visiting #earlandgloria #dcmetro #theonehundredlivesofbillbrown

#dcmetro #ontheroadagain #visiting #unionstationdc #therents #subway #earlandgloria #theonehundredlivesofbillbrown

Ok, How Much Do I Love This Woman Right Here? I'm sorry, but music women creatively are kicking men's asses.They slay. This one right here is fire.... 🔥🔥🔥#seinabosey #mycurrentmusiccrush #pretend #whycomenobodytoldme #somebodyshouldatoldme @seinabosey

#whycomenobodytoldme #seinabosey #pretend #mycurrentmusiccrush #somebodyshouldatoldme

Miss Lena. #blackhistorymonth #vocalist #actress #activist #pioneerwoman #lenahorne #legendary #stormyweather #cabininthesky #BHM2016 #day13

#pioneerwoman #cabininthesky #bhm2016 #actress #activist #blackhistorymonth #legendary #day13 #stormyweather #lenahorne #vocalist

"Margaret Garner" 1867 pencil on paper By Thomas Satterwhite Noble Runaway slave Margaret Garner along with her husband and four children were caught in Cincinnati. Garner, rather than have them returned to slavery, stabbed all four children in an attempt to kill them. One child died. The remaining children, her husband and Garner were returned to bondage. #blackhistorymonth #BHM2016 #margaretgarner #runawayslaves #artwork #thomassatterwhite #day12

#day12 #bhm2016 #blackhistorymonth #margaretgarner #artwork #runawayslaves #thomassatterwhite

I can't stop posting her... @emilykingmusic #sogood #jeremymost #emilyking #theconanshow

#theconanshow #emilyking #jeremymost #sogood

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