Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different artist each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. “I’m a-talk about marriage for a little bit,” said the late bluesman Eddie Kirkland, and after 50 years on the circuit playing with John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding, Mr. Kirkland knew plenty what he was talking about. On “Why Can’t I Be Your Backdoor Man Instead,” Kirkland professed to not be first mate material, preferring the easy-come/easy-go spontaneity of being the dude on the side. “Why Can’t I Be Your Backdoor Man Instead” appears on the posthumous Kirkland album Pick Up the Pieces, a collection of live and unreleased tracks.
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Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different genre each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. One might think soul songs as stirring as “The World (Is Going Up In Flames)” stopped being made after Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin’ On.” Au contraire. In Charles Bradley’s hardened hands, “The World” — a “who’s gonna take the weight” search for a savior for this dangerous planet — is a tempestuous rallying cry for responsibility and understanding. Backed by The Menahan Street Band and released on Dunham Records (an affiliate of Daptone, the home of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and The Budos Band), Bradley’s passionate testimonial gets soul aficionados sighing "They don’t make ‘em like that anymore" in reverie. “The World (Is Going Up In Flames)” appears on Charles Bradley’s new album, No Time For Dreaming.
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This Australian trio play a fiery, type of blues-inspired roots music that makes the whole genre feel as lively as it did oh-so-many years ago back at the crossroads. “You Gotta Go” is a bottle-neck slide-fueld groover taken from their self-titled album. If you like this song, check out the the full-length album.
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