Funky Floor Shakers & Solid Soul Senders
July 17, 2007
Like many people, I love a wide variety of music. Everything from the bone chilling, high lonesome vocals of bluegrass pioneer Ralph Stanley to the sacred steel sound of the Campbell Brothers to the Memphis soul of O.V. Wright to the big southern sounds of My Morning Jacket and the organic, instrument driven hip hop of K-OS.
As wide ranging as that short list is, there is one common thread that connects them all. There is a soulfulness and authenticity that courses through all of these artists. They are products of their time and place. They are not manufactured by Hollywood or some New York publicist or record label executive.
This is the kind of music that moves me. It should sound like it has been dragged through the dirt a little bit. It’s got to have the grit and the grease. I have to feel it in the heart, the gut or the groin.
Who are the artists that move you in a similar way?
The best music is pure emotion. Like yourself Scott I enjoy raw, rootsy hard edged music. Lucinda, Muddy, RL Burnside are some of my favs. The Kings of Leon, Lucero and The Campbell Brothers are other fairly new artists that I really dig.
When you coming home for a visit Dude?