![]() Tony Joe White, "Willie and Laura Mae Jones," Black and White, RCA Victor, 1969.Elvis Presley, "Polk Salad Annie," On Stage, RCA Victor, 1970.The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, "I Can See Everybody's Mother," Golden Gospel Classics, Sonorous, 2016.Chaka Khan, "Like Sugar," single, Diary, 2018.HotLips Messiah, " Let’s Go Swimming at the Waste Treatment Plant".Chance The Rapper, " The Man Who Has Everything".Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers, " I Hate Chicago".Greg also has a much longer mixtape for 2018. Jim's mixtape was inspired by gentrification's impact on artists and their communities, particularly in our home base of Chicago. This year, Greg's mixtape is called "Undone", because of the sense of "collective anxiety" that keeps cropping up in popular music. MixtapesĪs 2018 comes to a close, Jim and Greg tackle the timeless art of making a mixtape featuring their favorite songs from the past year. Jim plays " Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" in tribute. After working with Brown, he went on the play with BB King and in a group with Stubblefield called the Funkmasters. Before joining Brown's band, Starks played in Bobby Bland's blues band. Starks and drummer Clyde Stubblefield worked in tandem in Brown's band, with Starks holding down the backbeat and Stubblefield adding more funky flourishes. One of James Brown's drummers, Jabo Starks, died in May at 79 years old. In addition to his classic recordings with Elvis, Fontana also worked with Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton and Steve Earle. Fontana played drums for Elvis Presley over 14 years and appears on more than 450 recordings with "The King." He also died in June of this year at 87 years old. Jim credits his understated, simple style with making the band's overall psychobilly spectacle work.ĭ.J. The Cramps lost their leader, Lux Interior, a few years ago, but their drummer Nick Knox died in June at 60 years old. Jim remembers spending a 12 hour day with the band for a story and seeing through their tough on-stage persona. ![]() The Texas heavy metal band was founded by Paul and his brother, " Dimebag Darrell" Abbott in 1981, but really broke through with the 1990 album Cowboys From Hell. Jim devotes his memorials to drummers we lost this year, starting with Pantera's Vinnie Paul, who died in June at 54 years old. ![]() Greg says the song " Willie and Laura Mae Jones" from 1969's Black and White album is a great example of this. Greg says his way of depicting Southern life showed more nuance than most, especially when it came to race relations. ![]() Greg also memorializes Tony Joe White, the " swamp rock" singer-songwriter whose songs were hits for Elvis Presley, Brook Benton and Tina Turner. They were known for whipping their audiences into a frenzy of spiritual ecstasy, and Greg says you can hear that in the live recording of " I Can See Everybody’s Mother" that was released by Chicago's Vee-Jay label in the late 1940s. He credits the Blind Boys' "house wrecking" style of gospel as an unsung ingredient in early rock and roll (along with country and blues). Greg starts with Clarence Fountain, the leader of The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, who died in June at the age of 88. We pay tribute to some of the musicians who died this year, but didn't get a proper tribute before. Audio player Download Subscribe via iTunes In Memoriam
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