Jordy’s excellent post on the Wurlitzer electric piano inspired me to post a few of my favorite songs that feature various electric pianos. Click the album titles to buy the referenced albums.
Stevie Wonder -”Higher Ground” from Innervisions (1973)
Featuring Stevie Wonder on the Hohner Clavinet and every other instrument in the song. Seriously, he plays everything.
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Entries from July 2009
July 31, 2009
More Electric Pianos
July 29, 2009
Wurlitzer piano favorites
Few instruments play melancholia like the famed Wurlitzer Electronic Piano. Its touching tremolo is often overlooked but always critical to whatever tune employs it. Here are a few of my favorite examples:
-Neil Young – “See the Sky About to Rain” from On the Beach (1974) [buy]
Neil brings the piano to the center of [...]
July 27, 2009
“I don’t know karate, but I know ka-razy”
I’ve been listening to a shit-ton of James Brown lately and have been captivated by Brown’s on-record bandleading. While the grooves are lean and funky, Brown improvises widely and effortlessly above it all, calling out horn breaks and bridges to his band. “The Payback” is a great example of how the Godfather worked his craft [...]
July 24, 2009
a little more Curtis
A while back, I mentioned that I thought Curtis Mayfield an unsung musical genius. Turns out the man is plenty sung, not least by Kayne West, who sampled Mayfield’s excellent “Move On Up” in his less-excellent-though-still-good “Touch The Sky”:
Curtis Mayfield – “Move On Up” from Curtis (1970)
Kayne West – “Touch The Sky (feat. Lupe Fiasco)” [...]
July 22, 2009
“I can and well just might turn you on”
Funkadelic – “Funky Dollar Bill” from Free Your Mind…And Your Ass Will Follow (1970)
Funkadelic – “Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On” from Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On (1974)
Funkadelic was batshit crazy. And it wasn’t just George Clinton: his top-notch sidemen and singers were as into the weird as the Supreme [...]
July 21, 2009
This may well be the dorkiest song ever posted to this blog
Sting – “Fields Of Gold” from Ten Summoner’s Tales (1993)
On Sunday evening, I was driving through west Michigan and scanning through radio stations when this song came on. I had spent a wonderful weekend with old friends; the sun was setting over rolling soybean and corn fields (no barley, far as I could tell); the [...]
July 8, 2009
One of the best bass lines ever
“Afternoon Tea” by the Kinks from Something Else (1967)
Come to think of it, every single track on this album is worth its own post. I’m just sayin’, is all.
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July 8, 2009
“So much beauty and just enough time to figure out how to destroy it”
Drive-By Truckers – “The Opening Act” from Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (2008)
I’m a little late to hop on the Drive-By Truckers Mechanical Bull Ride, which is too bad, because they used to play down here in Greensboro on a fairly regular basis. While their latest album is not nearly perfect, this song is.
“The Opening Act” [...]
