CF Edley jump the beautiful lovesong and Sam Cooke covers

I hope everyone's getting hardup wet for Minorityfest 2009. Here in rainy California I like the internet. And some beautiful tracks come across on yotub. I guess without further ado:

So I don't really know about Carl Graves, or this track, Baby Hang Up The Phone, but I like to think of the intro looped, it would be a bonk junks intro beat for Das Racisdini, the upcoming companion release to Ghost's newest effort:


Moreover, it carries this post into reggae territory. It's almost inevitable that a lambsbreath-blind rhythm section and slightly off-key melodic interpretation will take an American track and give it some soul-scouring dysentery. Lloyd Parks' version does just that:

And ends with a couple minutes of silence. Which is always a hot internet move.

This one by Carlton & The Shoes, which is an amazing accidental typo name (Originally Carlton & The Shades), is kinda my new swervy fave. It really gets really amazing, in large part from the backing vocals by doods who later formed The Abbysinians, seminal vocal group. But this is a real swoony kinda sad song. Get in past your junk and stare out to sea:


I know this is a lot of stuff. But I gotta keep going.
These Ken Parker Sam Cooke covers are terrible hot. Especially the second, Change Gonna Come. His vocals are devastating. Sliding high notes so lovely. And the first cover, I'm pretty much in love with his voice and the really really lazy drumming. Slurp up the sound quality:


Ooooooofff in the nutz:


Bonk junks

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