Simple answer for me:
Betty Harris - There's A Break In The Road
Killer vocals. Meters on the instruments. Guitar feedback at the beginning. A Perfect song in my book.
And on that note, the Cyril Neville issue 45 is serious business. Both sides are killing it.
werd, that cyril nevill is my shizz. Killer! Where is the LP from that session?!
Earlier this year me and my girl went to the Ponderosa Stomp, which is this music fest that happens (or happened, Nahlins RIP) in the middle of jazz fest at this bowling alley, with 2 floors of music going on. Known a bit more in the vintage soul/RnB/rockabilly scene, they had a lot of old school local cats throwing down. Got to see Willie Tee doing 'Gatur Bait', Archie Bell and the Drells, a bunch of folks, but who really stole the show was Betty Harris. She sounded great, did a smoking version of 'Mean Man', etc. Zigaboo was playing later on the bill, and with both Ziggy and Betty Harris in the same room, both me and my girl were like, fuck, we're actually going to hear Break in the Road with Zig on drums! But she did the song with the normal backing band (which was dope, not complaining too much), while Zig was chilling in the audience. We were like Noooo!!!
How can you do break in the road with Zig standing on the sidelines?! That's his fucking song right there. It was still dope tho.
They're temporarily moving it to memphis this year, here's the link
http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=7679
definitely worth a look. Agent 45, Mr. Finewine, Soul Sister, many heads in the house.
and a fav 45 of mine:
sister funk
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