Entries from April 2006

09/04/2006

Black Satin Amazon Fire Engine Cry Baby 9 April 06

Kain- The Blue Guerrilla has been re-issued, it was spotted by my radar, and procured yesterday.
This is a really special record to me.
Gylan Kain, founding member of The Last Poets, achieves “legend” in my opinion with this debut solo recording.
Kain finds himself, “the Griot”, precursor and father of the so-called “conscious rapper” at the crossroads…of [...]

03/04/2006

Joni Mitchell:Heart of a Prairie Girl *interview* 3 April 2006

Heart of a Prairie Girl
by Mary Aikins
At 61, Joni Mitchell has no plans to write more music. For her legions of admirers – indeed devotees – across Canada and around the world, this is bad news. The good Joni is alive and well and very busy in her Los Angeles and Sechelt, B.C., homes, painting [...]

02/04/2006

“Slow Down Homie…It’s all Good” 2 April 2006

another flick of the man called, “NIHO“
I’ve been damn near invisible up in this piece,huh?
To my 6 daily readers…I’m sorry (I’ve been cheating over on myspace…how much blogging can one do, actually?)
This is always home (I know,I know…I haven’t changed the “Scrub of the Week” in a minute), and the honeymoon is sort of over. [...]