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Last night I got back to my house at 3AM. The party was fun, but was really just a pregame to watch the end of my TiVo’d copy of Ray, the 2004 film starring Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles. One of the best things about Ray is the catchy Jamie Foxx covers of Ray Charles songs. For those of you who haven’t seen the film, Ray Charles is portrayed as combining gospel melodies with blues lyrics and aesthetics. So I’m on a little bit of a gospel kick hence this week’s show is LA’s premier hip gospel group, The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers.
It’s hard out here, trying to stay occupied and informed without the steady stream of new, free, diverse, and predominantly bangin’ live music that Wesleyan usually affords us on a more-than-weekly basis. I sometimes feel like I’ve come home from a playdate at Diddy’s house, and summer break has a difficult time keeping up. That’s not to say that there aren’t cool things going on in the outside world- it’s just hard to beat the volume of and accessibility to new music at Wes. One cool new thing I would mention is a band called Cherry Glazerr that I would like to show some love to- hit the jump!
What did your parents listen to when you were young? Or maybe this will resonate with you a little more: what songs did your parents drive you insane with because they wouldn’t stop playing them?
