Hello, kiddies.

The latest installment of AntiDivas is now up and ready for your consumption. In making this one, I was forced to take on the task of eliminating several selections. No surprise there… Here’s just a few from the cutting room floor for you to enjoy.

Here’s one of my all time favourite jazz sides from the legendary Nancy Wilson. The bossa nova groove sold me from the first time I dropped the needle on it some ten years ago. The LP quality here is just a little under par (I ripped it from the original first press monaural – I like ‘em better that way sometimes), but thankfully the folks at Blue Note have reissued this long out of print classic after some four decades.

Please download and enjoy Moon River, an .mp3 file, 2 MB.

Next up is the other track from that Fanny LP I told you about. I first heard this one on a 45 several years ago thanks to the Hudson Brothers. I doubt that many of you may remember back when the USA Network was just a fledgling of a cable channel. Well, they had a music program called Night Flight which ran back in 1984 if memory serves me correctly. It was there that I first saw this band via one of those ultra rare appearances from the Beat Club (Someone’s gotta put all of that stuff on DVD someday)… I went on a loose search to find some of their stuff which led me to a couple of albums. This is the best track of them all in my honest opinion.

 

Please download and enjoy Place In The Country, an .mp3 file, 4 MB.
If you’re a collector of box sets, Rhino Handmade issued a limited edition set containing the complete recorded works of this early femme rock outfit. It’s a little pricy at $90 USD, and since I don’t have much else to judge it on, I can only say that it is out there if you dare to explore. Otherwise, the LPs are quite a bit cheaper if you can find them.

This last one is just an all out ballsy 45 from blues legend Sugar Pie DeSanto that I picked up a few weeks back. I like it in bunches, so here we go…

Please download and enjoy Soulful Dress, an.mp3 file, 3 MB. As luck would have it, there’s a pretty decent comp CD containing more treasures from the Chess years out there too…

Well, that’s it for today. I’m all set to burn some more coals and get dinner started. I’ve got a couple of surprises in store for next time so y’all come back now, y’hear?

Peace and blessings.