The Red Ball Express of Lovin’!
Video of the Day: Eddie Kendricks – Keep On Truckin’ Former Temptation Eddie Kendricks provides our last piece of Musical encouragement for this Week; Keep On Trckin’, Baby!
Category: Soul
You Can Make It
Song of the Day: Sly and the Family Stone – You Can Make It If You Try “Push a little harder. Think a little deeper. Don’t let the plastic bring you down.” Another beloved musical Pep Talk to help you through your week. Hang in there!
Curtis Live!
Video of the Day: Curtis Mayfield live on The Beat Club in 1970 This morning’s Curtis Mayfield Song of the Day did inspire us – to share some more Curtis Mayfield. Here, is he and his dynamite band’s complete Beat Club appearance from 1970. Beat Club was a really great music TV show from Germany …
Power of Positive Pushing
Song of the Day: The Impressions – Keep on Pushing We seem to be feeling aspirational this week at Infinite Jones so, naturally we turn to Curtis Mayfield to help us help you through the day. This is from Curtis’ and The Impressions 1964 album Keep on Pushing and it was a Civil Rights Anthem. …
Tryin’ to Get to Heaven That Way
Song of the Day: Al Green – Loving You Al Green tries to get to Heaven through music, just like we do. The “You” he is loving, though, is Jesus. This song is about as religious a we get here at Infinite Jones but, hell, if this transcendentally beautiful song doesn’t make you believe that …
Where’s Aretha?
Video of the Day: Aretha Franklin sings Bridge Over Troubled Waters at the 1971 Grammys Question: Where is Aretha on this stage? Her sisters and cousin walk out to the middle of the stage to sing back up, in front of them is an empty church pew. We see a man’s hands (probably Billy Preston’s) …
Revelations
Song of the Day: Fugi – Revelations These are the Days of Revelation! So says Fugi, and so say we, ain’t it always? Fugi is mainly the work of one Ellington Jordan a producer (for Chess Records) and songwriter (he was a co-writer of I’d Rather Go Blind). His lone album as Fugi, Mary Don’t Take …
Music in Our Bones
Song of the Day: Joe Simon – Music In My Bones Soul Singer Joe Simon has Music in his Bones and he can’t sit down. We know how he feels. This irresistible Anthem to the motivating Power of Music from his 1975 Get Down album is definitely an Infinite Jones Theme Song. Crank it up and …
Everything Gohn Be Funky!
Song of the Day: Lee Dorsey – Everything I Do Gohn Be Funky (From Now On) This nonchalantly, funky Allen Toussaint song, given life by the irrepressible Lee Dorsey, is not just a theme song but, a Manifesto for the Infinite Jones crew. It first appeared on the 1966 The New Lee Dorsey album and its’ laid …
We’ll Have What Al Green’s Having!
Video of the Day: Al Green Sings Belle live! Whatever substance Al Green used to achieve his performance here (no judgement), It really worked. Hell, it may have just been the Holy Ghost but, whatever it was, Al is Positively Ecstatic! The title track from his 1977 self-produced The Belle Album is already perfect in it’s original …