The Supper Table

I recently responded to a Facebook chain focused on sharing 10 essential albums from the past. I decided to create a mix limited just to those 10 albums. They are: Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star De La Soul Buhloone Mindstate Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life Nina Simone Little Girl Blue Charles Mingus Ah Um Roberta Flack First Take This Mortal Coil The Clash Combat Rock Duke Ellington Money Jungle Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band (This was one of the first albums my mother ever bought me. I loved dancing to it in our living room. Now I'm working to overcome that feeling in the pit of my stomach. This song doesn't help. ) The Supper Table Episode 6 First Course Badfoot Brown I Love you Camille Black Star KOS/Respiration The Clash Straight to Hell De La Soul Egotrippin Stevie Wonder Village Ghettoland Charles Mingus Boogie Stop Shuffle Nina Simone Plain Gold Ring T...

For Episode 5 I return to my usual formless form with another mix of beautiful music paired with a roulade of Shuggie Otis cuts. The Supper Table Episode 5 Digable Planets For Corners Shuggie Otis Island Letter St. Etienne I Can’t Sleep Liz Phair Shattered Stevie Wonder You and I Cannonball Adderly Dis Here Shuggie Otis Aht Uh Mi Hed Yasin Gaye (Amerigo Gazaway) Sex, Love, & Money Noname Shadow Man Nick Drake Three Hours Mick Jenkins Comfortable Ibeyi Away Away The Afrosound Fiebre en la Jungla Sly & the Family Stone We Love All Shuggie Otis Oxford Gray Nina Simone Ne Me Quitte Pas Al Green Your Love Is Like the Morning Sun Mayda del Valde & J Dilla To All the Boys I Loved Before Moodyman Misled Tricky Hard Times (Quengo Remix) Tiombe Lockhart O Bloody Days, O starry nights on the bo...

I’ve been lying to myself for a few days about why I’m late with this post. I’d been telling myself that it was because I needed to concentrate on finishing the second part of my Russiagate take. The two things are mutually exclusivish, I finished the piece with enough time. The difficulty has been the substance of the episode. I’d originally planned on a Jazzish, Funkish, Soulish episode (as if that’s not what I always do) I was moved by the recent discovery of so many performances I didn’t realize were on Youtube, and their effect on my memory of beginning as a college radio station jazz DJ. After arriving at 3Xs the records I needed while considering other records still needed, I decided to focus just on jazz. There's something about focusing on a single genre that leaves me with the feeling that I need to be comprehensive in ways that my usual rando eclectic style does not. Once I recognized the paralyzing effect of approaching the episode like that allowed me to employ my...