Sweeet soul

Gotta love how Soul music makes songs about the deepest pains sound so sweet. Anyway. The song above is Raphael Saadiq's cover of a 70's Spinners tune co-written by Stevie Wonder (as you can see there's some Stevie-ish kind of chord progressions). I think Raphael Saadiq uses the original Spinner's vocal (or at least uses a falsetto very close to the original) into the bridge - which I quite like.

Saadiq's most recent album, the way i see it, is definitely worth checking out! Really awesome vintagey-old-school-recorded-straight-to-tape kind of sound.

Hm, I think I'm going to press play again! So catchy!

#2

This is a soul-jazz-groove joint by American-singer-songwriter Emily King. Again, really, really nice sounding - but quite sad. But jeepers it's gorgeous. Lots of gorgeous vocal harmonies, a bass heavy, slightly latin go-go drum beat, strings and glockenspiels and a spindly upright piano that has probably seen better days. It's off her new EP "Seven" (it's only 7 USD - so there's no excuse not to buy it!).