Christian McBride rants

[cannonball-addict]

Read this!

Ahh. The tales of a musician. It's a great read. He's a very good writer.

[Stefan Wood]

I love it. Somebody probably stumbled over this reissue in progress, took the credit for it, and is now digging the sand out of his beach house in the Virgin Islands, having been dumped by hurricaine Ivan.

I wonder what exactly scared JB away from making an album with CMB?

[wolff]

Pretty shady, but if the mix was done by Bob Irwin it was in very competent hands.

Many reasons Dylan let Irwin do his catalog. McBride may have never heard of him, but I'm sure he's listened to his work.

[JSngry]

So, are digging SOUL ON TOP?

[Harold_Z]

Yeah...and it's a gas.

For some reason (I can't remember why) I knew CM was involved with JB somehow. Reading this rant somehow didn't come as a complete surprise.

As usual...the music biz sux.

Soul On Top: It's a gas. I missed this the first time around (maybe I thought it would be jive for some reason back when it first came out - WRONG) and I have a pretty sizeable JB collection and have been buying JB since the early 60s. I grabbed the reissue. The Jim Sangrey Blindfold test hipped me to the THAT'S MY DESIRE track and led me to the BALLADS cd. More good stuff. I've always dug JB doing PRISONER OF LOVE. I have it on 45.

A couple of other related cds I've grabbed recently are the JAMES BROWN'S FUNKY PEOPLE things. So far I have Volumes 1 and 3. OH YEAH !!!!!! SMOKIN', BURNIN', GROOVIN' and any other good thing you want to say about these.