Double Double
The Staple Singers - This May Be the Last Time / The Final Solution -I Don't Care
Hello internet pals of music. Today’s a swampy, spacey early Staples Singers gospel, and a lesser known soundtrack cut from 1970s film, Brotherman, in continuation with Black History Month.
Gotta level with you.
I feel bad as hell. First off, we all know Black History Month is a short shrift that Chris Rock / Nat X reminded us of: 28 days.
And as fate would deal, the hand I got this month to even highlight this was stacked, not in my favour. Work, that bullshit exchange we all grudgingly take part in, has had me all tied up. Working at night, outside of work. And I got sick. I had such big hope for February. So to end this week (and so I can get back to work and hit these deadlines), I’m letting the music stand in for whatever nonsense words I could manage to string together. And you get two of them.
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This is an early Staple Singer cut. Spacemen 3 (or really, Jason Spaceman) wishes they could’ve recorded this, as much as they tried. The reverb on the vocals at the end is haunting, and wrap the whole song up like the peaceful acceptance of one’s last breath and knowing they earned their great reward.
I’ve never seen Brotherman. Can’t tell you a thing about it, except this soundtrack is right of its moment, inspired for sure by the pioneering scores by Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield (peace be upon him). In fact, the movie never got completed, so no one can really tell you about it, I guess.
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