What Is The Sample Matrix?

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Welcome to the  Sample Matrix…  We are compiling the best of the best music blogs from around the internet and essentially providing you with an unending source of great music to listen to, sample, sing along with, etc.  The Sample Matrix consists of two parts… The Left Column – Contains the latest detailed updates from a few of our favorite blogs.  Updated every hour. The Center And Right Columns – These links to the latest updates from the entire sample matrix network of blogs and websites.  This is updated live. That’s it… fire up those rapidshare accounts and get to downloading…

Booker T and the MGs – Plum Nellie

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Booker T and the MGs Listen/Download -Booker T and the MGs – Plum Nellie Greetings all. The end of another week is finally upon us. Things are so busy/topsy turvy these days that the end of the week has lost almost all meaning (other than the fact that the boys get the weekend off). It seems sometimes as if we’re lost in a blur marked by the analog “hospital/no hospital”. This is not to say that that my wife’s health situation has gotten worse, because it hasn’t, but rather that the grind of treatment and the ensuing disruption of what little routine we could depend on tends to leave us in a fog of sorts, composed of equal parts confusion, boredom and angst. That said, o

The Book of Faces

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For Anyone that missed Fraykers Revenge is on The Book Of Faces . . . . . . . . . Find Me Under The Name “Frayker Breaks” Facebook

Don Cornelius RIP

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Mr Don Cornelius Listen/Download -The Ramrods – Soul Train Pts 1&2 Listen/Download -The Rimshots – Soultrain Pts 1&2 Greetings all. I come to you on what would normally be a ‘between-posts’ day because the news came down today that the great Don Cornelius had died. Cornelius was the host of the long-running ‘Soul Train’, the premiere showcase for black music on national TV in the 70s, 80s and 90s. I spent many a Saturday morning watching the best dancers in America groove on the Soul Train line and listening to his deep, rich voice end every show with the phrase “You can bet your last money it’ll be a stone gas honey!” Cornelius got his start as an i

The Casanova II – Maybe They’re Right

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Mr Freddie Hughes Listen/Download -The Casanova II – Maybe They’re Right Greetings all. I come to you in mid week with a powerful slice of West Coast soul. The Casanova Two were a mystery to me when I picked up this 45 some years back. I added it to my keeper stack at a record show on the strength of the fact that I already had a Merl Saunders 45 on the same label, and because I was constitutionally incapable of passing up a record by a group with a name like that. I’ve always been of the opinion that most of the male duet groups that recorded in the 60s were doing so in the wake of Sam and Dave and The Casanova Two are no exception, trading lines in the style of the maste

Woody Herman and the Thundering Herd – Crosswind

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Woody, the Herd and one blazing white suit. Listen/Download -Woody Herman and the Thundering Herd – Crosswind Greetings all. Welcome to another week here at the funk ranch. I hope all is well with you and yours. I wanted to get the week started with something funky, but also a little jazzy, and then I thought “cover-y, too” so I went digging in the Funky16Corners Digital Funk Silo, plugged the coordinates into the GPS and arrived at the track you see before you today, Woody Herman’s version of ‘Crosswind’. Originally recorded (and composed) by drummer Billy Cobham in 1974 on his ‘Crosswinds’ LP, the tune is one of the finer examples of jazz funk from the era. I’ve

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