HUM ART MDA CH Chris Just Writes #BMM30 Day 10 — The mid 80s were the perfect days to “Set It Off” As the post-disco hybrid feel of Electro-Funk and Boogie began to evolve by 1984, a lot of that had to do with the burgeoning House music…
HUM MDA CH Chris Just Writes #BMM30 Day 8 — Funk lives in Dayton, Ohio When you think of the capitals of certain kinds of music, hotbeds of R&B and Funk are almost always New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia…
MDA CH Chris Just Writes #BMM30 Day 7 — #PrinceDay bop — “Lady Cab Driver” We’ll be back tomorrow with some more substantial thoughts on Black Music Month, but for now, I’ll share the Prince song I keep coming back…
HUM MDA CH Chris Just Writes #BMM30 Day 6 — Bobby still gets it done 25 years later Bobby Brown had effectively beat the sophomore jinx in 1988 with the timeless New Jack Swing album Don’t Be Cruel and raised his profile…
HUM MDA CH Chris Just Writes #BMM30 Day 5 — Girl, you Nasty — Betty Davis was ahead of her time Sometimes a musician or artist might be a bit too far ahead of their time, forcing their work to be re-examined and given more critical…
SPT MDA ECO CH Chris Just Writes #BMM30 Day 4 — Shaqtin’ a fool on the mic Shaquille O’Neal, just about six years into retirement, is now known as the humorous, Simon Cowell-esque judge of NBA centers on TNT’s…
HUM AI MDA CH Chris Just Writes #BMM30 Day 3 — Earl Young was Disco’s heartbeat — and drum beat The culture of Disco in the mid and late 1970s was a spectacle, a movement and an era all its own — a dance-friendly genre of music that…
ART HUM MDA CH Chris Just Writes #BMM30 Day 2 — Sister Rosetta was the Mother to Rock N’ Roll’s style Black women have been ahead of trends forever, it seems — fashion, beauty, music, you name it.
HUM MDA CH Chris Just Writes Intro to #BMM30 102 — Black Music Month Forever June is Black Music Month.