FREE TRACK TUESDAY! Exactly Like You

Guess what day of the week it is (don't read title)? Do you know what that means? It's another FREE TRACK TUESDAY!

Today's free track is entitled, Exactly Like You, and it comes from the 2009 release,

The Preservation Hall Hot 4: St. Peter Street Serenade

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The Preservation Hall Hot 4: St. Peter Street Serenade is available EXCLUSIVELY on iTunes for $3.99

Track listing:
1. Exactly Like You
The Preservation Hall Hot 4 featuring guest vocalists Clint Maedgen and Topsy Chapman.

2. I’ll Fly Away
The Preservaiton Hall Hot 4 featuring guest vocalists Clint Maedgen, Topsy Chapman, Jolynda Phillips and Yolanda Windsay

3. St. James Infirmary
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, as led by John Brunious, Jr. and remixed by noted Philadelphia DJ and producer King Britt (Sister Gertrude, Digable Planets) and Preservation Hall Creative Director Ben Jaffe.

4. I’m Alone Because I Love You
The Preservation Hall Hot 4 featuring Clint Maedgen

5. Le Petit Fleur
The Preservation Hall Hot 4 featuring the late Ralph Johnson on clarinet

*3 great music videos and a digital booklet are included with the iTunes purchase

6. St. James Infirmary (Animated Music Video)

7. Complicated Life (Music Video)

8. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (Music Video)

About The Preservation Hot 4: St. Peter Street Serenade
Following in the tradition of our 1996 recording, The Preservation Hall Hot 4 with Harold “Duke” Dejan, St. Peter Street Serenade is a collection of five small-arrangement performances of traditional jazz selections featuring vocalist Clint Maedgen and a variety of special guests. Embracing the new era of the independent online release, Preservation Hall Recordings has decided to make this very special package available for digital download only. Available exclusively from iTunes, these five tracks are available individually or as part of a package that includes the brand-new animated music video for “St. James Infirmary,” as well as the very popular videos for “Complicated Life” and “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.”

PURCHASE ST. PETER STREET SERENADE HERE

Just announced: Lecture & Demo with King Britt to kick off the Sister Gertrude Experience at the CAC!

Thursday, January 27 at 7:30 
LECTURE AND DEMO WITH KING BRITT
To kick off the weekend of shows, Britt will lecture on his experiences in the music industry through the lens of a career spanning touring with the Grammy-award winning Digable Planets in 1992 to connecting with the legacy of Sister Gertrude, New Orleans' folk art icon in 2004 to his recent work scoring films and TV shows including Michael Mann's Miami Vice. Free Admission. Cash Bar. 

Sister Gertrude photograph by Sylvia de Swaan

King Britt brings The Sister Gertrude Experience to the CAC in New Orleans! (01.28.11 & 01.29.11)

Photograph of Sister Gertrude Morgan by Sylvia de Swaan

In 2005, Philadelphia-based DJ and Producer King Britt released a sonic re-interpretation of the 1968 recordings of Sister Gertrude Morgan. Remastered just two years earlier by Ben Jaffe of Preservation Hall, the re-release of these long-forgotten tracks had caused quite a stir in the gospel world. Sister Gertrude had been lauded for years as a seminal figure in the Outsider or Folk Art scene. Now, at long last, her voice and proto-gospel spiritual call were available to the public once again. 

Please join us in welcoming King Britt and the Sister Gertrude project back to New Orleans on Friday, January 28th and Saturday, January 29th at the CAC.  The cycle of ten songs that is "Sister Gertrude" mixes gospel hymns with funk and soul melodies and Britt's deep percussive beats. The live ensemble includes King Britt on turntables and samplers, Tim Motzer on guitar, Chuck Treece on drums, Mark Boyce on keyboards and Barry Meehan on bass, as a full multimedia performance, featuring live video mixing by the Absent Productions VJ crew.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION! 

King Britt's Sister Gertrude Morgan Remix featured in The Oxford American

This month, The Oxford American dedicated their music issue to the "Magnificent Variety of Musical Superstars from the State of Alabama."  Included in the list and accompanying CD: King Britt's 2005 remix album featuring the recorded work of Sister Gertrude Morgan.  


Check out this great review of the issue and accompanying CD on sync.arkansas.com!

The Oxford American tackles Alabama Music
Magazine's Southern Music CD No. 12 focuses on state's musical heritage. 
By Shea Stewart

LITTLE ROCK — When someone as famous as Charlie Louvin — one half of harmonizing The Louvin Brothers — says, "Let's start jammin'," it's time to jam. The spoken-word intro kicks off The Oxford American's Southern Music CD No. 12, a collection of 27 tunes featuring a "magnificent variety of musical superstars from the state of Alabama." And it does jam — in it's own weird way.
This is the second year the CD that accompanies The Oxford American's Music Issue (out Wednesday) focuses on the musical heritage of one Southern state in particular. The inaugural year Arkansas was the focus, and this year, OA editor Marc Smirnoff and company chose the Heart of Dixie for their musical exploration. The 27 tracks are either produced in Alabama, or written and performed by native Alabamians. (The actual Music Issue will also include a special editorial section with articles dedicated to the musicians and tunes on the album.)

Alabama doesn't have the rich musical history of a Memphis, New Orleans or Mississippi Delta region, but it does offer a deep and diverse musical bedrock. Hank Williams is an Alabamian. Emmylou Harris, too. Three of the original five Temptations — Eddie Kendricks. Paul Williams and Melvin Franklin — were born in Birmingham, and Dennis Edwards, the man who replaced Temptations lead singer David Ruffin, is also a native Alabamian. Percy Sledge and Wilson Pickett — also Alabama. Of course, country music super band Alabama is from Alabama. Sun Ra was born there, and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section backed some legendary bands at FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. The state is home to a contemporary sound as well, with three of the Drive-By Truckers having north Alabama roots, and Jamey Johnson calling Alabama his native state. Indie acts Vulture Whale, The Dexateens and A.A. Bondy have Alabama roots as well.

So that's a brief, incomplete history of the music of Alabama. But for a fuller, complete history of the state, one needs to turn to the Southern Music CD No. 12. Smirnoff and company are into the business of digging deeper, beyond the crust to the mantle, uncovering gems. None of the above artist are found on the Southern Music CD No. 12. Is the music present obscure? Yes, but it's important...

...But the penultimate track is perhaps the album's best: "Precious Lord Lead Me On" from the album King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan. In 2005, Britt, a Philadelphia DJ and part-time performer with the Digable Planets, set the '70s recordings from Let's Make A Record of Alabama-born, New Orleans-based preacher, folk artist and musician Sister Gertrude Morgan to hip-hop beats. The result here is Morgan’s shimmying tambourine over a lush orchestra, creating a strange yet beautiful merger of electronica meets hymnal...

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!

CHECK OUT ALL THE ARTISTS FEATURED ON THE CD HERE!

  

Stay Tooned: St. James Infirmary Cartoon teaser. 10.20.09

King Britt Reflects on Upcoming St. James Infirmary Release!

Through the magic of iChat, we recently sat down for an online conversation with legendary Philadelphia-based DJ, producer and media mogul King Britt about the upcoming release of St. Peter Street Serenade, the iTunes digital package from Preservation Hall featuring the animated music video for King Britt's remix of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band performing "St. James Infirmary."

Available from iTunes, 10/20/09