Ken Tucker
speaker
453 appearances
27 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 17 Sep
Ken Tucker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Their uncle, Bobby Womack, possessed the gravelly voice that powered hits like Looking for a Love and Across 110th Street.
And their grandfather was the gospel and soul great Sam Cook.
Now these three sisters, Biji, Kucha, and Zamani, are looking to shape the kind of music they grew up hearing for a contemporary audience that doesn't know or care about their illustrious roots.
That's a song called Chauffeur, whose title works as a job description and a metaphor.
Apparently, the Womac sisters took a number of jobs over the years to finance their recording, including doing some Uber driving.
The lyric is about taking control of one's career, no longer being a passenger, getting behind the wheel.
While this new release is being positioned as the sisters debut, I've been aware of various songs and EPs they've released over the past decade, and what strikes me about this album is that it's got their best songwriting, and for the first time they transcend nostalgia.
Yes, the music is rooted in 1960's soul, but their crisp, tight harmonies possess an urgency and immediacy that speaks to the world we're living in right now.
In contrast to the Womac sisters' impeccable harmonies, I give you Margaret Glaspy's voice ringingly alone as her piece is interrupted by a former lover who suddenly appears at the end of her driveway.
That song called Michigan leads off Margaret Glasby's new album called I Am Both.
On it, Glaspie acts as a chronicler of doubt, hesitation, misgiving, of the emotions that can grind a relationship to a halt.
She keeps circling back to the word nothing, the
Doing nothing is something I do too well, she sings on one song.
In another, she describes a couple stuck in a rut.
James and Marie, they don't want to say the wrong thing, so they say nothing.
The music is mostly glassy in her acoustic guitar with an occasional puff on a harmonica.
Discrete keyboards and drums slip in here and there.
Working with producer Joe Henry, Glasby sounds as though she's walking through the rooms of an empty house, taking in memories good and bad, assigning blame, and taking responsibility.
That line I'm slamming doors you leave open and I'm hoping you're feeling it.
Oh boy, that really kills me.
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