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On That Note: Late musicians 2018

Mac Miller had some great songs. Donald Trump, Best Day Ever, Self Care, Senior Skip Day.
My favorite (especially while working out) is Loud.

 
Another song written by Marty Balin and played by Jefferson Airplane. They may not be everyone's cup of tea but to me they've stood the test of time. I love the close up video and sound of the band here, unpolished as it may be.

 
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Sigmapolis said:
One last one for the Screamin' Eagle of Soul...

Charles Edward Bradley (November 5, 1948 – September 23, 2018) was an American singer.[1] His performances and recording style were consistent with the revivalist approach of his main label Daptone Records, celebrating the feel of funk and soul music from the 1960s and 1970s.[2] One review said he "echoes the evocative delivery of Otis Redding".[3] Bradley was raised by his maternal grandmother in Gainesville, Florida, until the age of eight when his mother, who had abandoned him at eight months of age, took him to live with her in Brooklyn, New York.[5] In 1962, his sister took him to the Apollo Theater to see James Brown perform.[6] Bradley was so inspired by the performance that he began to practice mimicking Brown's style of singing and stage mannerisms at home.[7]

When he was fourteen, Bradley ran away from home to escape poor living conditions—his bedroom was in a basement with a sand floor—and lived on the streets during the day and slept nights in subway cars for two years[8]. Later, he enlisted in Job Corps which eventually led him to Bar Harbor, Maine to train as a chef.[citation needed] A co-worker told him he looked like James Brown and asked if he could sing; he was at first shy but then admitted that he could.[citation needed] He overcame his stage fright (when a crew member pushed him through the curtains onto the stage) and performed five or six times with a band. His bandmates were later drafted into the Vietnam War, and the act never re-formed.[9][not in citation given]

Bradley worked in Maine as a cook for ten years, and then decided to head west, hitchhiking across the country.[6] He lived in upstate New York, Seattle, Canada and Alaska before settling in California in 1977.[5][7] There, Bradley worked odd jobs and played small shows for 20 years.[6] He earned extra money doing James Brown performances, where he used such stage names as the Screaming Eagle of Soul, Black Velvet and even James Brown Jr. In 1994 he moved back to Brooklyn after receiving a call from his mother.[10]

In 1996, Bradley's mother called him and asked him to move back in with her in Brooklyn so she could get to know him.[5] It was there he began making a living moonlighting as a James Brown impersonator in local clubs under the name "Black Velvet."[11][12] During this time, Bradley experienced more difficulties, including almost dying in a hospital after having an allergic reaction to penicillin, and, in a separate episode, awaking at his mother's house to a commotion as police and ambulances were arriving to the scene of his brother's murder, just down the road from there.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bradley_(singer)



A friend and I went to a concert of his a few years ago. He made the whole crowd ugly cry. If a man ever had the right to sing the blues and soul, he was the one. Godspeed.
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Charles Bradley passed away on September 23, 2017.
 
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