Your Daily Song Fix

@peteyorn Enjoy this great Rock song.

Here is some great New Orleans Rhythm & Blues recommended by my friend Danny “The Lanyard” Synk.

I’ve been getting back into Pink Floyd lately so here’s one of the lesser known Floyd songs. “See Emily Play” was written by Syd Barret and recorded on May 23, 1967. According to A Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey, by Nicholas Schaffner, Emily is the Honorable Emily Young, daughter of Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, and nicknamed “the psychedelic schoolgirl” at the UFO Club.

Originally written by Jimmy Reed, this version was taken from a live recording at St. George’s Club in Hackensack, New Jersey. The recording is from 1965 which was before Hendrix was famous. At this point he had really just been a side man for The Isley Brothers, Sam Cooke, Little Richard, and others. It sounds like Curtis Knight is singing on this version of Bright Lights Big City which was released on the album Drivin’ South.

Robert Cray is a great Blues musician and five-time Grammy award winner. Here is one of his more main stream sounding tunes but you can definitely hear the Blues influence.

( @Great_Big_Sea ) Here’s a really fun song. See if you can figure out the lyrics without looking them up.

( Twitter: @PaoloNutini ) Despite previously being on stage with The Rolling Stones and Herbie Hancock, this guy is very awesome and very unknown.

Gil Scott Heron is best known as a Spoken Word Soul performer and African American activist. His unique style of music from the 1960’s and 1970’s influenced Neo Soul music and a generation of Hip-Hop artists. Although this is a less known track than his famous “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”, Scott-Heron mentioned in a recent interview that it is just as important. “Save The Children” is from the album Pieces of Man. I strongly recommend exposing yourself to that album.