Dap-Kings Maneuver

This is the official music video for the title track off Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings' 2007, 100 Days, 100 Nights, and it's as wonderfully old skool and gritty as their music. Man, what a great Soul/R'nB album, definitely one of my favorite longplayers of the year...

Meanwhile, Amy Winehouse is apparently on suicide watch and faithfully maintaining her various addictions for the sake of the paparazzi and all those in the celebrity trainwreck industry who profit from famous people who dare have the same sort of problems you, me and my cousin Chico have...

Until Amy gets it together enough to record a new album, or until the next Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators' joint, Sharon Jones and the band will be more than enough.

Hotcha! Hank

You're No Good

This is a really smart and sultry video mashup featuring Amy Winehouse doing her song "You Know I'm No Good", and Linda Ronstadt and her '70's smash hit, "You're No Good"...A very nice and natural mix of title, sentiment, delivery, etc, but I'm not entirely sure if this if an official video (doubt it) or some random VJ's handiwork...That link in the bottom left of the video leads to a blog entitled "Becoming A Pick-Up Artist", and a quick rundown of the site makes me doubt the same person is behind both...But whatever...It's an excellent mash of two excellent songs, and the video work is just as solid...

And of course, some of you might know of my love of Linda Ronstadt, which I got directly from my mom...I would guess she played Linda Ronstadt records more than any other artist with the possible exception of Elvis Presley...

Hotcha! Hank