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Playlists

(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 2: What’s Old Is New

Happy Saturday! We’re back with another round of (Un)Focused Definition, a weekly series where I put together a playlist of tunes around a theme of my choosing. This time around we’re checking out older bands that were recent discoveries. As much as I try to keep up with newer music, I find myself constantly being drawn to the past, to older, analog sounds that spread over a wide space of genres. There are some loose groupings below, so let’s cut the chatter, grab a cup of hot coffee, and get to it, shall we?

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Vinyl

Cleveland Eaton: Plenty Good Eaton (1975)

I wasn’t familiar with Cleveland Eaton before seeing this reissue from Real Gone Music when I was looking at grabbing the Kool and the Gang vinyl I discussed a few weeks ago. But the description – a blend of Ramsey Lewis’s soul funk and the swing of Count Basie filtered through the fusion that was riding high in the mid 70s – caught me. The fact that Plenty Good Eaton not only was a fun play on words but was originally on the Black Jazz label was another vote of confidence for a blind buy, so I took the dive…I’m here to report I am now the happier for it.

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