Mary J. Blige tearing the house down at Chastain Park (Atlanta)

I got a question for you!

Do you wanna be liberated??

I need the hands of the church lifted if you truly wanna be liberated!! If this call is for you, let us liberate you with some shots from the Liberation Tour. Sporting an edgy look with her partial blond hair, Melanie Fiona brought an energetic performance on stage. With an element of surprise, D’Angelo greeted the audience of Chastain Park while making his way on stage to give them exactly what they were waiting for. Last but not least, radiant in red, Mary J. Blige strutted on stage singing Chaka Khan’s “Ain’t Nobody” while the crowd grooved and sang along. Here are some of the pictorial highlights from the show. Hope you enjoy!

Great to see D’Angelo back doing what he does and what better way to close out this month of covers than with this live performance from Amsterdam back in January. Special shout out to GFM writer extraordinaire DJKKC for putting me on to this Enjoy!

“Lady” is the third single from D’Angelo’s classic debut album Brown Sugar. “Lady” went to #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart and #2 on the R&B chart. Check out the remix video below too!

This post was inspired by the following from Bob Lefsetz

1. Listen to a lot of records. A knowledge of music is the best education. Spend more time listening than posting on Facebook. The musicians of yore could play every lick on their favorite blues records, can you?

There are a million more jewel’s in Bob’s recent letter entitled “New Rules” but I wanted to focus in on that particular statement for the purposes of this post.

Last evening we posted a ton of D’Angelo covers on the FB page. It’s pretty evident that D’Angelo and all of his musical collaborators did their homework. I know I’m preaching to the choir here when I say this, but homework takes time. Lots and lots of time. At times you may become frustrated and feel like you are not able to complete the assignment. Sometimes it’s good to at that point just walk away and come back to the problem another day. Other times it just clicks. (more…)

For fans of Prince, Maxwell and D’Angelo we have some new music Chicago’s own Grammy Award Winning Producer Tiger Roberts. Roberts, steps from behind the mixing console and steps up to to microphone and into the spotlight as the Recording Artist “TIGER” with his debut Single “Since U Been Gone” from the forthcoming debut Album “New World Order” (Beat Bang Ent.)

“Since U Been Gone” is a Soulful Ballad that oozes with emotion as “TIGER” sings passionately about LOVE and LOST and then makes the guitar cry the song into a climatic ending. “Since U Been Gone” is Written, Produced and Performed by “TIGER”.

Since U Been Gone by GrownFolksMusic

Three decades, generations, musical pockets and one great song. That’s what this series is all about. One thing that I think is really important about today’s post is that it is heading in a direction that ultimately will become not only the norm for this series but GFM in general.

As I have stated in numerous posts it is very easy to get stuck in the past and say “they sure don’t make music like they used to.” For a majority of artists in the mainstream this analysis would be spot on. But there a few(I stress few) mainstream and certainly hundreds of artists who are not in the main that represent the musical integrity that we pine for. (more…)

It’s been a while since we heard from our old friend D’. Fam hit us up and let us know what you think about the collabo between Mark Ronson and D’Angelo.
Special shout out to Soul Culture for the post.

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Here’s a quick recap of the top 10 most popular stories, tweets and random foolery from this week:

1. The Foreign Exchange announce their 3rd release, Authenticity. [FE]
2. Antoine Dodson, the viral sensation that will not die.  ”Bed Intruder” Gets Star-Studded Punk Rock Cover [Mashable]
3. Ron Isley Talks Tax Evasion, Prison, Mr. Biggs & More. [Vibe]
4. Missy Elliott Remembers Aaliyah, Nine Years Later [MTV]
5. How To Get Your Music into Pandora Internet Radio [CDBaby]
6. Exclusive Free New Song from Conya Doss [SoulTracks]
7. Mark Ronson Working on D’Angelo Album [MTV]
8. Google makes it official: Phone calls now in Gmail [CNET]
9. The Music Industry’s New Model: Where is it? [HuffingtonPost]
10. Fantasia on GMA Talks About Recent Struggles [WSJ]