A little chilled-out, smoothed-out, soulful, sumthin, sumthin for your Friday. “Sumthin, Sumthin” by Maxwell from his debut album Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite.

Happy Valentines to all those who are taken, almost taken, taken for granted, waiting to be taken, assumed to be taken, & those who aren’t taken seriously!

Share this free download among your friends to bless them with some musical joy on this special day!

This mix contains music from:
Joe, Usher, BlackStreet, Brian McKnight, Marques Houston, Bobby Valentino, Boyz II Men, Maxwell, Tamia, Avant, Eric Roberson, Keith Sweat, Jamie Foxx, Jodeci and many more R&B-allstars.

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Maxwell performs “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” during the annual Christmas in Washington concert. Enjoy and we wish you and your family a very, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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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

Ok, I finally got a chance to check out Maxwell’s video for his latest release, “Fistful of Tears”. I really like the concept behind this piece because its simplistic elegance has a way of subtle seduction which Maxwell is masterful at achieving. The aged TV stage, moving silhouettes and classic black and white shades recreated a surreal “Marvin Gaye” moment. For a split second, it appeared as if he was channeling the iconic crooner in this video. To better illustrate my point, here is Maxwell’s new video “Fistful of Tears” and Marvin Gaye’s performance of “Hitch Hike”. Tell me what you think? (more…)

Before I weigh-in please watch the clip, if you have not already seen it.

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Here’s a great performance clip of Maxwell at last nights Grammy Nomination concert. You can see a full list of the nominees here. Props to Rap Radar for the clip.

Intro: A generation can be defined as: “A group of persons living contemporaneously”. In this state of contemporary living there are many factors that serve as “Signs O’ The Times” (pun intended). Economics, politics, religion, the media etc., all play an integral part in influencing the music of every generation. Often, there is a disconnect between the music and the messengers of different generations which often pits members of different generations on opposing sides of the musical landscape. Interestingly enough, if we delve deeply enough into the subject matter of songs from purportedly opposing generations, often there is more that unites us on a human level than divides us.

In the spirit of the season we would encourage members of different generations to get together to discover and discuss the music of a different generation. This should be a time to put away the bias divides us and create an environment whereby each generation might learn from the other. As different as 1979 is from 2009 there are many similarities in how we relate to one another that should unite us.

Over the next few weeks we will compare and contrast songs from different eras that fall under a similar subject matter heading. We will examine topics ranging from relationships to materialism to simply having a good time. This is not a best of list or a popularity contest list but really it is a tool to spark some meaningful conversations, full of constructive debate that should lead to some “teachable moments”.