![]() ![]() Select Reports > Custom Transaction Detail Report (Modify Report window opens).Kendra Morris – “Ride The Lightning” (Metallica Cover – soul version) by The response to her jazzy takes on the Pink Floyd classic “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” and Metallica’s “Ride the Lightning” (surprisingly recast as a smoldering soul ballad) in particular further raised her profile and led the singer to assemble a full album of covers entitled Mockingbird in 2013. The diverse collection found Morris ably interpreting everything from ’60s soul and pop (the Charmels’ “As Long As I Have You” and Burt Bachrach’s “Walk on By”) to modern alternative rock (Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” and Radiohead’s “Karma Police”). Since then, the singer has continued to explore a soulful style of songwriting that has earned her comparisons to the late Amy Winehouse and contemporary soul stylists like Alice Russell and Portishead’s Beth Gibbons. In 2016, Morris issued the six-song EP Babble that included the fuzzed-out, simmering psychedelic torch songs “Wizards Float” and “Woman” that garnered more raves. ![]() She has since released a few singles and collaborated with hip-hop supergroup Czarface, but it wasn’t until Colemine subsidiary Karma Chief put out her latest full-length effort Nine Lives earlier this year that fans have had a full collections of new music from Morris.Curtis Mayfield: Superfly – stream SpotifyĬurtis Mayfield was an odd choice to write a blaxploitation soundtrack. His reputation was built on the protest songs with which he documented the 60s civil rights movement – Keep on Pushing, People Get Ready, Choice of Colours, We’re a Winner. His writing was characterised by open-heartedness, empathy and nuance for all its importance in bringing black experience to mainstream cinema, blaxploitation films were frequently violent, cartoonish and shocking. ![]()
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