Tuesday, September 30, 2008

(feel my heat): Aloe Blacc

Not sure if anyone else know who this guy is, but he is amazing.  Aloe Blacc is an incredible soul/r&b singer on the Stones Throw label.  Same label that drops heat from Madlib, Oh No, and the late, great J Dilla.  Aloe has one of the best styles I have ever heard.  Kind of like an indie R. Kelly, minus all the faux gangsterisms and teen sex stuff.  The best song off his debut album, Shine Through, is probably his cover of Sam Cooke's "A Change Going to Come".  If it were me, I would have made this the theme song to Obama's presidential campaign.  Anyway go get this album if you don't already have it.