Today was a lavishly great day. I figured out how to print op logs for the station, we had a fabulous meal with Santa Salsera at Taqueria Lopez, we saw King Britt and Sylk 130 perform at Duke, then had another fabulous meal with D. and S. from the late night menu at Watts Grocery. Who were mobbed because they just got a rave review in the N&O.
I decided the the King Britt show, billed as the "History of Philadelphia Soul," was my early birthday present. It was even a surprise because I had completely forgotten about the tickets. Georg got them early so we had great seats. Actually there are no bad seats in Reynolds. But ours were particularly good.
The show was superlative, in fact I'm having a hard time describing it. So I will just mention that among the four vocalists was the singer who did my favorite 4Hero track, and she sang that song tonight. And it was revelatory. So energetic that it was almost a different song. And it was already one of my favorites!
Also, on the way out I heard a hilarious conversation between two younger guys (probably students I would guess):
"What did you think?"
"I was floored. You?"
"Eh, I'd give it a six and a half."
"Really?"
"Yeah, Philly just isn't my city for soul."
"What is?"
"Memphis."
I'm with the first guy, I thought it was outstanding. There's room in the world (and on my iPod) for Philly soul and Memphis soul.
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