{"id":4549,"date":"2014-01-10T11:54:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T16:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2014-01-10T11:54:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T16:54:06","slug":"friars-club-soul-pt2-connie-t-empress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4549","title":{"rendered":"Friars Club Soul Pt2 – Connie T Empress!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Connie T Empress Set , Friars Club 01\/07\/14
\nPhilly Dog Mar-Keys (Stax)
\nSoul Sister, Brown Sugar- Sam & Dave (Atlantic)
\nIn The Basement Part 1- Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto )Cadet)
\nHear Say-Soul Children (Stax)
\nA Dime A Dozen-Carla Thomas (Stax)
\nI Used To Cry Mercy, Mercy-Lamplighters (Gusto reissue)
\nToe Hold-Wilson Pickett (Atlantic)(“David said he had no idea WP had ever done this! so I played it.<\/em>“)
\nSoul Girl-Jeanne & The Darlings (Volt)
\nI Could Never Be Satisfied Pt 1 – Sir Mack Rice (ATCO)
\nYa Ya-Tamiko Jones (A&M)
\nSnatchin’ Back-Calvin Arnold (Venture)
\nLove Bug Got A Bear Hug-Melvin Davis (Mala)
\nLet Me Be Your Boy-Wilson Pickett (Verve)
\nFormula of Love – William Bell (Stax)
\nFall In Love With Me-Bettye Swann (Money)
\nSay You-The Monitors (V.I.P.)
\nOh, I’ve Been Blessed-Bobby Taylor (V.I.P.)
\nLate Shadows-Nicki Lee (Dade)
\nYou Can’t Miss What you Can’t Measure-Clarence Carter (Atlantic)
\nLove Bones-Johnny Taylor (Stax)
\nLoving Material-The Charmels (Volt)
\nI Found Out-The Astors (Stax)
\nBaby Make Your Own Sweet Music-The Bandwagon (Epic)
\nDo The Whoopie-SugarPie Di Santo (Brunswick)
\nI can Take Care of Myself – Gene Chandler (Constellation)
\nSleep Good Tonight-Sam & Dave (Stax)
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Listen\/Download Connie T Empress’s Set: Friars Club NYC 01\/07\/14 78MB\/256K Mixed MP3<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope you all dug my account of this week’s amazing Friars Club experience with the legendary David Porter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I am privileged to bring you today is the complete set spun that night by the mighty Connie T Empress.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the few of you that won’t know her name, Connie T Empress was one of the founders of the legendary Empire State Soul Club.<\/strong> Starting in 1987 and lasting well into the 90s, Connie, along with W. Lee<\/strong> and Jeff the Chef<\/strong> spun the finest in rare soul for audiences all over New York City.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Empress feeling the groove!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though I missed out on the ESSC experience, I was lucky enough to spin alongside Connie when she joined the ranks of the Asbury Park 45 Sessions <\/strong>back in 2007, spinning with our crew for a few years.<\/p>\n

She is that rarest of soul DJ, in that she’s no mere trainspotter\/collector, but rather a dyed in the wool fan who feels the music as much as the dancers on the floor (she’s usually moving and grooving behind the decks at the same time).<\/p>\n

Her enthusiasm is obvious and contagious, and I always relish the opportunity to share the turntables with her. It never fails that I come away from one of her sets with a number of sides added to my want list, and this evening was no exception.<\/p>\n

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\nESSC Reunion: Connie T Empress and W. Lee!<\/strong><\/p>\n

What you get here is a little over an hour of solid senders, engineered for the dance floor, all groovy.<\/p>\n

A brief technical note; as I mentioned with my set, there were some problems with the mixer, with some bleed through from channel to channel, but certainly not enough to keep such a tasty set under wraps. Fortunately, Connie did not experience the drop-out I did during my set, so you get this mix in stereo!<\/p>\n

As always, I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you all on Monday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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PS Head over to Iron Leg too.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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