Everything Will Be Fine - New Soul

This is another mix in a series of new soul music from the last decade or so. As I started putting this together I started to realize I had a lot more of this great music than I originally thought and I think this series of mixes will go on for a while.

JC Brooks & The Uptown Sounds in the pic.

1. JC Brooks & The Uptown Sounds - Everything Will Be Fine (Want More, 2011)
2. Raphael Saadiq - Love That Girl (The Way I See It, 2008)
3. Alice Russell - Heartbreaker (To Dust, 2013)
4. Fitz & The Tantrums - Break The Walls (More Than Just A Dream, 2013)
5. Ryan Shaw - Do The 45 (This Is Ryan Shaw, 2007)
6. Noisettes - That Girl (Contact, 2012)
7. Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven (Unorthodox Jukebox, 2012)
8. Trombone Shorty - Be My Lady (Say That To This, 2013)
9. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeyears - Since I Met You Baby (Scandalous, 2011)
10. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way (I Learned The Hard Way, 2010)
11. Marvin Sease - I'm Still Waiting On You (Candy Licker: The Sex & Soul of Marvin Sease, 2006)
12. Barrence Whitfield & The Savages - My Baby Didn't Come Home (Dig The Savage Soul, 2013)
13. Cody ChesnuTT - Til I Met Thee (Landing On A Hundred, 2012)
14. Bobby Womack - Please Forgive My Heart (The Bravest Man In The Universe, 2012)
15. Alice Smith - Fool For You (She, 2013)
16. Anthony Hamilton - Best Of Me (Back To Love, 2011)
17. Adele - Chasing Pavements (19, 2008)
18. Booker T. Jones & Yim Yames - Progress (The Road From Memphis, 2011)

Now Beat Well - Decade 2

Another mix of soul music from the second decade of approximately 1965-1975. This one is mostly late 60's.

King Curtis blowing the sax in the pic.

1. King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew
2. Jr. Walker & The All Stars - Shake and Fingerpop
3. Martha & The Vandallas - Dancing In The Street
4. Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up
5. Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music
6. The Temptations - I Can't Get Next To You
7. The Supremes - I've Got An Itching In My Heart
8. Aretha Franklin - Think
9. Kim Weston - Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While)
10. The Marvelettes - Too Many Fish In The Sea
11. Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar
12. Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston - It Takes Two
13. Sam & Dave - Soul Man
14. Otis Redding - I Can't Turn You Loose
15. James Brown - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag Pt. 1
16. Johnnie Taylor - Who's Making Love
17. Joe Tex - Show Me
18. JJ Jackson - But It's Alright
19. Robert Knight - Everlasting Love
20. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - (Come 'Round Here) I'm The One You Need
21. The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself
22. The Velvelettes - Needle In A Haystack
23. The 8th Day - She's Not Just Another Woman
24. King Floyd - Groove Me

My Top 20 Mixes on MixCloud

These are my top 20 mixes on Mixcloud based on the number of listens.

1. When The Night Has Come - Heartache (140)
2. All Shook Up - Decade 1 (125)
3. All Tomorrow's Parties - Late Night (118)
4. She Wears Denim Wherever She Goes - Happy Hour (99)
5. House Party 1968 Pt. 1 (76)
6. Out Of Time - Happy Hour (70)
7. That's What I Like - Happy Hour (71)
8. There She Goes Again - Happy Hour (68)
9. I Only Have Eyes For You - Decade 1 (64)
10. Show Me The Place - Songs 2012 (tie) (56)
11. Come On Let's Go - Decade 1 (tie) (56)
12. No Matter What - Happy Hour (52)
13. House Party 1968 Pt. 2 (51)
14. Lived In Bars - Ladies Night (tie) (48)
15. Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll - Songs 1977 (tie) (48)
16. Love and Affection - Ladies Night (47)
17. Trouble Bound - Porch Sittin' (45)
18. I Got My Mojo Working - Decade 1 (42)
19. Neither Here Nor There - Songs 2012 (41)
20. Slippin' Into Darkness - Funky Beat (41)
21. Stars All Seem To Weep - Night Chill (41)
22. Do It Again - Songs 1969 (40)

It's Only Life - Late Night

It's Only Life. A new late night mix. Pop songs of sad contemplation about life and death. Sometimes over the top and sometimes down in the depths.

1. The Shins - It's Only Life (Point Of Morrow, 2012)
2. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks (Veckatimest, 2009)
3. Beck - Lost Cause (Sea Change, 2007)
4. Coldplay - In My Place (A Rush Of Blood To The Head, 2002)
5. Radiohead - No Surprises (OK Computer, 1997)
6. Live - Lightning Crashes (Throwing Copper, 1994)
7. Travis - Turn (The Man Who, 1999)
8. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts (Automatic For The People, 1992)
9. The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony (Urban Hymns, 1997)
10. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (Various Positions, 1985)
11. Moby - In This World (18, 2002)
12. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize? (Yoshima Battles The Pink Robots, 2002)
13. Blur - No Distance Left To Run (13, 1999)
14. Son Volt - Holocaust (A Retrospective: 1995-2000, 2005)
15. Bob Dylan - Trying To Get To Heaven (Time Out Of Mind, 1997)
16. Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart (The Wind, 2003)

Woke Up This Morning - Porch Sittin'

My latest mix. A collection of recent songs to mellow out on the porch contemplating the sunset after a long hard day. It's been a rough few weeks and the mix is kind of sad and intense but the songs are all killer. Mostly about life and loss.

The pic is Beck because he sets the mood of the mix.

1. Beck - Morning (Morning Phase, 2014)
2. Jay Farrar, Jim Jones, Anders Parker & Will Johnson- Hoping Machine (New Multitudes, 2012)
3. Dawes - So Well (Nothing Is Wrong, 2011)
4. Gary Louris & Mark Olson - Bicycle (Ready For The Flood, 2008)
5. Middle Brother - Million Dollar Bill (Middle Brother, 2011)
6. Assembly of Dust - Cold Coffee (Some Assembly Required, 2009)
7. Passenger - Let Her Go (All The Little Lights, 2012)
8. Jim James - Actress (Regions of Light and Sound of God, 2013)
9. Dawn Golden - All I Want (Still Life, 2014)
10. Sturgill Simpson - It Ain't All Flowers (Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, 2014)
11. Daughn Gibson - Into The Sea (Me Moan, 2013)
12. Father John Misty - Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings (Fear Fun, 2012)
13. M. Ward & Lucinda Williams - Oh Lonesome Me (Hold Time, 2009)
14. Monsters of Folk - Dear God (MoF) (Monsters of Folk, 2009)
15. Cass McCombs - You Saved My Life (Catacombs, 2009)
16. Jason Isbell - Cover Me Up (Southeastern, 2013)