Kool
Video for Kool & The Gang’s Get Down On It. From 1981. Below, Spirit of the Boogie title track. From 1975.
Kool & The Gang: Spirit Of The Boogie
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Power
Tower of Power performs Funk the Dumb Stuff.
Below, disco-influenced track Rock Baby. From 1979.
Tower of Power: Rock Baby
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Buddys
Buddy Guy, Buddy Miles, Jack Bruce and Dick Heckstall-Smith jam. Mary Had a Little Lamb. From Supershow 1969.
Below, more Buddy Miles . . .
Buddy Miles: Them Changes
Found via George Holden
Street meat
‘The sneakers, a pair of Nike Air Force Ones are called ‘Haute Charcuterie”
Meat shoes designed by Swiss design firm BlackYard, presented at Art Clash 2009. More info here.
Found via Modern Urban Style
Pork chop
‘It’s hand printed in black, red, and white inks on 100% post-consumer recycled kraft cardstock. Super glossy double hit o black.’
Letterpress meat poster, part of YeeHaw’s Butcher Shop Series – which also includes porterhouse, ribeye and New York strip. Order up here.
Soul
‘Jimmy Lee is one of America’s great black chefs. A native of Louisiana, he has cooked from Natchez to Mobile, Charleston to New Orleans. Now semiretired, Jimmy Lee lives in California and cooks only for family and friends.’
Jimmy Lee’s Soul Food Cook Book. From 1970. Old paperback found at a garage sale. Dogeared, cause I’ve cooked a lot of stuff outta it.
Cheap ingredients, incredible flavors. Here’s a bucketful of recipes . . . . [Read more →]
Truth
‘Unofficial’ video for Alexander Ebert’s Truth. From the self-titled album.
Footage lifted from the Ken Burns documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004).
Steve’s Chow-Chow
Pennsylvania Chow-Chow was a mainstay in my family.
My grandfather used to jar his own and about 15 years ago, I went in search of the Official Family Recipe.
And it turned out, no one ever wrote it down.
So I ended up questioning my mother, aunts, uncles how it was done. Pieced together what I could and whipped up a large batch.
Designed some homespun labels and sent a bunch of jars out to the family.
In my version of the recipe, I keep the veggies crisp – which I define as A California Thing. I never understood the need to make cooked vegetables come out mushy.
My grandfather’s reaction was, ‘Oh, you’ll get it right next time.’
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