And, as a final something for 2007: Wu-Tang Clan's "Campfire" (listen), track one from 8 Diagrams.
A very sobering and (dare-I-say) mature kung-fu sample; an incredibly spooky sample of the Persuasions' cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Gypsy Woman"; and an absolutely killer verse from Method Man to get it started.
Not a bad start to an album that's growing on me very quickly.
I am Jerry Lawson, former lead singer of The Persuasions for 40 years & 23 albums- I wish I knew ahead of time that Wu-Tang was going to use our song this way - I'm not thrilled about it at all - But hey, they might bring attention to our 40 years of contributions, who knows? Meantime I have a brand new CD : Jerry Lawson and Talk of The Town. Twenty a cappella tracks that turned out to be the masterpiece of my career. There is nothing like it out there. I hope you can share our link.
www.jerrylawson.biz
or
www.myspace.com/jerrylawsonmusic
Posted by: Jerry Lawson | January 02, 2008 at 08:40 AM