A Not-So-Rocking Wednesday, but its all good

The Live Music Nation continues to expand
Wednesday night saw the inaugural mid-week jam at Grosvenor Galleries
in Manor Park. On the green lawns and under a cool breeze, Seretse Small
and Friends, including a welcome guest appearance from guitar legend
Earl 'Chinna' Smith (who also sang).

The highlights were two very promising female vocalists - Janine, who's no
stranger to LMN, and who's caustic kiss-off song 'Parasite' could top any chart anywhere, and Ann Marie, who put her big but velvety vocals to use on covers of Alicia Keys (Diary) and Jill Scott (The Way).

The series continues with the next free jam (and a promise of more rock flavour) in one week's time.

Not My Imagination - RIP Norman Whitfield

R.I.P. Norman Whitfield, Motown Studio/Songwriting Ace
The producer and songwriter who displaced Smokey Robinson
as the lead producer for the Temptations and helped usher Motown into
its psychedelic, socially conscious era has gone to a session in the great
Studio A in the sky. He leaves behind a string of truly potent singles and album
tracks from the mid-late 1960s and early '70s. (Well, those and the
songs he did with Rose Royce on his own label, after leaving Motown in 1975.)
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