{"id":17945,"date":"2024-06-11T23:17:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T22:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=17945"},"modified":"2024-06-14T21:58:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T20:58:39","slug":"music-mainstream-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=17945","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Mainstream \u201972 (& beyond)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I first posted this, I started at the end. So I\u2019ve gone back, revised it, and I\u2019m now – kind of? – starting at the beginning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the real beginning of all things Mainstream, for me, was my dad\u2019s acquisition of this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 on vinyl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I fell in love with that album as a child. And I still love it to this day. Indeed, it\u2019s only now, sooo many years later, that I\u2019m really starting to explore both the Mainstream legacy, and other related stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, for example, I\u2019ve been collecting Kynard\u2019s recordings on other labels, and albums he\u2019s on as sideman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next stop was the \u2018blogosphere\u2019, perhaps around a decade or longer ago? A blogger was attempting to catalogue the entire Mainstream 300 series. I followed his progress, and subsequently learned a lot more about some of the fabulous music the label produced and\/or released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then some time soon after that, the BGP label started putting out stuff by Mainstream:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I got the Complete Alice Clark<\/em> and Loud Minority<\/em> CDs (have I got The Message<\/em>? Guess I need to check!). And that drew me further in to the web of Bob Shad and his musical emporium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running alongside a lot of this, my work writing Recycled<\/em>, a monthly classic album column, for Drummer<\/em> magazine, lead to a very specific and intriguing personal epiphany. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was writing a piece on Funkadelic\u2019s 1972 album America Eats It\u2019s Young<\/em>. Reproduced in the liner notes was an R&B chart for a month or week in 1972. It blew my mind! It was more or less wall to wall fabulousness. What a year \u201872 was, I thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so an obsession was born. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The above gallery – not a complete list or catalogue – is just for Mainstream albums either recorded or released (or both) in 1972. Below are some other non-\u201872 albums on the label that I either have, want, or would like to explore further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to now having all three Kynard Mainstream albums, all of which are terrific, I\u2019ve been finding out that some other artists on the label produced recordings that totally blow my gaskets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two in particular that I\u2019m really<\/em> diggin\u2019 are Blue Mitchell\u2019s Soul Village<\/em>, and Curtis Fuller\u2019s Smokin<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here are a few links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mainstream - WIKI<\/a>
Reggie Moore - Furioso<\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I first posted this, I started at the end. So I\u2019ve gone back, revised it, and I\u2019m now – kind of? – starting at the beginning. Well, the real beginning of all things Mainstream, for me, was my dad\u2019s acquisition of this: \u2026 on vinyl. I fell in love with that album as a … <\/p>\n
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