From Soul-Patrol.com :


One of the things that I have done today was immerse myself in the music of our friend, the GREAT Sugar Pie DeSanto.

Sugar Pie De Santo was an early and consistent believer in Soul-Patrol.com. And has been for many years. And when someone does that, I don't ever forget about them.

If you have been paying attention, we have been posting her concert dates and other announcements on the Soul-Patrol Times for a number of years. She's a major player on the West Coast Blues scene, doing shows in front of nearly 100 percent white audiences.

(However she's NOT a "blues artist")

- She's got a new album called "Refined Sugar", that we have several cuts playing on Nu Soul @ RadioIO.com:
http://www.radioio.com/channels/nusoul

- You can also listen to her classic material on Classic RnB @
RadioIO.com:
http://www.radioio.com/ch...lassic-rnb

Now I am quite certain that there are more than a few of yall who don't immediately recognize the name Sugar Pie DeSanto. However she is one of the greatest vocal talents in the history of Black music.

If you don't already know this, please go to her website at the following link and learn some more about her: http://www.jasmanrecords.com

Sugar Pie De Santo made big news recently, when she was announced as one of the 2008 R&B Foundation Pioneer Award winners.

But in reality, Sugar Pie De Santo got some even bigger recognition in 2008. That's because she won 5 Grammy Awards last year.

(well not really)

But Amy Winehouse did, while doing a pretty good imitation of Sugar Pie De Santo.

Now I am certain that some of yall think that I should be mad at Amy Winehouse for doing what she did.

However, I'm not....

The people I'm mad at are the younger Black artists out there who could have easily done the same thing that Amy Winehouse did, but chose not to. Younger Black artists seem to think that the style of music that artists like Sugar Pie De Santo mastered in the 1960's is "dated" in 2008.

It's a good thing that the rest of the world doesn't agree with those Black artists, who don't seem to think very much of 1960's R&B.

Because I would say that right now, the sound of 1960's R&B is quite possibly "the hippest trip in America." (apologies to Don Cornelius)

It's a sound that's everywhere. I get tons of it in the mail every week. It's a sound that's selling out nightclubs all over the United States in 2008. It's all over the Social Networking sites. It's all over Triple A formatted radio stations. Hell I even hear it blasting out of the speakers of young white kids Jeeps right here in suburban New Jersey.

In fact it's a sound that is everywhere...(except for knee-grow radio stations)

Personally I am glad that Amy Winehouse gave Sugar Pie De Santo some props.

However I am even happier that some Black folks are going to be giving her some props at the 2008 R&B Foundation Pioneer Awards. I'm excited that Sugar Pie De Santo will be getting an R&B Foundation Pioneer Award this year. It will give me a chance to finally meet her in person for the first time, shake her hand and give her a big hug.

Sometimes that's really all a person needs, a well meaning and sincere hug. It can mean the world to you, when the rest of the world acts like you don't exist....

Anyhow, we aren't going to wait for the R&B Foundation Awards to do the right thing by Sugar Pie De Santo, so we are doing this right now, so that you can take the time to do some deep exploration of the legendary SUGAR PIE DESANTO. Start by taking a listen to the excellent retrospective we have on the music of Sugar Pie DeSanto, hosted by our own T.Watts, at the following link:
http://www.soul-patrol.ne...esanto.ram

Once you listen to Sugar Pie's music, you will very quickly understand, just what the source is of Amy Winehouse's multi-platinum/multi Grammy Award winning music.

Click on that link now, so that you can hear this great music as you scroll down and read Sugar Pie's biography and A report by T.Watts of Sugar Pie's explosive appearence at the June/2008 Chicago Blues Festival, where Sugar Pie De Santo ROCKED the city of Chicago!

These contents are also posted at the following link:
http://www.soul-patrol.co...santo.html

Let us know what cha think?
Thanks in advance...

--Bob Davis
609-351-0154
earthjuice@prodigy.net

I highly doubt Amy Winehouse was imitating a new artist imitating the 1960s.

Cinnie said:

ha, the lady came from the 1960s, she wasnt imitating anyone lol

gs56ca said:

lol damn that is some early posting/bad reading comprehension from Cinnie

I had to come back to this to really understand.

I get it now!