#251 White Mystery and Opinions on John Legend & The Roots

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4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2010

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Up and coming garage rock duo White Mystery stops by for a conversation and live performance. Then we review the new collaboration between John Legend and The Roots.

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0:00.0	What do you love about music?
0:04.0	To begin with,
0:08.0	everything. Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world. Greg, one of the best parts about being a rock critic is that we get to discover new and exciting
0:41.0	artists, sometimes right in our backyard. I'm Jim Deregatus of
0:44.7	vocalo.org and I'm Greg Cod of the Chicago Tribune. Today we welcome up-and-coming
0:49.3	garage rock band White Mystery. Plus we review the joint effort by John Legend and the Roots.
0:55.4	That's all coming up on sound opinions.
1:00.7	From W.B.E.Z. Chicago and distributed by PRX you're listening to sound opinions and time now to welcome our newest affiliate.
1:08.0	Yes Greg we're now on the air in sunny southern Florida WUSF out of Tampa and we thought we'd pay tribute to that neck of the
1:14.9	woods by playing some music.
1:16.1	Tampa, Florida, you cannot mention its music scene without mentioning Julian Edwin Cannonball
1:21.2	Adderly, one of the great jazz saxophonist of the 20th century.
1:25.7	I was born in Tampa, 1928, was a local Florida legend in the 40s when he was playing
1:31.2	with Ray Charles. Moved to New York in the 50s, played on a
1:34.6	little jazz album with Miles Davis called Kind of Blue. Made a few ripples in the jazz world.
1:39.3	I've heard of that record.
1:40.3	Yeah.
1:41.3	Adderley went on to have a tremendous solo career in the 60s recorded numerous albums.
1:46.1	His biggest take got some commercial radio airplane in the 60s with this song was written for
1:51.0	him by his keyboardist Joe Zawinall.
1:53.4	It's called Mercy Mercy Mercy
1:55.4	by Cannonball Adderly on Sound Appendix. Yeah. Oh, I'm not. And then. Oh, Yeah, and I'm going to. Oh, Yeah, I'm not. Oh, That is mercy mercy, mercy, Mercy, Cannon Bowl Adderly there from Tampa.
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