D'Angelo's Voodoo & Bassist Pino Palladino

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🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot dissect D’Angelo’s masterpiece album Voodoo. They chat with author Faith Pennick about the record’s context, impact and more. Then, the hosts will talk with the bassist who played on that album, among many others, Pino Palladino.

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Featured Songs:

D'Angelo, "One Mo'gin," Voodoo, Virgin, 2000

D'Angelo, "Playa Playa," Voodoo, Virgin, 2000

D'Angelo, "Chicken Grease," Voodoo, Virgin, 2000

D'Angelo, "Brown Sugar," Brown Sugar, EMI, 1995

D'Angelo, "Devil's Pie," Voodoo, Virgin, 2000

D'Angelo, "Untitled (How Does It Feel)," Voodoo, Virgin, 2000

D'Angelo, "Africa," Voodoo, Virgin, 2000

D'Angelo, "The Root," Voodoo, Virgin, 2000

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, "Just Wrong," Notes With Attachments, Verve, 2021

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, "Off The Cuff," Notes With Attachments, Verve, 2021

Paul Young, "Come Back and Stay (Extended Version)," No Parlez, Columbia, 1983

D'Angelo, "Send It On," Voodoo, Virgin, 2000

D'Angelo, "Feel Like Makin' Love," Voodoo, Virgin, 2000

The Who, "Baba O'Riley (Live at the Hollywood Bowl 2002)," Who's Next, Decca, 1971

The Who, "My Generation," My Generation, Brunswick, 1965

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, "Soundwalk," Notes With Attachments, Verve, 2021

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, "Ekuté," Notes With Attachments, Verve, 2021

D'Angelo, Femi Kuti, Macy Gray, and the Soultronics, "Water No Get Enemy (feat. Nile Rodgers and Roy Hargrove)," Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti, MCA, 2003

John Mayer Trio, "Who Did You Think I Was (Live at the House of Blues, Chicago, Illinois, September 22, 2005)," Try! Live in Concert, Columbia, 2005

Low, "Long Way Around the Sea," Christmas, Kranky, 1999

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0:00.0	Hey there, if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon, you can hear it via the Patreon page and free.
0:30.0	You're listening to Sound Opinions, and this week we're talking with the legendary bassist, Peno Paladino.
0:35.6	An artist so prolific, he's played with everyone from the WHO to D'Angelo.
0:40.4	I'm Jim D. Rigatis, and I'm Greg Kott.
0:42.8	And speaking of D'Angelo, we've got a classic album dissection of his 2000 masterpiece, Voodoo.
0:49.2	That's a little bit of the song, play a play by D'Angelo, the first track office 2000 album, Voodoo.
1:16.8	Today we're doing a classic album dissection of that record.
1:20.2	The story of Voodoo and what followed is absolutely fascinating.
1:24.2	It absolutely is, Greg.
1:25.9	Before we dive into talking about the record, let's give some background about who D'Angelo is as an artist.
1:32.7	Is born Michael Eugene Archer, 1974, grew up in Richmond, Virginia, the surrounding area,
1:39.5	came up in the church as the son of a pentacostal preacher and fell in love with music,
1:45.2	especially classics, soul, R&B, and funk.
1:49.4	And you can hear those influences all over his songs, was originally part of that neo-soul movement.
1:56.3	People in that genre getting back to, you know, recording with real instruments away from synthesized
2:03.5	productions. After being a member of a couple of different groups, he signed in 1991, age 17 to EMI.
2:12.0	And he worked as a songwriter until his debut in 1995, the Brown Sugar Record.
2:18.4	Now, Brown Sugar was a huge hit, Jim, and many felt at the time that this young artist,
2:23.0	D'Angelo, was taking up the mantle from Grace like Marvin Gaye, with those sultry vocals and
2:28.3	those very soulful songs. And around this time, he took a step in a different direction.
2:34.0	He joined the musical collective, the Soul Quarance, which included artists like Questlove,
2:39.6	Jay Dilla, Erica Badu, Common, Mose Dev, and Q-tip to name just a few.
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