You Want To Hear Echoes

Delta 5 “Try” – This song is the friend everyone has who is stuck in some horrible relationship, hating everything about it, yet desperately attempting to improve it, despite near-total communication breakdown. Trying, trying, trying. But why? And you just want to take them and shake them by the shoulders and tell them to give up, but nothing you can say is ever enough to snuff out that lingering bit of optimistic delusion. (Click here to buy it from Kill Rock Stars.)

Ken Boothe & Joe Higgs “Message of Old” – Ahhhh, the fade-out is too abrupt! The scat singing on the outro is fantastic, it’s such a shame that it’s cut off maybe thirty or forty seconds too soon. Other than that, there’s very little to complain about with this vintage rocksteady cut from Soul Jazz’s consistently wonderful Studio One series. (Also, if you were wondering, the Christian themes running through the lyrics of the songs posted this week are just a coincidence.) (Click here to buy it from Soul Jazz.)