Jheri Curl June: Eddie Murphy’s “Party All the Time”
This Friday, we'll be posting a special Jheri Curl June edition of our podcast series-within-a-series, Dystopian Book Club, on the memoirs of Mr. Rick James. It's a fun conversation--after a...
Jheri Curl June: Junie Morrison’s “Show Me Yours”
Back in May when we did our Memorial Day podcast, I was sorely unaware of Junie Morrison’s music. Sure, I had heard the Ohio Players’ albums from the early '70s,...
Jheri Curl June: Stevie Wonder’s “Love Light in Flight”
It's a well-known fact that most white music critics don't "get" '80s Stevie Wonder. And for a long time, I was no exception: I took as gospel the truism that...
Jheri Curl June: Kashif’s “Ooh Love”
Last month, we recorded our annual Memorial Day podcast, a budding tradition in which we commemorate (and lightly mock) many of the important musical artists we've lost since the previous...
Jheri Curl June: Kleeer’s “Tonight”
Kleeer had a rocky road to Jheri Curldom. Originally conceived in 1972 as the Jam Band, the backing band for the Choice Four, they later became their own entity, changed their name to Pipeline,...
Jheri Curl June: O’Bryan’s “Lovelite”
I stumbled upon O'Bryan sometime last year, in one of my annual trawls through the underbelly of the Internet looking for fresh Jheri Curl Music. Born O'Bryan McCoy Burnette II,...