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Jheri Curl June: Carl Carlton’s “Private Property”
It’s a musical sequel equal parts heartwarming (Carl’s found love!) and offputting; one hopes there’s a third song in the trilogy where he finally realizes that bad mama jamas’ bodies belong to themselves.
June 19, 2023
Jheri Curl June: The Bar-Kays’ “She Talks to Me with Her Body”
Few groups in the history of R&B have been as long-lived, or as chameleonic, as the Bar-Kays. The Memphis group got their start in the mid-’60s as a session band for Stax Records, with songs like 1967’s “Soul Finger” fitting squarely into the label’s signature sound. At the turn of the decade, like many other soul groups,…
June 5, 2017

Jheri Curl June: Carl Carlton’s “Private Property”