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Blood Groove When smooth continental vampire Rudolfo Zginski is staked in 1915, it should be the end of him. But he resurrects in Memphis sixty years later to find a world he must quickly master, and more peril than he ever expected. In addition to the automobiles, polyester fashions and racial tensions of 1975, he encounters four new vampires who know their nature only from the movies, and must evade a trap set for him half a century earlier that might ensnare them all....
Coming in Spring 2009
from Tor Books
That Blood Groove Mood
An iPod list for the funky.NOTE: Seven of these songs are from the 1979 album Streets of Fire by the late Duncan Browne.
I found this music in a cassette bargain bin in Jackson, TN back in the Eighties. It instantly became one of my favorite albums, the more so because it was so unknown here; to acquire this album on CD, I had to rely on a friend in Japan. Even now, there's no single CD release that fully includes all the tracks from the original album.
A tremendous songwriter and guitarist, Browne missed stardom but left behind sublime tunes, both lyrical and instrumental, that for me evoke a kind of timeless urban nightscape perfect for vampires and other lurkers in the dark. There's nothing Goth about his sound, though: it's all clean, crisp, perfect construction married with an unmistakably English pop understatement. See the video for the song "Fauvette" for a taste.
Here is a a rare clip of the man himself performing the song "The Wild Places," from the album of the same name.
The List:
Fauvette by Duncan Browne
See the video.
Flashlight by Parliament
from the CD Funkentelechy Vs. Placebo Syndrome
See the video
American Heartbeat by Duncan Browne
Tear the Roof Off the Sucker by Parliament
from the CD Mothership Connection
See the video
She's Just a Fallen Angel by Duncan Browne
Oops Upside Your Head by The Gap Band
from the CD The Gap Band Gold
See the video
Streets of Fire by Duncan Browne
The Backstabbers by the O'Jays
from the CD The Essential O'Jays
See the video
Nina Morena by Duncan Browne
Love Rollercoaster by the Ohio Players
from the CD Honey
See the video
Things to Come by Duncan Browne
Fire by the Ohio Players
from the CD Fire
See the video
Restless Child of Change by Duncan Browne
See the video
Cancion de Cuna: Street Echoes (for M.) by Duncan Browne
(c) 2007 by Alex Bledsoe. All rights reserved.