7/17/2007 Dig Up The Roots

The Motown sound makes me think of my early childhood, growing up outside Chicago and discovering radios. There is an optimism in these sounds for a world that could have/should have, but didn't happen.

We hit some of the hits but featured a lot of previously unrealsed material from the literal basement vault of the early studio in Detroit. Stevie Wonder when he was 13, unissued tracks by the likes of The Velvelettes, Temptations, and on and on. Around the same time, across the pond, something similar was going on. Northern Soul and Blue Eyed Soul were driving scooters and parka clad Mods to a frenzy with the likes of Cyril Davis, Chris Farlowe and Chris Clark. Sometimes it's hard to tell which side of the ocean each recording came from, but in a way, that's the point.