Music Break - AWB - Work To Do! - RadioDAZZ

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I'll admit it. I snagged this post from my personal blog http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/ . This song, originally performed by the Isley Brothers, was re-made brilliantly in the 1970s by The Average White Band.

AWB takes it a bit faster, and they actually make it more intense. Listen to the power of the driving, hypnotic refrain, "Work! Work!".

If you'd like, skip the article and go right to the link at the end. I have no way of knowing, and so I won't be insulted. The song is absolutely funkacious. That's all there is to it.
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I believe that every Entrepreneur's and Visionary's greatest challenge is balancing between the business microscope and the business telescope... we are constantly having to shift our focus from the smallest incremental chores (we couldn't pay anyone else enough to take them on!) to the re-framing of the big picture, or the "Grand Design". It is difficult to live in a house while you are building it.

Actionable Items: Spread this picture around. Mass email it. Post it on your Social Media groups and pages. Blow it up to poster size. Mount it on the walls of your office or garage. Frame it. Laminate it. Look at it and laugh! It will, indeed resonate with you.

Actionable Items: Spread this picture around. Mass email it. Post it on your Social Media groups and pages. Blow it up to poster size. Mount it on the walls of your office, school locker, community bulletin board or garage. Frame it. Laminate it. Look at it and laugh! It will indeed resonate with you.
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And now, to the RadioDAZZ selection - "Work To Do" by the Average White Band. Crank up your speakers, put on your sneakers. I dare you to hold still. You won't be able to. In fact, you will be tempted (always yield to temptation when it's about sharing something great) to turn up the volume so that the whole office can hear. Let it fly over those cubicles like the spirit of liberation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IEDC52o0nk 

Douglas E Castle [http://aboutDouglasCastle.blogspot.com]





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It's Your Thing - The Isleys

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I have always liked the Isleys. My old favorite was, and still is "For the Love of You." Whitney Houston did a fine cover of it.

Most everybody seems to remember "Twist and Shout," "Work to Do," "Between the Sheets," and other Isley Brothers standards. In the 1980's, Ron Isley (the self-proclaimed king of 'baby-makin' music' who is prone to dressing like a pimp, albeit less tastefully) made a brief comeback with cousin Chris Jasper, as "Isley/Jasper/Isley" with the mellow but haunting "Caravan of Love."

My friend and fellow guitar enthusiast, J.R. Longyear, who is far more gifted and soulful than he gives himself credit for being, does an amazing job with "It's Your Thing," another Isleys staple.  The fact is that when J.R. and I play this together we are indeed supremely funkacious for a pair of recovering caucasians. The song has a great catchline riff (in E, of course) that involves [I'll give you the short version] the quick convergence of  of an ascending and a descending melody. It is indeed the type of riff that soul guitar fanatics can jam on 'til mama has to yell "suppertime!" three or four times.

There's also an absolutely soulful sax riff throughout. You might find yourself humming this one throughout the day.

Enjoy this.

As usual, if the video player does not materialize, just click on the hyperlink and savor the soul:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMimqfJVedE  (late-night neon effect)





J.R. - Thanks for helping me to remember who I still am inside.
Radio DAZZ: Produced by Douglas Castle