The Family’s self-titled Paisley Park album debuted in August 1985, and was the first and only collection from the group on the label. Thanks to the Purple Avengers, a motley group of Prince music enthusiasts and historians assembled by Deejay UMB on Twitter, who, along with Edgar Cruize, created the #PrinceTwitterThread series, we’re showing this […]
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The Gift of Grief and ‘Girl Bros.’
In celebration of Wendy & Lisa’s brilliant ‘Girl Bros.,’ released 4 September 1998, I decided to re-post a blog I wrote in 2014 about how the album has guided me through tremendous loss and how the music endures all these years later. October 1998. I had just moved to Burbank, and was getting settled into […]
Artist to Artist: Jill Jones—She Is
I had the extraordinary pleasure of interviewing singer/songwriter Jill Jones in 2016 as part of my Artist to Artist column for the now-defunct SoulTrain.com–just a couple months before Prince passed, as she prepared to release her album ‘I Am.’ This week, I’m joining a crew of fellow Prince music heads, aka the Purple Avengers, for […]
Please Send All Your Moonbeam Levels 2 Me…
On the 5th anniversary of Prince’s passing, I’m revisiting the words I wrote just hours after the news broke in 2016. “So here I sit in my lonely room, looking 4 my sunshine…” 11:01AM, Thursday, April 21, 2016. It’s quiet. I’ve turned off the TV to shut out the annoying noise that is ABC’s The […]
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