R.I.P. Charles Bradley

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R.I.P. Charles Bradley

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I first heard Charles Bradley when he was on a compilation that covered Nirvana songs. Here was a guy just starting his career in his golden years after being a background performer for the greats and doing a Soul cover of an iconic Grunge band. Charles wasn't a gimmick though but that song was a gateway that Soul had the potential to return at anytime with the purity it once had IF it had the right vessel. Charles was that vessel and while there were other murmurs of new life in the genre Charles was the most vital. He brought the feeling of Soul back into Soul. There was no minimalist chill shit here. He was either bursting with a horn blasting funk jam or belting out a ballad that was anything but tender. His ballads were an aching aural canvas. You were either moving externally or internally with Charles Bradley and there was no middle ground. There's so much to post with Charles but my favorite performance was this intimate as intimate gets stripped down performance of Charles giving us a gift. A real story was told through an artist that was as painful and cathartic for him to sing as it was for us to hear. It rarely gets this real. Charles already had me feeling sadness before this day but it was also healing as well. Hopefully this will be the right mix of sadness and healing to take this loss. R.I.P. Charles! <3

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To be honest, I didn't know about his stomach cancer, so this one came as a shock to me. What a fantastic singer, who sadly got to share his talent with the world way too late in his late. A huge loss for soul music. He'll be missed. Man, his cover of Black Sabbath's "Changes".... goose bumps!

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another fallen brother Charles "The Screaming Eagle" Bradley I was introduction to his music through my love of
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and the awesome Daptone records where as few artists sadly he only found fame late in life his debut on DapTone in 2011 a real talent show stopper R.I.P Charles Bradley
 

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