Tonight I want to take you all the way back to 2011, a time when Kennedy was a DJ in Los Angeles and not a host on Fox News. Indeed it is Kennedy who introduced me to the song A Long Time by Detroit native Mayer Hawthorne. Kennedy featured the song during one of her radio shows and I fell in love with it.
The song is a straight forward love song about Hawthorne's hometown of Detroit and a tribute to the Motown sound that originated there. The video for the song is a great adaptation of a local dance program in the vein of Soul Train or American Bandstand.
If you are a child of the seventies like me that probably brought back some great memories.
I normally don't do this but I found a really great fan made video for A Long Time that features some of the African American pioneers of Tap Dancing.
Discussing How Do You Do, Hawthorne says, "I found my own unique sound on this album, which I'm excited about." The album has a vintage sound, which involves twelve '70s inspired tracks, filled with orchestral pop and funky bass lines—"I've taken what I can from the classic heroes of soul and updated it with the music I grew up listening to and loving like Public Enemy and Juan Atkins and Cybotron." He first found his musical voice in hip-hop and rap from his father, who plays in a band in Detroit, Michigan.
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