Son Little performing stay at WXPN’s Free At Midday Live performance in November 2019, recorded stay for World Cafe

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Son Little performing stay at WXPN’s Free At Midday Live performance in November 2019, recorded stay for World Cafe

Jamie Stow/WXPN

The primary time I heard Son Little’s music “The River” again in 2014, it utterly floored me. With a mixture of R&B and soul, it concurrently sounded each timeless and of the second, far more than a easy throwback tune.

Son Little’s musical palette continues to hit all of these musical candy spots, however on his newest album, Aloha, out Jan. 31, he is pushed his sound even additional. There wasn’t a flange impact on early R&B data from greater than 60 years in the past, however there may be on this file, recorded in Paris and produced by Renaud Letang.

On this session, we’ll talk about Son Little’s sound and influences, plus the way you recover from dropping all of your songs resulting from a fried onerous drive. However first we get began with a particular solo acoustic efficiency of “Hey Rose.” Pay attention within the participant above.