Baby Don’t You Do It

Posted by Lance Davis - April 30, 2014 - Marvin Gaye, The Band

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My recent double dip into the Marvin Gaye discography was a welcome return home for me. When The Adios Lounge began 6 years ago, I envisioned it as a place where I’d explore classic R&B and country more or less equally with whatever rock band I was currently obsessing over. However, within the first […]

You Know a Man Ain’t Supposed to Cry

Posted by Lance Davis - April 18, 2014 - Berry Gordy, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Norman Whitfield

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When I recently paid tribute to the 30th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s death, I should’ve known he’d come up again. That’s the way things work in a plate of shrimp universe. You start thinking about Marvin Gaye, not only because of his death on April 1, but because of his 75th birthday on April […]

Marvin Gaye, So Gallantly Streaming

Posted by Lance Davis - April 1, 2014 - Marvin Gaye, National Anthem

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30 years ago today Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his crazy-ass father, a day shy of his 45th birthday. I was one of probably millions of people who thought the rumor of his death was a lame, perverse April Fool’s Day joke, but rumor soon hardened into cold-blooded fact. Marvin was dead. He […]