{"id":17574,"date":"2013-07-15T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T19:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=17574"},"modified":"2013-07-15T11:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T19:04:43","slug":"watch-charles-bradley-and-the-extraordinaires-perform-confusion-on-kutx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-07\/watch-charles-bradley-and-the-extraordinaires-perform-confusion-on-kutx\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Charles Bradley and the Extraordinaires Perform &#8220;Confusion&#8221; on KUTX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorite soul-revivalists, <a href=\"http:\/\/thecharlesbradley.com\/\"><strong>Charles Bradley<\/strong><\/a> (aka &#8220;<strong>The Screaming Eagle of Soul&#8221;<\/strong>) and the stalwart <strong>Extraordinaires<\/strong> (formerly the <strong>Menahan Street Band<\/strong>) recently checked in to <strong>KUTX Studios<\/strong> and performed new song <em><strong>Confusion<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The beauty of <strong>Bradley<\/strong> is he may look and sound throwback (<strong>James Brown<\/strong> the most obvious touchstone), but he<strong><\/strong> brings a uniquely keen sensibility and a hard-fought hardness to the musical surroundings, and never keeps you in the dark as to where his heart and soul lie.\u00a0 <em><strong>Confusion<\/strong><\/em> is from <strong>Bradley&#8217;s<\/strong> new critically-acclaimed album, <strong>Victim of Love<\/strong>.\u00a0 The song obviously has roots in <strong>The Temptations&#8217;<\/strong> 1970 hit <em><strong>Ball of Confusion<\/strong><\/em>, (which you can listen to at bottom), but <strong>Bradley<\/strong> gives the state of affairs a more personal spin that is unrelentingly captivating.\u00a0 Bravo <strong>Mr. Bradley<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LDADBUPHt3U\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-9poCAuYT-s\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorite soul-revivalists, Charles Bradley (aka &#8220;The Screaming Eagle of Soul&#8221;) and the stalwart Extraordinaires (formerly the Menahan Street Band) recently checked in to KUTX Studios and performed new song Confusion.\u00a0 The beauty of Bradley is he may look and sound throwback (James Brown the most obvious touchstone), but he brings a uniquely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}