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'Colors' (2019)
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Soon enough, the duo had a name, Black Pumas, inspired by Quesada’s fascination with jaguars (his studio has a jaguar logo) and a play on the Black Panthers. The moment of creative truth came on stage, when they debuted their act at an Austin club. “I remember telling my wife not to come — give us a few weeks, because it might suck the first couple of times,” Quesada recalls. Quesada assumed Burton would be seated with his guitar, but to his — and Burton’s — surprise, the singer opted to stand up and perform, drawing on his theatrical background. “When I got to put the guitar down, I found it was very freeing,” says Burton. “It elevated what we were doing.”
“Everything I had ever seen, Eric was playing troubadour, singer-songwriter style with a guitar,” says Quesada. “I didn’t even know that he had James Brown-level frontman chops. As soon as we stepped off the stage the first time, we pulled each other aside and said, ‘There’s a spark here.’”
From there, buzz began building. Black Pumas released “Black Moon Rising” on Spotify, scored a single deal and then a full-album contract with ATO Records (the label co-founded by Dave Matthews and currently home to My Morning Jacket, Brittany Howard, and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard). About a year ago, they scored a Best New Band award at the Austin Music Awards and released their debut, Black Pumas, a few months later. — Rolling Stone
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'Black Moon Rising' (2019)
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'Fire' (2019)
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WHO’S TALKING TO WHO?
Jimmy Kimmel: Seth Rogen, Winston Duke, Gucci Mane featuring Big Walk Dog, guest host Nick Kroll (R 7/16/21)
Jimmy Fallon: Pre-empted
Stephen Colbert: Mindy Kaling, Wally Baram (R 7/14/21)
Seth Meyers: Pre-empted
James Corden: Max Greenfield, Alec Benjamin (R 5/6/21)
SPOILER WARNING
A late night gathering for non serious palaver that does not speak of that night’s show. Posting a spoiler will get you brollywhacked. You don’t want that to happen to you. It's a fate worse than a fate worse than death.
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Ween ‘Voodoo Lady’ (1994)
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LAST WEEK’S POLL: LET'S RUN IT BACK! WITHOUT USING GOOGLE, WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT A TOWN LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES?
Big Bottom 4% 1 vote
Booger Hole 12% 3 votes
Friggin 12% 3 votes
Intercourse 16% 4 votes
Okay 8% 2 votes
Santa Claus 4% 1 vote
Satan's Kingdom 28% 7 votes
Waterproof 16% 4 votes
Satan’s Kingdom was the most popular choice. But, Friggin is not a town located in the US.
Big Bottom, WA; Booger Hole, WV; Intercourse, PA; Okay, OK; Santa Claus, IN; Satan's Kingdom, MA; Waterproof, LA
Friggin was a town in Arkansas. It was renamed to "Flippin". No joke.
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