Five4Friday - 1/30/2015

This week's Five4Friday...

1. Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox - Habits (feat. Haley Reinhart) (2015) Very cool 1930's jazz cover of Tove Lo tune with knockout vocals by Ms. Reinhart.
Habits - Vintage 1930s Jazz Tove Lo Cover ft. Haley Reinhart @ YouTube

2. Arctic Monkeys - Snap Out of It (2013) Infectious rocker by the Sheffield boys.
Live Acoustic @YouTube
Official Video @YouTube

3. Sleater-Kinney - Surface Envy (2015) First album in almost 10 years and killer rock tune. Yep that's Carrie Brownstein's band, who you may know from "Portlandia".
Live on CONAN 1/20/2015 @ TeamCoco

4. Etta James - A Sunday Kind of Love (1961) On Jan. 20, 2012, we lost a great voice.
At Last / A Sunday Kind of Love (Live Audio) Montreux Jazz Festival 1977 @ YouTube

5. Soulive & Chaka Khan - Back Again (2006) Gettin' the funk out for a Friday.
Soulive w/John Scofield - What You See Is What You Get - Live at Brooklyn Bowl 3/18/2014 @ YouTube
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Tell Me Something Good - Live on The Midnight Special 1974 @ YouTube

- Salud!

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