Crate Diggers Portland: Allen “The Ambassador” Thayer’s Top 10 Brazilian “Compactos”

It’s common knowledge amongst armchair pop music historians that he Beatles album Rubber Soul inspired the Beach Boys’ creative genius Brian Wilson to raise the bar for the group’s seminal sleeper album Pet Sounds and that album, in turn, galvanized the Beatles to respond with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. That’s usually where the factoid ends, but there’s another iconic album that emerged from this friendly transatlantic competition that perfectly encapsulates the zeitgeist of late-sixties pop-psychedelia and continues to inspire musicians around the world: the Zombies’ Odessey & Oracle. Now at AD, creative principles Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent dive in.

“Alma Doce” means “Sweet Soul” en Portugues. Check out this sixty-minute mix of early Brazilian Soul related to Tim Maia and his friends done for Records By Mail (aka Craig Moerer) a Portland, OR -based institution

That time I guested on Lil’ Smiley’s radio show playing souldies from the U.S. and Brazil, Sunday, December 6th , 2016

Check out my guest spot over at Fleamarketfunk.com for Big Ups!