Spent some hours over my Spring break digging at Neptune Music in Seattle’s U-District. What felt like a vacation was really a day off in a basement of refuge. I didn’t find any Ann Peebles records like I hoped to, nor did I pick up all I had in my sights. This is what I did get:

This James Brown cut “Hot” is almost note for note the same as “Fame” by David Bowie. There’s a story behind this apparently. Dave, the Neptune’s owner, explained it to me something like, the two artists being in the same studio together and David Bowie overheard James Brown recording “Hot” and well, they must have worked something out.

While digging through the 45s, I came across two from the Jazz section which both had names referencing Native Americans in one way or another (Redskin, Redskin Rhumba, Cherokee). This caught my attention just because they were both jazz records and I recall coming across other material from the same time period with similar titles for songs. The questions that came to mind were:

How much of this material was released during the early to mid twentieth century?

What is the connection, if any, of Native Peoples and the music other than the titles?

Is this some kind of a theme from that era?

Many other questions…

I’ll continue digging this stuff up and see what I can find out. Until then, check out this record store:

Neptune Music
4344 Brooklyn Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 632-0202