Sun showers and silver linings highlight this week's Fresh Friday, lifted up by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Bobby Caldwell, Idris Muhammad, The Intruders, Dexter Wansel, Tony Aiken & Future 2000, and Betty Everett!

Strap in and make ready for an interstellar love odyssey, fueled by the stirring sounds of Smokey Robinson, The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Aretha Franklin, Sam & Dave, Gal Costa, George McCrae, Bettye Swann, Nina Simone, and The Persuasions!

This week's Fresh Friday begets a soulful revolution, ignited by the fiery rhythms of The Joneses, Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces, Denise Lasalle, Fish & Chips, Joe Simon, Elvis, The Dynamics, Vanilla, Betty Davis, and the Street Bangerz...ooh yeah oh yeah oh yeah!

Soothe the black-eyed blues with this week's Fresh Friday, medicated by the soulful tomes of Donovan, Esther Phillips, Jim Sullivan, The Monkees, Sly Stone, Hall & Oates, Gato Barbieri, and Curtis Mayfield!

Receive 2016 with this euphonic decree, led by the soulful stirrings of Labi Saffre, John Lennon, Astrud Gilberto, The Monkees, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Monk Montgomery, Junior Parker & Jimmy McGriff, and Simon & Garfunkel...Shine on!

Close your eyes and surrender to this week's Fresh Friday, numbed by the solitary soul of Sylvia Telles, Cal Tjader, Groove Holmes, Bola Sete, El Chicano, Nara Leão, and Astronauts A Mercurio!

Side A of this week's Fresh Friday is a rhythm monolith, machined by the genius of Gil Scott-Heron, Donald Byrd, Dexter Wansel, George Kranz, Hamilton Bohannon, Bob James, The Loving Sisters, and ESG. My god...it's full of stars!

Explore the outer reaches of cosmic love, fueled by the soulful verve of The Chi-Lites, UPP, The Dynamics, Ramsey Lewis, Leroy Hutson, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Gwen McRae, and Syreeta.

This week's Fresh Friday unwinds poolside with a fruity daiquiri and a sugar-sweet disposition, sunbathed by Fatback Band, Incredible Bongo Band, James Brown, The Dramatics, Rotary Connection, Easy Star All-Stars, Maceo & All the Kings Men, and Cold Blood...C'mon with the C'MON!

This week's Fresh Friday mix, featuring db, is a soothing, soulful salve, applied by the genius of Michael Franks, Coke Escovedo, Deodato, Azymuth, Jean Carn, Clifton Dyson, Kellee Patterson, The Soul Children, and Ike Turner...Use as directed.

As the sweet beat of summer raps softly, let your happiness outshine the morning sun and behold the soulful glory of Shuggie Otis, Stevie Wonder, Hugh Masekela & Hedzolah Soundz, Betty Everett, Kermit the Frog, Manu Dibango, Otis Redding, and Vi Redd!

Five months ago, our lives changed forever as we were united with our son, Miles Zekariyas. Today, his first birthday is soulfully celebrated by the The Ponderosa Twins Plus One, Diana Ross & The Supremes, De La Soul, Helen Reddy, Al Jarreau, Nat Adderley, The Jackson Five, and Mulatu Astatke!

Let the soulful poetry of this week’s Fresh Friday inspire the succulent change in which we all aspire to ripen… with The Rolling Stones, Astrud Gilberto, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, The Incredible Bongo Band, Elis & Tom, Cymande, Sam Spence, Ricardo Marerro & The Group, and The Four Small Faces!

2014 wouldn’t have that new car smell without the sparkle-fresh soul of Johnnie Taylor, Roy Ayer’s Ubiquity, The Crusaders, Junior Parker & Jimmy McGriff, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, The Loving Sisters, and Al Green. Because it ain’t whatcha got, it’s what you do with whatcha got that makes it groovy, baby.

As time runs and passes, passes and runs…relax and flow downstream with this week’s Fresh Friday, held afloat by the introspective soul of Mary Hopkin, David Axelrod, The Last Poets, A Tribe Called Quest, Charles Wright, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Sarstedt, and Junior Parker.

It’s been a stretch since I’ve posted a new mix, and there couldn’t be a better occasion. Today, we travel across the planet to meet our boy. This is our soundtrack… powered by the soul of Labi Siffre, Mulatu Astatke, Manu Dibango, Letta Mbulu, and Aretha Franklin, among others.

Fresh Friday was so Fresh, it has spilled over into Monday, positive and proud, with different strokes delivered by the likes of Bob Dylan, the Merry-Go-Rounds, Ghostface Killah, The Commodores, Gil Scott-Heron, and a few deep groove surprises…co-mixed by db!

It’s time to count it off, as Fresh Friday blasts off this week with purpose, fueled by the premium-unleaded-soul of Mantronix, Eugene Record, Buddy Rich, Bob James with Patti Austin, Labi Siffre, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, and Willie Bobo & the Bo-Gents!

Help ring in the fresh New Year with this funk-injected mix, scientifically calibrated to 13… abetted by the super-soul of The Galactic Force Band, Gloria Jones, Minnie Riperton, The Blackbyrds, David T. Walker, Grant Green, and Reebop!

This week’s Fresh Friday is easier than two Sunday Mornings, assuaged by the melancholy genius of Nat King Cole, Jimmy Smith, Bob Dorough, Sonny Rollins, Nat Adderley, Billie Holliday, and Mulatu Astatke.