If you don’t already know who Son Little is, trust us, you will soon… cross our hearts and hope to die.
The singer-songwriter who goes by the name of Aaron Livingston is one of the best kept musical secrets of 2014 and now with the release of his debut Things I Forgot EP the cat is ‘bout to be out the bag.
Even if you’re not familiar with the name (either in Son Little or Aaron Livingston mode), without knowing it you might’ve heard him sing on The Roots’ joints Sleep or our fave of theirs Guns Are Drawn, and he also collaborated with RJD2 as part of the group Icebird which you can file under 'more music we slept on’.
If you need a starting point, check out this all kinds of good live version of Cross My Heart taken off his new EP.
Around the same time that our resident wordsmith Wax Volcanic caught up with the man himself for a chat that translated into a brilliant interview, we hit him up for a playlist of tunes that he was likely to play to get into weekend mode.
Below is what we got back, and the resulting playlist has snatched the crown of our fave TGIF to date. We hope you dig both this and him as much as we do.
TGIF WITH SON LITTLE
GNG BNG - Flying Lotus
Can It Be All So Simple - Wu-Tang Clan
Mind Mischief - Tame Impala
Charmed Life - Icebird
Always Together - The Dells
The Wizard - Black Sabbath
Disco//very - Warpaint
Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix
I Asked For Water - Howlin’ Wolf
Red 2 Go - Danny Brown
Money Trees - Kendrick Lamar
Paris - Little Dragon
Qualify and Satisfy - Funkadelic
Spirit Ache - Icebird
Break the Bank - Schoolboy Q
Sleep - The Roots
Friends - Nas & Damian Marley
Love Movin’ - J Dilla feat. Black Thought
9mm Goes Bang- Boogie Down Productions
Lonnie’s Lament- John Coltrane
Son Little’s Things I Forgot EP is available now through Anti- Records where all good tunes are sold | streamed.
