3:33⅓ King Pari - Sunshine

Today the sun felt great and that prompted me to pull out one of my favorite jams. Cameron Kinghorn is a wildly talented vocalist who is now working out in LA but was basically on every stage in Minnesota for about half a decade. I had the chance to play music with him a couple times and it was clear he was one of those individuals who got music on every single level, the nuts, the bolts, the heart, the people, the scales, the who the fuck cares about scales. He got it all. Unbelievable. He did a gig with me where he sang MY SONGS. Songs I wrote and he could remember the whole shape of a melody just by writing down what scale degree the line started on. And my words were clunky, with lots of syllables and strange turns and he handled them ably. Unbelievable. And on the ride to this gig in Fargo he was just high spirits, engaged, conversational and positive.

His partner Joe is an incredibly positive, capable musician who completely leveled up with his work in King Pari. He was the leader of a group called PHO that always created great funk music, but seemed to always play it safe and keep it kind of jam band adjacent (even though they packed incredible skills into those jams). But he arrived as a real creative force in King Pari. They are out in LA blowing minds and hopefully one day they’ll eclipse their current level of acclaim, but they are already doing pretty darn good.

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