Right here in Philadelphia, the place we produce World Cafe, a big a part of our pop DNA has been the music of Philadelphians Daryl Corridor and John Oates. Because the fall of 1972, when the pop duo launched their debut, Complete Oats, they’ve delivered many years of hits, with songs like “You Make My Desires,” “Kiss On My Checklist,” “Sara Smile” and “I Cannot Go For That (No Can Do)” which have change into the material of life for a number of generations. Whereas their debut was an album Oates instructed Roots drummer Questlove on the Questlove Supreme podcast in March that “hardly anyone is aware of about,” the album has maybe the best tune about Philadelphia, “Fall In Philadelphia.” With that tune, they perpetually etched an necessary place in our hearts, and yearly within the fall, it nonetheless sounds nice on the radio stations it is performed on.
Quick ahead 50 years. Whereas Corridor and Oates proceed to tour, over time they’ve every launched solo information. Right this moment, Oates has returned with the primary in a collection of digital singles, “Pushin’ A Rock.” As their worldwide spokesperson, Oates has teamed up with Movember, the worldwide males’s nonprofit, in time for Movember’s annual fall marketing campaign the place males develop mustaches to lift consciousness and funds for males’s well being points, specializing in psychological well being, suicide prevention and testicular and prostate cancers.
“Pushin’ A Rock,” says Oates, was initially written for a 2014 album he was engaged on referred to as Good Highway to Observe. Not making the reduce, he revisited the tune throughout the pandemic, collaborating with producer and author Nathan Paul Chapman. Lyrically, it makes use of a Sisyphean metaphor about overcoming adversity and wrestle. In regards to the tune, Oates says, ” ‘Pushin’ A Rock’ is a rallying cry to everybody who strives to beat life’s struggles and challenges. It is a common theme and an necessary message for our time.”
Music has the unbelievable capacity to supply solace and reflection, and “Pushin’ A Rock” does simply that, with a deep, soulful groove and people signature no mistaking who it’s in spite of everything these years vocals. “It is very important me to talk out about males’s points and shine a lightweight on issues that always go unstated,” says Oates.
