R.I.P. Teddy Bear

This morning's news that Teddy Pendergrass has passed on comes just months after we first started to discover his silky genius. For years, we considered Teddy Bear the epitome of old-person music, and rarely listened to the records of his that we'd somehow accumulated over the years. (When you're a vinyl geek, you have a way of accruing random albums—often because you volunteer to take throwaways off folks' hands.) But then back in October we heard Big Boi's "Shine Blockas", which uses a...