Tears for Frankie Knuckles

In honor of the late, great Frankie Knuckles, the “godfather of house music,” who died yesterday at the age of 59, let’s listen to “Tears.” From Rolling Stone’s tribute:

By 1977… Knuckles moved to Chicago, where Robert Williams, an old friend of both, was opening what became the Warehouse. A narrow building with oblong windows at 206 South Jefferson St. (today it’s a law office), the Warehouse was where Knuckles began honing his sound and style — “a wide cross-section of music,” as he told The Guardian in 2011. His mélange of disco classics, weird indie-label soul curiosities, the occasional rock track, European synth-disco and all manner of rarities would eventually be codified (at Importes, Etc., the record shop where Knuckles bought much of his music) as “House Music” — short, of course, for the Warehouse.

[RS]