Reviews

Boscoe

This one was causing all the ballyhoo a couple years a go before it got the reissue treatment.  I managed to have a friend from Chicago actually pick this up…

Filed under: Music, Funk, Jazz, Soul

Funky Super Fly

Raw as hayle indie funk release from back in the day.  Bobby Williams and his group are a brand of James Brown knockoffs but damn from a funk perspective it is…

Filed under: Music, Funk, Soul

Dream Queen

Here’s a rarity that came upon about 5 years a go.  I was at Big Dog Records in Wayne, PA and found this just lamping on top of a stack of easy listening…

Filed under: Music, Funk, Jazz, Soul

Black Sugar

Feel Your Groove

Great jazz inspired blues and rock LP from the hey day of early 70s Capitol recordings that is not an easy find. It reminds me of Bob Dorough’s “Multiplication…

Filed under: Music, Funk, Jazz, Rock

Prelude To…

Now we’re talking!  This record never fails to amaze me in spots.  Coined by some as quintessential folk/funk, it also has a lot of soul thanks to…

Filed under: Music, Funk, Rock, Soul

Wheedle’s Groove

The copiously detailed liner notes on “Wheedles Groove” talk of a local flavor bubbling up in Seattle, percolating like so much coffee from the street level and…

Filed under: Music, Funk, Jazz, Soul, Soundtracks

DUSTY FINGERS VOLUME 11

Back with yet another volume of the crate staple “Dusty Fingers” compilation aimed at budding hip hop producers and avid beat fiends. The Strictly Breaks…

Filed under: Music, Funk, Soundtracks

Hanged Man OST

I can’t really get with these Euro soundtrack/library LPs like I used to.  I’ve given up my dream of being the next Scott Storch and now it sounds…

Filed under: Music, Funk, Jazz, Soundtracks

Spreading Love

So this is One Way before they became the mega funk outfit One Way and moved to MCA.  The real cut on here to look for is the marathon mellowed out Patrick Adams-esque…

Filed under: Music, Disco, Funk, Soul