Clifton White and His Royal Knights – The Warm Up Pt1

By , March 28, 2017 12:12 pm

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Listen/Download – Clifton White and the Royal Knights – The Warm Up Pt1 MP3

Greetings all.

I haven’t been able to discover much about Clifton White and the Royal Knights, other than that they probably hailed from Louisiana, and recorded for the Goldband subsidiary ANLA in the late 60s and early 70s.

‘The Warm Up’ (released in 1968) has been in my crates for a long, long time, no doubt picked up during one of my periodic New Orleans/Louisiana vinyl dragnets from back in the day.

Not only is ‘The Warm Up’ a great slice of relatively low-fi soul/funk, but it’s worth picking up for the spoken word jive as well.
You get the introductions, including the best of all, when White (I assume) decides to ‘give the drummer some’, at which point he introduces:

‘Leroy, is better known as MOOCHIE!’,

and the back and forth between White and a female singer who exalts the keyboard player,

‘Sweet Daddy Black Keys Foster playing on the white keys tonight!’.

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I haven’t been able to find a picture of the band, but I did track down this 1969 clipping from a Beaumont, TX college paper about Clifton White and the Royal Knights playing a party on campus!

There’s some great, hard charging action from the band, and the musicianship has a certain roughness to it, especially the bass and drums (even the lead guitar) which – while not bad – are not exactly tight and slick, giving ‘The Warm Up’ a certain soul/garage feel that I dig.

I hope you dig it, too, and I’ll see you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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