Fred Wesley – Still On the Loose
Fred Wesley
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Greetings all.
The 45 you see before you today was a very pleasant surprise when I picked it up some years ago.
Fred Wesley was of course familiar to me (and should be to you) as the trombonist/bandleader with the JBs as well as the Funkadelic-adjacent Horny Horns.
‘Still On the Loose’, released in 1980, was from the period after Fred’s George Clinton years, when Wesley was attempting to establish himself as a bandleader under his own name.
He recorded the ‘House Party’ album for Curtom, which was at the time being distributed by RSO Records.
‘Still On the Loose’ is a mellow, yet still funky, era-specific sound with echoes of the P-Funk, with traces of disco on the edges.
Fred not only plays much ‘bone (apologies to JB) but also takes lead vocal duties (as well as producing).
The result is a dance-floor friendly number with a sing along chorus.
The ‘House Party’ album made it into the R&B Top 40, but according to Wesley’s autobiography ‘Hit Me Fred’ RSO dropped Curtom from distribution as the record was gaining steam and killed its momentum.
It’s a groovy one, and I hope you dig it.
See you all next week.
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Keep the faith
Larry
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