Funky16Corners Radio v.85 – Open For Business
Funky16Corners Radio v.85 – Open For Business
Playlist
Junior Walker & the All Stars – Baby You Know You Ain’t Right (Soul)
Masqueraders – I Don’t Want Nobody To Lead Me On (Wand)
Mighty Hannibal – Jerkin’ The Dog (Shurfine)
Syl Johnson – Dresses Too Short (Twinight)
Joe Hicks – Home Sweet Home Pt2 (Scepter)
Andre Williams – Loose Juice (Wingate)
Dynamics – Ain’t No Sun (Since You’ve Been Gone) (Cotillion)
Otis Goodwin – Mini Skirts (Walker-Reeder)
Junior Wells – Up In Heah (Bright Star)
James Young & the Housewreckers – Barking Up the Wrong Tree (Jet Stream)
Toddlin’ Town Sounds – The Dud (Toddlin’ Town)
Larry Birdsong – Digging Your Potatoes (Ref-O-Ree)
James Barnes and the Agents – Good and Funky (Golden Hit)
Sir Lattimore Brown – Shake and Vibrate (SS7)
Lou Courtney – Rubber Neckin’ (Chick Check’n) (Verve)
Kenny Smith – Go For Yourself (RCA)
Lee Moses – Day Tripper (Musicor)
Listen/Download 90MB/256KB Mixed MP3
Welcome back to the ongoing saga of the Funky16Corners blog, its author, a huge, ever-pulsing mountain of records and his efforts to rein it all in and make some sense of it (both physically and philosophically).
I spent the first part of the weekend checking out the mighty DJ Prestige doing an in-store set at Hold Fast in Asbury Park, while also (of course) picking up a handful of LPs to celebrate Record Store Day. Pres brought the heat (as expected) and then the fam and I headed out for some of those good Long Branch hot dogs and a couple of other errands, followed by some serious work in the Funky16Corners Record Vault and Podcasting Nerve Center.
The renovation is almost done, with some fine tuning remaining here and there, with the disposal of much trash yet to be completed (I suspect a trip or two to the town dump maybe in order). After undoing a veritable Gordian knot of old-school computer equipment (as well as moving/storing a huge amount of data, most of it blog-related, onto a new 1TB drive), it’ll all have to be reconfigured over the next few days. I have my work cut out for me, but things are going to be so much easier when I’m done that it’ll be more than worth it.
This early and unexpected edition of the Funky16Corners Radio thing is evidence of said project, and a small bit of celebration that it is in fact coming to fruition. The first thing I did (after getting the room somewhat organized) was the installation of the home DJ setup (see above). This had been both a long time coming, and extremely satisfying when it was finished.
Following a few days of getting all my sonic ducks in a row (cableing, knob-turning, equalizing and whatnot), I hooked up the digital recorder, grabbed my road cases and pulled out a small stack of 45s and mixed them live, on the spot.
Aside from a certain, unifying feel (funk, soul and funky soul, natch), I didn’t concentrate all that much on pre-selection of the tunes herein. I grabbed something interesting to kick things off, and as that record rotated, I pulled a handful of others out of the box, picked one (or two, or three, depending on how deep a handful fate was dealing me) that I thought might fit, cued it up on the second turntable and repeated the process until a little over forty-five minutes later the needle on the last record hit the run-off groove. Not unlike how I do it when I’m spinning at the Asbury Park 45 Sessions or any other live date. It’s one of those things where you hope you’ve stocked your record box properly, and you let inspirado take you by the hand and lead where it will.
There are a lot of old faves here, as well as a couple of tracks that will return to be blogged on their own in the not too distant future. As has been the policy with ‘live’ mixes, there is no accompanying zip file, but remember that this is not going to be the ongoing F16Radio format. Think of it as a special bonus to stuff into your ears on Monday.
I hope you dig the mix, and I’ll be back later in the week with something groovy.
Peace
Larry
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Themocracy
Isn’t that Junior Wells doing ” Up In Heah” ?
No Zip File – wtf – pps: u guys stupid??
@Randy – You are correct (must have been typing with my elbows again). I just fixed it.
@Soulbrother – WTF yourself. Does this look like f*cking iTunes? Read the post.
Solid. As ever.
Thanks John!
Another sweet set. The only comment I have is that the mix sounds very quiet. Turn up those grooves! But it’s no biggie. Many thanks for your hard work!
Good work Larry. I’ve made this the inaugural live mixed streamed through my Squeezebox Touch (streaming as I type this). This is how I plan to dig on the non-zipped sets from now on. If I may be so bold, it would be cool if you branded these mixes with a numbering scheme of their own.
Nice mix Larry.
Congrats on the new DJ-ing setup type thingummy-jig.
Can’t believe people wanna come on here and complain!
Get a grip, you moaning people!!!
Excuse my French, but FFS!!!
Keep On Truckin’, Larry! 🙂
Stu
@Dave – I think I figured out what the problem is re volume. The next one should be better.
@Michael – You’re reading my mind! I’m going to introduce a ‘live’ mix series, set apart from Funky16Corners Radio that will include some guest mixes from DJs I respect. Look for it soon.
@Stu – Thanks!
Hi Larry,
Excellent mix as always and i really dig the picture of your setup: that old clerk’s lamp looks wonderful with those wheels of steel! The map of American Lighthouses on the wall is also nice. Is that your former band on the picture above turntable 1? Thanks for the grooves and peace, Ingmar
Ingmar
You have amazing eyesight! That is indeed the Phantom Five, with an autographed pic of Eddie Bo right above it.
That lamp was perfect because it fit on the desk right behind the mixer.
L