Joe Thomas – Chitlins and Cuchifritos
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Greetings all
The end of the week is here, so it’s time for our regularly scheduled announcement that the Funky16Corners Radio Show will be return to the airwaves of the interwebs Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you cannot join me at airtime, you can keep up with the show by subscribing to it as a podcast in iTunes.
The record I bring you today is another one from way back when I first started getting my fingers dusty in the crates of the hinterlands.
Of course, back then I was digging without a portable, and depended on my as yet undeveloped Spidey-sense, as well as a grab bag of visual/verbal clues to lead me down the funky path.
Working with even that somewhat spare tool-kit, it was nigh impossible to pass up a record like Joe Thomas’s ‘Chitlins and Cuchifritos’.
First of all, that title, y’know?
Second, there’s that very groovy Today records label with the big peace sign on it.
How could I pass it up?
Good thing I didn’t, because when I got it home and slipped it under the needle I discovered that the record in question combined some of my favorite flavors.
Number one, it’s funky.
Number two, funky flute! You all know I dig some funky flute, and Joe Thomas (an artist with whom I would become much better acquainted over the years) was one of the best.
‘Chitlins and Cuchifritos’ is a delightful bit of atmospheric Latin-influenced funk, with all of the above listed ingredients wrapped inside a very funky bass line, as well as a chorus singing the title over and over again.
It is, like the Willie Bobo number we opened with this week, very nice for the ears and the feet (should you choose to dance) as well.
I’ve had this record in my crates for a long, long time and I still dig it the most.
I hope you do too, and I’ll see you all next week.
Keep the faith
Larry
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I’m diggin’ this one sideways! What a great find.
Totally badass, with a beautiful bass heavy arrangement by the one and only Chico O’Farrill
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