Alex Williams (left, found in an old issue of Billboard)

 

Listen/Download – Alex Williams and the Mustangs – Soul Strut Pt1 MP3

Listen/Download – Alex Williams and the Mustangs – Soul Strut Pt2 MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week os upon us, and so I will remind you once again that Friday nights at 9PM is Funky16Corners Radio Show time. You can listen on Viva Radio, or you can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, or grab an MP3 here at the blog.

The record I bring you today is one of those funk 45s that I knew about for a long time, finally bagged a copy and was dismayed to discover that there was almost no info out there about it.

What I can tell you is that Alex Williams and the Mustangs hailed from the vicinity of Atlanta, GA, and they recorded several 45s (for Rose, Soultrack and Jewel), usually in a bluesy funk style between the late 60s and the early 70s.

‘Soul Strut Pts 1&2’ is an interesting study in contrasts.

Part two, the instrumental half of the record, is a groovy, fairly standard (if a little muddy and abruptly ended) bit of funky southern soul.

Part one, the vocal half of things, contains one of the most stunningly off-key, inept and possibly intoxicated sounding vocals I’ve ever heard. The band is in good shape, but the singer sounds as if he was too wasted to set foot in the studio, so they locked him out in the alley and hung the microphone out the window. It’s that wild.

Either way, it’s a cool 45, and I hope you dig it.

See you on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

 

 

 

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