Duke and the Drivers

Listen/Download – Duke and the Drivers – Check Your Bucket MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is here, so I will suggest again that you point your interwebs connection toward your favored podcast source (iTunes, etc), or your mobile device at the TuneIn app, to SoulGuyRadio.com or even (dare I say it??) right here at Funky16Corners to get your weekly does of the Funky16Corners Radio Show. I whip a new episode on you each and every Friday, filled with the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl.

We close out the week with something unusual.

Back in the day, when I was scouring the record bins of the universe in search of anything and everything Eddie Bo-related, someone (I forget who, but thanks…) pointed me in the direction of a 1976 LP by a Boston group called Duke and the Drivers.

Duke and the Drivers were an R&B-based bar and club band out of Boston (not unlike their compadres the J. Geils Band) who recorded two albums and a couple of singles for ABC records in the mid 70s.

How they got their hands on Eddie Bo’s ‘Check Your Bucket’ (released in 1970 and an obscurity pretty much everywhere outside of the New Orleans city limits) I do not know. That said, they do a nice, mellow version of the song, and it’s easy to imagine this being a highlight of their live set. The song is apparently a signature number of theirs, and they re-recorded it on a 2003 live album.

I hope you dig the track, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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