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Listen/Download – The JBs – Music For the People MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is here, and so is the Funky16Corners Radio Show podcast, which drops every Friday with the best in soul, funk, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, check it out on Mixcloud, or grab an MP3 right here at the blog.

Today’s selection is yet another of the countless chapters in the saga of the mighty JBs.

‘Music for the People’ written by “Sweet” Charles Sherrell, and released in 1977 (as the flipside of ‘Crossover’, actually the backing track of Lyn Collins ‘We Want To Parrty Parrty Parrty’) is a funky groover in the late-period JBs stylee.

It has that clockwork James Brown groove to it – dig the bass and guitar – and a group vocal running on top of things. Deep in the disco era, it still delivers the funk (especially the reference to ‘sardine sandwiches’!) even if the production is a tiny bit slick.

It is still – as are all JBs records – essential, so go out and get you some.

See you on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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