Listen/Download – Dynamic Eight – Sardines and Turnip Greens MP3

Greetings all.

We continue our week of ‘dead-enders’ with one of several one-off funky 45s that came out on Atlantic in the late 60s.

The Dynamic Eight (originally James Stuart and the Dynamic Eight) were a Nashville-based blues/soul band that recorded for the J&J label, and had this 45 (with the flipside ‘Sweet Woman’ misspelled as ‘Street Woman’) picked up for national distribution by Atlantic in 1969.

It’s not hard to see why, since ‘Sardines and Turnip Greens’ is a thumping slice of harmonica-led funk.

Pushed along by a fat-assed bass, horns and the wailing harp (Stuart?), and sporting the kind of title guaranteed to lure in any self-respecting crate digger, ‘Sardines and Turnip Greens’is the kind of record that probably rocked a grip of inner city jukeboxes, but as far as I can tell never bothered the charts (R&B or Pop) in the least.

The flipside of the 45, ‘Street (Sweet) Woman’ is funky blues (as opposed to the bluesy funk on the A side) with a raspy vocal.

The group recorded a second 45 for J&J which was not issued anywhere else.

I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll see you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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