Listen/Download – Sam Moultrie – Funky Jerk MP3

Greetings all.

The tune I bring you today is one of the great, meat and potatoes funk 45s.

There’s not a lot of information out there about Sam Moultrie (I couldn’t even locate a picture of him) but what there is seems to indicate that he hailed from (and recorded in) Alabama.

‘Funky Jerk’ was released on the Roulette label in 1969 and aside from a short run in the local Birmingham, AL charts, doesn’t seem to have met with much success.

This is a shame, because not only is ‘Funky Jerk’ a stone solid killer, with some gritty soul shouting by Moultrie, hard drums, and pulsing combo organ, but its flipside, ‘Promised Land’ is a great, mid-tempo number.

‘Funky Jerk’ is one of the best Wilson Pickett-inspired numbers of the era.

Moultrie would go on to record a few more 45s in the early 70s, as well as producing sides for Terry and the Deep South and Ike Strong, both for the Bama label, but after the mid-70s seems to have disappeared (at least from the music business).

I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll see you all next week.

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Keep the faith

Larry

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