{"id":1026,"date":"2010-11-11T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T21:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2012-07-23T21:18:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T02:18:51","slug":"jake-wade-and-the-soul-searchers-searching-for-soul-pts-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers – Searching For Soul Pts 1&2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers – Searching For Soul Pt1 <\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download -Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers – Searching For Soul Pt2 <\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greetings all. <\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

The end of the week is upon us and I don\u2019t know about you kids, but my head is in a deep funk place right about now, so hows about some\u2019o that (deep funk, that is<\/em>)??<\/p>\n

First \u2013 there\u2019s always a \u2018first\u2019, isn\u2019t there \u2013 it behooves me, as proprietor of the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong>, to remind you all that if it\u2019s Friday (and it almost is) it\u2019s time for my latest excursion into the ether. This week\u2019s edition of the Funky16Corners Radio Show on Viva radio <\/strong><\/a>(Friday\u2019s at 9PM) is an all distaff affair with the finest in funk and soul as interpreted by the ladies. There\u2019s lots of fine sounds, from lots of fine ladies, so make sure to fall by and fill your ears up with some of the good stuff.<\/p>\n

That out of the way, now is being the time for the aforementioned deep funk.<\/p>\n

Back in the olden days, where I was first being introduced to the niceties of old school funk via the UK \u2018Sound of Funk\u2019 comps, the songs that blew my mind immediately (on Volume One if memory serves) were \u2018Iron Leg\u2019 by Mickey and the Soul Generation<\/strong>, and \u2018Hector\u2019 by the Village Callers<\/strong>, both still huge favorites and mainstays of my record box.<\/p>\n

There were several burners on that comp, but one in particular evaded me for a long time, so much so that it was pushed into the recessed of my fevered mind, where it would be pried loose many years later when the mighty DJ Prestige <\/strong>dropped the needle on it at an edition of the late, lamented Asbury Park 45 Sessions.<\/p>\n

That record was \u2018Searching for Soul\u2019 by Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Naturally, once it got it\u2019s hooks into me, I set out in search of my own copy.<\/p>\n

Of course, as soon as I did I discovered (not at all surprisingly) that this was not a cheap record (unless you\u2019re lucky enough to spend a lot of your vinyl digging time in and around Detroit).<\/p>\n

As is often the case, I looked and looked, was outbid a number of times, and then, like a bolt out of the blue, on a day when I had a big fat wad of cash burning a hole in my pocket, I opened up a record box of the dealers \u201cgood stuff\u201d at a records show, and BING, BANG, BOOM,<\/strong> as if placed there by the benevolent hand of the gods was a mint copy of this very record, along with a nice fat stack of other items from the old want list.<\/p>\n

I will not deceive you my friends, this record did not come cheap (though a lot of it\u2019s box-mates did, softening the blow somewhat) but I think once you pull down the ones and zeros and stuff it into your ears, you too \u2013 if infected by the vinyl disease \u2013 will want to get one of these for your very own.<\/p>\n

The info on Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers is \u2013 as they say \u2013 slim pickings, but the few scraps drifting in the breeze are indeed interesting.<\/p>\n

\u2018Searching for Soul Pts 1&2\u2019 (gotta include part two on account of the heavy git-tar) was released on Inkster, Michigan\u2019s (suburb of the Motor City, home to the Marvelettes<\/strong>) Mutt label circa 1970.<\/p>\n

Owned and operated by Nate Dorr<\/strong> (a bail bondsman by trade), the Mutt imprint released a variety of Detroit-area sounds, including soul by The Two Fellows, The Majjestees<\/strong> and Carol Jones<\/strong> (the two radically different versions of the sought after \u2018Don\u2019t Destroy Me\u2019), garage punk by the Ruins*<\/strong>, rock by the Dale Jones Trio<\/strong> and of course the unspeakably deep funk of Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers.<\/p>\n

\u2018Searching for Soul\u2019 is, aside from being a remarkably heavy, ass-kicking slab of funk, works on a number of levels.<\/p>\n

First and foremost, there\u2019s that break. Sweet Mother Macree that\u2019s some wild shit right there, from the slick, opening hi-hat, to the extremely \u2018hot\u2019 bass drum and snare, both of which can be heard ringing after the sticks hit.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s that wobble-legged guitar, which bears the mark of an axe-man who might have heard a few Meters <\/strong>45s in his time.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s all rendered (temporarily) meaningless when the bass falls in.<\/p>\n

The Mutt 45s that I\u2019ve heard all have a certain, how do they say<\/em>, raw sound, but it doesn\u2019t ever get any raw-er than the bass guitar on \u2018Searching for Soul\u2019 which when it first comes in sounds like every mike in the studio was pointed at the bass amp.<\/p>\n

It THUNDERS, so much so that raising the volume above a certain point would likely put your speakers at risk.
\nThis is, without any doubt, the kind of record, were you asked to define \u2018deep funk\u2019 for an uninitiated listener, that you could slap on the turntable, drop the needle and sit back and watch as their mind was good and truly boggled.<\/p>\n

You also get the extra added bonus of a dual sax attack, which kicks things up a notch about two thirds of the way through side one.<\/p>\n

When you flip the platter over, side two sees the band re-stating the break, ladling on a little bit of heavy, wah-wah guitar, and a tasty sax-o-mo-phone solo, including a very groovy moment when the guitar starts to feed back a little and the sax starts to mimic it and things get just a little bit psychedelic.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, at the time that Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers were rattling the walls of any number of Detroit area clubs, there was a duo recording for Motown\u2019s Rare Earth subsidiary by the name of Stoney and Meatloaf <\/strong>(yes, that Meat Loaf). When they went on the road they took Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers with them as their backing band.<\/p>\n

Small world, indeed.<\/p>\n

Solid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have a great weekend.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n


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NOTE: If this record sounds eerily familiar, it was sampled a few years back for the Beyonce cut \u2018Suga Mama\u2019.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

*Check out the detailed story of the Ruins at the fantastic Garage Hangover site <\/a>which includes an anecdote about Dorr saving the day by using his day job to get a truckload of impounded equipment released so a gig might continue.<\/strong><\/p>\n


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