{"id":1293,"date":"2011-02-13T13:08:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T18:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2015-02-04T21:40:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T02:40:50","slug":"phil-upchurch-i-dont-know-bacn-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Phil Upchurch – I Don’t Know \/ Bacn’ Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Phil Upchurch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Phil Upchurch – I Don’t Know <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – Phil Upchurch – Bacn’ Chips <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

I hope the dawn of a new week finds you all well and in a soulful groove.<\/p>\n

I spent the better part of the weekend configuring a new workstation after the old (original) Funky16Corners laptop, that I had passed on to the kids, went belly up. Fortunately the transition from Vista to Windows 7 was a lot easier (and much less expensive) that that from XP to Vista, where a lot of the software I use for blogging and podcasts was suddenly rendered obsolete.<\/p>\n

As we speak, I have completed the Monday posts for Funky16Corners and Iron Leg<\/strong><\/a>, and started work on next week’s Funky16Corners Radio Show, so it appears that we’re up to speed.<\/p>\n

I should let you know that next Monday (2\/21) I will be returning to Spindletop @ Botanica <\/strong>in NYC. It\u2019s a very cool bar, and I assure you I\u2019ll be bringing some very groovy records with me, so if you\u2019re in the neighborhood, and feel like a cocktail and some soul might hit the spot, drop by.<\/p>\n

The tunes I bring you today hail from the discography of one of the truly great and innovative labels of the 60s, Cadet.<\/p>\n

They also come to you courtesy of the plectrum of one of the label\u2019s greatest session musicians, Mr. Phil Upchurch.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If his name is familiar, it may be because he had a genuine hit in 1961, with the Phil Upchurch Combo<\/strong> and \u2018You Can\u2019t Sit Down\u2019.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more likely you\u2019ve seen his name on the backs of (and the fronts of some) countless albums, where he contributed his talents on the guitar.<\/p>\n

Upchurch was born in Chicago, and it was to that city he returned after his stint in the Army.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a devotee of the Cadet sound, you\u2019ve heard Upchurch\u2019s playing on productions by both Richard Evans<\/strong> and Charles Stepney <\/strong>(who produced\/arranged this session), including albums by the Soulful Strings, Ramsey Lewis, Odell Brown, the Rotary Connection, Jack McDuff<\/strong> and even Woody Herman\u2019s <\/strong>sessions for the label.<\/p>\n

Upchurch also had the opportunity to record a few albums of his own for Cadet, including \u2018Upchurch\u2019 in 1969, and the album that includes today\u2019s selections \u2018The Way I Feel\u2019 in 1970.<\/p>\n

The two tracks I bring you today give you a flavor not only for Upchurch\u2019s prodigious skill as a guitarist, but also for the way the Cadet sound synthesized the various and sundry musical threads coursing through the atmosphere at the time.<\/p>\n

Both \u2018Bac\u2019n Chips\u2019 and \u2018I Don\u2019t Know\u2019 are both soulful, occasionally funky, with touches of rock (I hear bits and pieces of Hendrix<\/strong>) as well as the smooth, stylish, even artsy feel of Stepney\u2019s best work.<\/p>\n

Like Richard Evans, Stepney was nothing less than a visionary, instilling the records he worked on with imagination and style.<\/p>\n

Upchurch would go on to record sought out sessions for Blue Thumb, as well as decades of making the records of other artists better than they might have been.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tunes, and I\u2019ll be back on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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PS Head over to Iron Leg for some prime UK psyche\/prog.<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Phil Upchurch Listen\/Download – Phil Upchurch – I Don’t Know Listen\/Download – Phil Upchurch – Bacn’ Chips Greetings all. I hope the dawn of a new week finds you all well and in a soulful groove. I spent the better part of the weekend configuring a new workstation after the old (original) Funky16Corners laptop, that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,14,66,49,30,12,13],"tags":[171,163,166,164,165],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk","category-funky16corners","category-instrumental","category-jazz-funk","category-lp-tracks","category-soul","category-soul-jazz","tag-chicago-soul","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul","tag-soul-jazz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-kR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5506,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/5506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}