{"id":1590,"date":"2011-05-31T13:48:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T18:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2012-02-22T13:33:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:33:51","slug":"barbara-lynn-club-a-go-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Lynn – Club A Go Go"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miss Barbara Lynn<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Barbara Lynn – Club A Go Go <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

I hope everyone had themselves a very groovy holiday weekend.<\/p>\n

The weather, in a wholly unexpected turn of events, has been spectacular. I say unexpected, since the preceding weeks were completely saturated in rainfall, to a depressing extent.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for all, the sun finally appeared, the temperature has risen and summer is at last upon us.<\/p>\n

Here in the Funky16Corners Blogcasting Nerve Center and Record Vault<\/strong>, preparations continue apace for this year\u2019s Pledge Drive, with mixes arriving from some of my (and your) favorite selectors, and a couple of good ones percolating on my own turntables. We’ve got a really nice stylistic range in this year’s mixes. I think you\u2019ll dig the results, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is one of my favorite cuts by one of the great names in Texas soul, and someone I consider to be an underrated (or at least under-celebrated) performer, Miss Barbara Lynn.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barbara Lynn (born Barbara Lynn Ozen<\/strong> in Beaumont, TX in 1942) is that rarest of birds (as least as far as 60s soul is concerned) a woman with a guitar.<\/p>\n

With a career that spans 50 years (she had her first hit, \u2018You\u2019ll Lose a Good Thing\u2019 in 1962), Lynn laid down some spectacularly good soul records for labels like Jamie, Tribe, Atlantic and Jetstream.<\/p>\n

Lynn, in addition to the seeming novelty of her guitar, has a wonderful, expressive voice, as fitting on ballads like \u2018You\u2019ll Lose a Good Thing\u2019 and powerful upbeat numbers like the sought after (and much covered) dance floor fave,\u00a0 \u2018I\u2019m a Good Woman\u2019.<\/p>\n

Following her stretch with Jamie records, Lynn recorded four singles for Huey P Meaux\u2019s<\/strong> Tribe label in 1966 and 1967, all of them excellent.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s selection \u2018Club A Go Go\u2019 was her last 45 for Tribe in 1967.<\/p>\n

Paired with the Joe Tex<\/strong> tune \u2018Watch the One (That Brings the Bad News)\u2019, \u2018Club a Go Go\u2019 is a swinging \u2018go out and hit the dance floor<\/em>\u2019 number, with a call to \u2018Meet me on down to Shorty\u2019s club!\u2019<\/em>. The tune features some blazing horns, great tandem bass and piano, and a guitar solo that sounds like it was lifted from any half-dozen New Orleans 45s from the same period.<\/p>\n

As Miss Lynn says repeatedly, \u2018You got to have soul\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

Barbara Lynn would move to Atlantic (1967-1973) where she would record classics like \u2018You\u2019re Losing Me\u2019*<\/a> and eventually to Jetstream, where she would record the excellent (and rare, and expensive<\/em>) \u2018Movin\u2019 On a Groove\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n

She left music for a while to raise her family, but eventually came out of retirement, and is back playing and recording today.<\/p>\n

Though it would appear that Barbara Lynn\u2019s Atlantic recordings are out of print on CD, there are a number of releases of her Jamie material<\/a>, and a great comp pairing her and Jean Knight and the recordings they both made for the Tribe and Jetstream labels.<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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

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* A song that bears an uncanny resemblance to Al Kent\u2019s Detroit Northern classic \u2018You\u2019ve Got To Pay the Price\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n


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