{"id":1909,"date":"2011-10-02T13:58:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T18:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2012-02-22T12:37:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:37:55","slug":"fred-wesley-and-the-j-b-s-damn-right-i-am-somebody-pts-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=1909","title":{"rendered":"Fred Wesley and the J.B.s – Damn Right I Am Somebody Pts 1&2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An early incarnation of the mighty JBs
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Listen\/Download – The JBs – Damn Right I Am Somebody Pt1 <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del>
\n Listen\/Download – The JBs – Damn Right I Am Somebody Pt2 <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

Having just returned from a little end-of-summer\/beginning-of-fall sojourn to our nation\u2019s capital, I am exhaust-o-mified.<\/em><\/p>\n

I remember back in the day where I wouldn\u2019t think twice about packing 10 hours travel time into a long weekend. What better time to jam on some mix tapes and chill behind the wheel?<\/p>\n

In two decades I\u2019ve gone from that to becoming a mirror image of my (and anyone else\u2019s) father, fielding inquiries from the back seat, struggling to keep my eyes on the road, my hands on the wheel and my brain in one piece. It\u2019s a whole different proposition when you assume leadership of the family caravan.<\/p>\n

That said, a good time was had by all, with the sightseeing, and the museums and the wealth of groovy ethnic cuisine available in and around DC.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is a prime bit of mid-period (1974) J.B.s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know about you guys, but I have a tendency to pick up J.B.s 45s wherever I find them, which explains why I have doubles of several of them.<\/p>\n

I mean, why on earth, when given the opportunity to take home a solid serving of funky grooves by one of the tightest bands that ever was, would you refrain from doing so?<\/p>\n

This is not to say that I prefer the work of the J.B.s minus the vocalizations of the mighty man for whom they were named, but rather that sometimes an instrumental will hit the spot where a vocal might just get in the way (aside from the fact that Mr Brown<\/strong> is all over these records anyhoo).<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s selection, \u2018Damn Right I Am Somebody Pts 1&2\u2019 was the title track on the album of the same name, billed as Fred Wesley and the J.B.s<\/strong>, since every once in a while you have to give props to the man burning up the trombone.<\/p>\n

Not only is \u2018Damn Right\u2026\u2019 one of the tightest grooves ever laid down by this storied ensemble, but it carries in it just a taste of jazz, as well as one of the finest horn charts to grace a JBs record, as well as a tasty percussion breakdown in part 2.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve discussed the clockwork wonders of the James Brown<\/strong> style in this space before, but it bears mentioning yet again. Take yourself a minute and slap on the headphones and listen to the way the warp and weft of the JBs intersect without ever colliding. The lead guitar shoots around the bass, which itself winds around the horns and the rhythm guitar and the drums, providing a deceptively simple base for the soloists (mainly Fred<\/strong> and Maceo<\/strong>) to do their thing.<\/p>\n

It is indeed a wonder to behold.<\/p>\n

God bless the JBs and all who sailed with them.<\/p>\n

See you on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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An early incarnation of the mighty JBs Listen\/Download – The JBs – Damn Right I Am Somebody Pt1 Listen\/Download – The JBs – Damn Right I Am Somebody Pt2 Greetings all. Having just returned from a little end-of-summer\/beginning-of-fall sojourn to our nation\u2019s capital, I am exhaust-o-mified. I remember back in the day where I wouldn\u2019t […]<\/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":[11,17,14,77,12,18],"tags":[163,166],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-james-brown","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-uN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","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=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}