{"id":2184,"date":"2012-01-26T14:56:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2012-02-21T14:28:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:28:14","slug":"magic-sam-ill-pay-you-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2184","title":{"rendered":"Magic Sam – I’ll Pay You Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download -Magic Sam – I’ll Pay You Back <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

Welcome to the end of yet another week at the Les Corners Seize Funkee<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It behooves me to remind you that were you to tune into Viva Radio<\/strong><\/a> Friday night at 9PM you would encounter (once again) the Funky16Corners Radio Show,<\/strong> where yours truly whips the funk, soul, jazz and rare groove on the masses via the airwaves of the interwebs. If this is an appointment you are unable to make at the time of broadcast, you can always come by here over the weekend and pick yourselves up an MP3 of same.<\/p>\n

This week’s show is especially interesting if you dig the “now” sounds of soul and funk with new stuff from Japan, the good ole US of A, and Australia.<\/p>\n

That all said, the tune I bring you today is something out of the blues guys go funky<\/em> bag.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s particularly interesting is that the blues guy in question is the mighty Magic Sam<\/strong> and the funky tune in question is yet another iteration of the thousand-petaled lotus known as \u2018It\u2019s Your Thing\u2019.<\/p>\n

Magic Sam Maghett<\/strong> was a generation younger than many of the bluesmen that made the trek from Mississippi to Chicago, and his approach to the blues guitar was a new(er) one.<\/p>\n

One need only listen to his recordings for labels like Cobra and Delmark to realize that he was on to something new.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, he was felled by a heart attack in 1969 (not long after he recorded this 45) and never really got to build the kind of discography that might have elevated him into a position of prominence.<\/p>\n

The tune in question, \u2018I\u2019ll Pay You Back\u2019 is something I knew only as an instrumental (\u2018Sams Funck\u2019) for years until I scored a copy of the 45 and had the opportunity to flip it over.<\/p>\n

When I did I was pleasantly surprised not only because of its basic coolness, but also because I finally realized that \u2018I\u2019ll Pay You Back\u2019 was in fact a vehicle rebuilt on the Isley Brothers<\/strong>\u2019 \u2018It\u2019s Your Thing\u2019 frame.<\/p>\n

Along with Archie Bell and the Drells<\/strong> \u2018Tighten Up\u2019, \u2018It\u2019s Your Thing\u2019 was one of the most imitated and borrowed from songs of the late 60s. It was on the R&B charts for 14 weeks in the Spring of 1969 (4 weeks at Number One).<\/p>\n

Magic Sam reprises the song\u2019s title and rhythmic structure, but lays his own guitar style on top of things, and the lo-fi production by Bobby Rush<\/strong> (a master of the soulful blues himself, who is also credited with the writing the song) gives the whole affair a rougher edge, less funky than muddy.<\/p>\n

We can only wonder how far Magic Sam might have gone had he not met such a premature end.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune, and I\u2019ll I\u2019ll see you all on Monday.<\/p>\n

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