{"id":2717,"date":"2012-05-10T10:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2012-06-01T14:13:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T19:13:26","slug":"little-milton-just-a-little-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2717","title":{"rendered":"Little Milton – Just a Little Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLittle Milton means it<\/em> ladies!<\/strong> <\/strong>
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Listen\/Download Little Milton – Just a Little Bit <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

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

I hope the end of the week finds you all well.<\/p>\n

I should remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> takes to the airwaves of the interwebs this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio.<\/a><\/strong> If you can’t make it at airtime you can always come by the blog and grab yourself a downloadable MP3 of the show (and more than 100 archived episodes) over the weekend.<\/p>\n

If you travel through the highways and byways of the Funky16Corners then you will already know that I am often preoccupied with the species known as the soulful bluesman.<\/p>\n

During the classic era these giant roamed the earth, guitars (and or harmonicas) in hand dominating any ecosystem they happened to stomp in.<\/p>\n

You had your Syl Johnson, Junior Wells, Alberts King and Collins<\/strong>, and, perhaps the souliest of them all, Little Milton.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a long and fruitful career he laid down some of the finest example of the sub-genre, especially groovers like ‘Grits Ain’t Groceries’ (his reworking of Little Willie John’s<\/strong> ‘All Around the World’) and ‘More and More’ (covered ably by Blood Sweat and Tears).<\/strong><\/p>\n

I grab Little Milton 45s wherever I find them because his work was consistently and reliably good.<\/p>\n

It was only in the last year that I finally encountered one of his LPs in the field. It was a ‘Greatest Hits’ but it included several tracks I didn’t have yet so I grabbed it and took it home.<\/p>\n

Among the new (to me) cuts was Milton’s outstanding coverof Rosco Gordon’s<\/strong> 1959 classic ‘Just a Little Bit’.<\/p>\n

I already had the 1965 cover by Roy Head<\/strong> (done in the style of his previous hit ‘Treat Her Right’) but despite the fact that it was a Top 20 R&B hit in 1969 I had never heard Little Milton’s version of the song.<\/p>\n

Milton takes the song at a somewhat slower, ever so slightly funky tempo, adding in plenty of organ and of course his own sweet voice.<\/p>\n

It is not in any way earth-shattering – the song has after all been covered dozens of times – but it is a groovy tune and any Little Milton is quality<\/em> Little Milton, and so I bring it to you.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you when I see you.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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Little Milton means it ladies! Listen\/Download Little Milton – Just a Little Bit Greetings all. I hope the end of the week finds you all well. I should remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show takes to the airwaves of the interwebs this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you can’t […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[89,43,58,14,30,12],"tags":[171,166,164],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues","category-chicago-soul","category-cover-songs","category-funky16corners","category-lp-tracks","category-soul","tag-chicago-soul","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-HP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","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=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}