{"id":3097,"date":"2012-09-25T16:48:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T21:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2012-10-20T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T15:59:43","slug":"curtis-knight-love-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3097","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Knight – Love-In"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Curtis Knight – Love-In<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

The tune I bring you today is something groovy from the slightly later, post-Jimi<\/strong> period of Curtis Knight\u2019s<\/strong> career.<\/p>\n

I was giving some thought to how it must have sucked for Knight to be known only via his intersection with Hendrix<\/strong>, but then I thought about how much energy he expended in attempting to capitalize on that connection, and forgot all about it.<\/p>\n

Knight was working in NYC with his band the Squires<\/strong> when Hendrix, who had already taken part in what in retrospect seems like a marathon effort to make cameos in the careers of as many other performers as he could before breaking on his own.<\/p>\n

As a live performer, Jimi worked stages alongside Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, the Isley Brothers, Carl Holmes and the Commanders,<\/strong> and in the studio with Lonnie Youngblood, Billy LaMont, Don Covay, King Curtis<\/strong> and many others.<\/p>\n

He hooked up with Knight and the Squires when he finally landed in New York City in 1965. He recorded sessions with Knight (some legit, some jams) during \u201965 and \u201966, until he formed his own band, and was eventually spirited off to the UK by Chas Chandler.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Knight and his facilitators spent a lot of time repackaging pretty much anything he recorded with Hendrix (often deceptively), making a great deal of hay (and not a little money).<\/p>\n

This is not to say that Knight was without talent himself. He had played and recorded in a variety of R&B, rock and soul settings through the 50s and 60s.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today hails from a 1969, UK-only (?!?) 45 he recorded for RCA.<\/p>\n

The record is an interesting microcosm of Knight as Hendrix mentor-turned-acolyte (parasite?), with a slightly psyched-out number \u2018Fancy Meeting You Here\u2019, complete with heavy guitar and echo appearing on the flipside.<\/p>\n

The side of the disc we concern ourselves with today is the funky \u2018Love In\u2019.<\/p>\n

The arrangement and production is very cool, with lots of wah-wah guitar, some oddly echoed horns, sassy female backing vocals and a great performance by Knight (I really dig the bridge too).<\/p>\n

I\u2019d love to know the story behind Knight getting a UK only record deal, though I have seen a few later LPs that seem to have only been released in Europe.<\/p>\n

As it is, the vast majority of the records released with Curtis Knight\u2019s name on them, had Jimi Hendrix\u2019s right next to (or on top of, or under) it.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the cut, and I\u2019ll see you on Friday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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