{"id":38,"date":"2010-01-24T02:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=38"},"modified":"2010-01-25T10:48:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:48:13","slug":"lucky-peterson-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Peterson – Our Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally Posted 12\/3\/09<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download -Lucky Peterson – Our Future <\/em><\/span>
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Greetings all.<\/strong>
\nFriday is here, and surprisingly enough, so am I.<\/em>
\nThis has been a rough week, with all kinds of appointments, plumbing challenges and a day where I was convinced that I was on the verge of being felled by the flu (it turns out I was only exhausted).
\nThe tune I bring you today is perhaps the coolest cut I have yet to come across by the funkiest five year old ever* (at least he was five when it was recorded), Lucky Peterson.<\/strong>
\nBack in the day, when I was chasing Hammond records like a greyhound chases rabbits, I encountered something that at the time looked like the holy grail of organ related wax, an album by a five year old kid, named (surprise) Lucky Peterson. It was the kind of record that would have grabbed without having heard a note, but fate stepped in and I was unable (and have still been unable) to find a copy of the full album.
\nHowever (and this probably worked out for the best) I was able to bag a couple of his 45s, which to be perfectly honest were not Hammond burners, but were in fact clearly the work of a five year old child (with the help of grown up musicians, natch..<\/em>.). A talented five year old, but a child nonetheless. Some of those songs, in particular \u2018Good Old Candy\u2019 (included in a recent edition of Funky16Corners Radio) have a certain kiddie funk vibe that made them rough but charming.
\nAnyway, I recently came across yet another Lucky Peterson 45, which \u2013 due to the fact that it was cheap, and included a song called \u2018Funky Alphabet\u2019 \u2013 I picked up post haste. \u2018Funky Alphabet\u2019 turned out to be (as so many songs labeled \u2018funky\u2019 are) not funky at all.
\nHowever, the A-side of that 45 featured what has to be the best thing little Lucky ever did, an inspired bit of funk called \u2018Our Future\u2019, which includes organ, wah-wah guitar and the singer\u2019s soulful (and occasionally shrill) screams. It aspires to a Motown vibe, with a cool string section, and although a lot of what Lucky sings is indecipherable, it\u2019s clear that his heart is in the right place.
\nInterestingly enough, Peterson was a discovery of blues giant Willie Dixon\u2019s<\/strong> (Dixon gets songwriting credit on some of his singles) and recorded his LP for the Today label in 1969. His song \u20181-2-3-4\u2019 a reworking of James Brown\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Please Please Please\u2019 was an R&B hit in 1970 and got Peterson a fair amount of national TV exposure.
\nUnlike so many child prodigies, Peterson stayed with music, eventually taking up guitar and going on to play with Little Milton<\/strong> before starting his own career on the blues scene which continues today.
\nI hope you dig the tune, and I\u2019ll be back on Monday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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Originally Posted 12\/3\/09 Lucky Peterson Listen\/Download -Lucky Peterson – Our Future Greetings all. Friday is here, and surprisingly enough, so am I. This has been a rough week, with all kinds of appointments, plumbing challenges and a day where I was convinced that I was on the verge of being felled by the flu (it […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}