{"id":4636,"date":"2014-03-06T11:38:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2014-03-06T11:38:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:38:46","slug":"betty-davis-if-im-in-luck-i-might-get-picked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4636","title":{"rendered":"Betty Davis – If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Betty Davis – If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up <\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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

The end of the week is here, and so the time is near for your weekly dose of the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong>, coming to you via the airwaves of the interwebs this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio.<\/strong><\/a> If you can\u2019t be there at airtime, you can always keep up with the show by subscribing as a podcast in iTunes.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is something a little hard and funky from which to launch yourselves into the weekend.<\/p>\n

I suspect that many more people have heard of Betty Davis<\/strong> than have actually heard her (excellent) music.<\/p>\n

Davis, a singer, songwriter, model and muse to the likes of Jimi Hendrix<\/strong> and Miles Davis<\/strong> (to whom she was married) recorded three very cool, well-regarded (if not big selling) albums between 1973 and 1975 for the Just Sunshine and Island labels (as well as a fourth album that would remain in the can until 2009).<\/p>\n

Davis had spent the 60s moving between music (where she worked with Lou Courtney<\/strong> and the Chambers Brothers<\/strong>) and modeling, recording a couple of rare 45s in the process.<\/p>\n

She recorded her first, self-titled LP in 1973 with a cast of San Francisco-area heavies, including several members of Sly and the Family Stone<\/strong> (drummer Greg Errico<\/strong> produced the album), Santana, \u00a0Merl Saunders<\/strong> the Pointer Sisters<\/strong> and Sylvester.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s selection, the hard-hitting \u2018If I\u2019m In Luck I Just Might Get Picked Up\u2019 was Davis\u2019s first charting single (R&B #66 in the summer of 1973) and is typical of her hard-edged, sexually frank vibe.<\/p>\n

What is especially groovy is that the song rocks as much as it funks (if you will<\/em>) thanks not only to the instrumental end of things but also to Miss Betty\u2019s vocals.<\/p>\n

Davis was a genre-bender, which helped to make her music intriguing, but also made it hard for the listening public to get with the program. This is not to say that other artists mixing and matching rock and soul weren’t embraced \u2013 the 70s were after all the decade of P-Funk<\/strong> \u2013 but rather that there was something about Davis\u2019s particular recipe that didn’t gel with a wider audience.<\/p>\n

Too bad for them, since the records she made are rightly regarded as classics today.<\/p>\n

All of her 1970s recordings have been reissued by Light In the Attic<\/strong> <\/a>and can be picked up in hard copy or digitally.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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PS Head over to Iron Leg too.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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