{"id":6061,"date":"2015-12-03T12:55:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T17:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2015-12-03T12:55:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T17:55:52","slug":"duke-and-the-drivers-check-your-bucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6061","title":{"rendered":"Duke and the Drivers – Check Your Bucket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Duke and the Drivers – Check Your Bucket MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The end of the week is here, so I will suggest again that you point your interwebs connection toward your favored podcast source (iTunes, etc), or your mobile device at the TuneIn app, to SoulGuyRadio.com<\/a><\/strong> or even (dare I say it??) right here at Funky16Corners to get your weekly does of the Funky16Corners Radio Show.<\/strong> I whip a new episode on you each and every Friday, filled with the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove, all on original vinyl.<\/p>\n

We close out the week with something unusual.<\/p>\n

Back in the day, when I was scouring the record bins of the universe in search of anything and everything Eddie Bo<\/strong>-related, someone (I forget who, but thanks\u2026) pointed me in the direction of a 1976 LP by a Boston group called Duke and the Drivers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duke and the Drivers were an R&B-based bar and club band out of Boston (not unlike their compadres the J. Geils Band<\/strong>) who recorded two albums and a couple of singles for ABC records in the mid 70s.<\/p>\n

How they got their hands on Eddie Bo\u2019s \u2018Check Your Bucket\u2019 (released in 1970 and an obscurity pretty much everywhere outside of the New Orleans city limits) I do not know. That said, they do a nice, mellow version of the song, and it\u2019s easy to imagine this being a highlight of their live set. The song is apparently a signature number of theirs, and they re-recorded it on a 2003 live album.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the track, 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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Also, make sure that you check out the links below to the Be The Match Foundation and POAC (click on the logos for more info).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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