{"id":6546,"date":"2016-07-31T11:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T16:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6546"},"modified":"2016-07-31T11:55:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T16:55:43","slug":"chuck-edwards-bullfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6546","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Edwards – Bullfight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Chuck Edwards – Bullfight MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Today we return to the catalog of one of my favorite soul artists, one who was covered at length back in the webzine days, the mighty Chuck Edwards.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Edwards, who was a Pittsburgh, PA institution until he relocated his family and his career to California, is best known for the incredible \u2018Downtown Soulville\u2019, one of the truly great records of the classic era.<\/p>\n

Edwards had a long discography stretching back into the 1950s on labels like Apollo, Duke, Rene (his own imprint), Roulette, Punch and Kapp.<\/p>\n

Though he never had any significant R&B or Pop chart success, today\u2019s selection was an important regional hit in and around Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bullfight\u2019, released in 1966, first on Rene, and the picked up for national distribution by Roulette made it into the Top 20 on local radio.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to take a minute to talk about the unique local music scene in Pittsburgh in the 50s, 60s and 70s.<\/p>\n

Spearheaded by local DJs like Mad Mike<\/strong> and Porky Chedwick<\/strong>, tons of otherwise obscure R&B, soul, garage or rock records became regional classics in Western PA while making almost no noise anywhere else. These have been collected over the years on a number of locally released compilations, and had an influence on local bands, who ended up covering some of these songs (as in Pittsburgh\u2019s Swamp Rats<\/strong> covering tunes by Seattle\u2019s Sonics<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Some of these compilations have been in print on and off for almost 50 years, and still change hands today.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bullfight\u2019, which features Edwards guitar prominently (as well as the repeated cry of \u2018Hey Dino!\u2019 which also appears in the 1969 sequel \u2018Bullfight #2\u2019) and chugs along at a brisk pace, yet only clocks in at an extremely brief 1:49!<\/p>\n

Even at this late date, Edwards classic recordings have yet to be compiled, and his remains fairly obscure outside of collector circles (and Pittsburgh\u2026).<\/p>\n

Hopefully someone will get on the ball, because there\u2019s a lot of very cool stuff in his catalog.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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