{"id":6630,"date":"2016-09-15T11:56:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2016-09-15T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:01:44","slug":"floyd-morris-a-mellow-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6630","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Morris – A Mellow Mood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Floyd Morris – A Mellow Mood MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The end of the week is here, and so is the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong>, which drops each and every Friday with the finest in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove all on original vinyl. You can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, check it out on Mixcloud or grab yourself an MP3 right here at the blog.<\/p>\n

We close out the week with a very groovy bit of Chitown soul butting right up against funk.<\/p>\n

As a certified Hammond nut, I have been picking up Floyd Morris<\/strong>\u00a0records for years.<\/p>\n

He was a Chicago-based piano and organ player, who came up playing in a group with Johnny Pate<\/strong>, and went on to play keyboards on a grip of classic-era soul and funk records in the Windy City.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, it\u2019s supposedly Morris who plays the piano solo on \u2018Soulful Strut\u2019 (credited to Young\/Holt<\/strong>, but, despite their incredible catalog, they do not play on their signature hit).<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s selection, \u2018A Mellow Mood\u2019 was released on Bill Sheppard\u2019s<\/strong> BBS label in 1968 and is one of the coolest instrumental 45s to come out of Chicago (and that\u2019s saying a LOT).<\/p>\n

Morris is featured on piano, backed by an absolutely thumping bass and drums (which sound like they were lifted from Dorothy Ashby\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Soul Vibrations\u2019) and a great, chanking rhythm guitar (which gets louder in the mix closer to the end of the record), with Morris soloing over the proceedings. Plus, it was co-written by Andre Williams!<\/p>\n

While the record isn\u2019t quite out-and-out funk, it is certainly funky, and with a raw enough vibe that you could drop it into a funk 45 set and no one would blink.<\/p>\n

It is groovy, relatively inexpensive, and the kind of 45 you want to spin repeatedly.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, 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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