{"id":6692,"date":"2016-10-23T10:17:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T15:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2016-10-23T10:17:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T15:17:59","slug":"joe-hicks-home-sweet-home-pt2-bw-im-goin-home-pt1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6692","title":{"rendered":"Joe Hicks – Home Sweet Home Pt2 b\/w I’m Goin’ Home Pt1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Joe Hicks – Home Sweet Home Part 2 MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – Joe Hicks – I’m Coming Home Part 1 MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The new week is here and I come to you today with an old favorite of mine, that has been marinating in the \u2018to-be-blogged\u201d on deck circle for a long time.<\/p>\n

Naturally, there\u2019s no good reason for that, other than every now and then I circle a record warily, waiting for just the right moment (Tenacious D<\/strong> referred to it as \u2018inspirado\u2019)<\/strong>, when the need to whip it on you and the right time to tell the story intersected perfectly.<\/p>\n

Or, I might just have waited too long and it got too far back in the queue.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s selection is kind of a “combination of the two”, which was also the name of a song by Big Brother and the Holding Company<\/strong>, who were from San Francisco, which is where this record was made, so kismet being a force that I am (usually) unwilling to go against, I finally got my shit together and added \u2018Home Sweet Home Pt2\u2019 by Joe Hicks<\/strong> to the line up.<\/p>\n

It has been so long, in fact, since I first picked up the 45 that I have no solid recollection as to where I heard it first.<\/p>\n

The time that it\u2019s been recorded and in my crates suggests to me that I either heard it or heard about it from someone at the Asbury Park 45 Sessions<\/strong>, but I can\u2019t say for sure.<\/p>\n

When I mentioned kismet above, there really was something in the Jungian<\/strong>, collective unconscious\/web of life that was nudging me toward this point.<\/p>\n

Last summer, whilst the fam and I were grabbing a nosh in our local burrito joint, staffed largely by alternative\/tattoo\/music types, where they always have interesting music on the PA, I was about to shovel some spicy chicken mole into my maw when my ears perked up.<\/p>\n

Though I was almost certain that I was listening to Jimi Hendrix\/Band of Gypsys<\/strong>, I was also pretty sure that they were playing a medley of Sly Stone<\/strong>-related tunes, including the famous riff from \u2018Sing a Simple Song\u2019 and, very strangely, a piece of Joe Hicks \u2018Home Sweet Home\u2019, a tune written and produced by Sly, but light years more obscure than \u2018Sing..\u201d<\/p>\n

Naturally, as soon as I got home I kept on Googlin\u2019 (as opposed to chooglin<\/em>\u2019, vis a vis San Francisco) and what do I discover but A) That WAS the Band of Gypsys, with Buddy Miles<\/strong> on vocals and B) That WAS \u2018Home Sweet Home\u2019.<\/p>\n

As is turns out, Jimi and band were paying tribute to Sly by working two of his tunes into a medley of sorts with \u2018We Gotta Live Together\u2019, credited the whole shebang to Buddy Miles (in a way that would never pass muster today) and that was that.<\/p>\n

Joe Hicks was a San Fran Bay Area homeboy of Sly\u2019s who had done some earlier recording with Pat Vegas<\/strong> (of \u2026and Lolly\/Redbone<\/strong> fame) and then a few singles with Sly, including a massive version of \u2018Life and Death in G and A\u2019, and then went on to record an LP in 1973 for the Enterprise subsidiary of Stax.<\/p>\n

Hicks was also a songwriter, working with Bobby Womack<\/strong> and Delaney Bramlett<\/strong>, and having his tunes recorded by Delaney & Bonnie<\/strong> and Aretha Franklin.
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\nOddly enough, though listed as \u2018Home Sweet Home Pt2\u2019 on the label, the song is actually a continuation of \u2018I\u2019m Goin\u2019 Home Pt1\u2019 aka the other side of the record (\u2018Home Sweet Home\u2019 actually starts at the end of the other side).<\/p>\n

\u2018Home Sweet Home\u2019 is the funkier side of the record, and as soon as the horns drop in there is no disputing that this is a Sly Stone joint.<\/p>\n

The tune has the kind of funky punch of \u2018Thank You Fallettinme Be Mice Elf Agin\u2019 by the Family Stone<\/strong>, and Hicks has a powerful, raspy voice that matches the funk power of the instrumental backing.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not much out there about Hicks. The Enterprise album seems to be the last time he recorded (there\u2019s another side listed in Discogs but I think it was attributed in error) and in a later interview Sly mentions that he (Hicks) had eventually gotten strung out on, and killed by drugs.<\/p>\n

As it is, he remains one of the more interesting Sly-related artists, with a short but solid discography that hints at the possibility of bigger things that were never delivered.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tune, and I\u2019ll be back on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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