{"id":7008,"date":"2017-03-09T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7008"},"modified":"2017-03-12T09:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T14:52:58","slug":"f16c-hello-l-a-bye-bye-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7008","title":{"rendered":"F16C – Hello L.A. Bye Bye Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Funky16Corners: Hello L.A. Bye Bye Birmingham
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\nBobbie Gentry \u2013 Okalona River Bottom Band (Capitol)
\nBilly Lee Riley \u2013 Mississippi Delta (Mojo)
\nArtie Christopher \u2013 Stoned Soul (Atlantic)
\nCher \u2013 I Walk On Gilded Splinters (Atco)
\nBuzz Clifford \u2013 Hawg Frog (Dot)
\nJoe South \u2013 Motherless Children (Capitol)
\nKin Vassy \u2013 Hello LA Bye Bye Birmingham (UNI)
\nLonnie Mack \u2013 Too Much Trouble (Elektra)
\nNat Stuckey \u2013 Clean Up Your Own Backyard (RCA)
\nRoy Head \u2013 Don\u2019t Want To Make It Too Funky (In the Beginning) (ABC\/Dunhill)
\nArea Code 615 \u2013 Stone Fox Chase (Polydor)
\nJohn Randolph Marr \u2013 Sarah (WB)
\nSkip Easterling \u2013 Hoochie Coochie Man (Instant)
\nTony Joe White \u2013 Whompt Out On You (Monument)
\nKelly Gordon \u2013 If That Don\u2019t Get It It Ain\u2019t There (Capitol)
\nCharlie McCoy \u2013 Minor Miner (Monument)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Funky16Corners – F16C: Hello L.A. Bye Bye Birmingham MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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The end of the week is here and I will take this opportunity to remind you that the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong> hits the airwaves of the interwebs each and every Friday with the best in soul, funk, 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 Stitcher and TuneIn apps, check it out on Mixcloud, or grab yourself an MP3 right here at Funky16Corners.com<\/p>\n

Also, my (roughly) monthly jawn at WFMU’s Rock’n’Soul Ichiban stream<\/strong><\/a> – Testify!<\/strong> – \u00a0commences this very Sunday morning, March 12th at 11AM, and if you dig the sounds you hear both here and over at Iron Leg<\/strong>, it would behoove you to tune in your internet radiola (just got to the WFMU page and click on the Ichiban Stream) and dig it.<\/p>\n

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That all said, what you see before you is the result of one of a number of ongoing obsessions (and musical workaholism) that finally reached a tipping point this past week when I got my hands on a record I’d been wanting for a long time (and bookends the original Honky Style<\/strong><\/a> mix which is ten years old this year) .<\/p>\n

That record – Buzz Clifford’s<\/strong> ‘Hawg Frog’ – is in many ways the ne plus ultra of swamp funk sides.<\/p>\n

The mix gets its title from a song that’s kind of a cornerstone of the sound, written by Mac Davis and Delaney Bramlett and recorded by no less than three artists in the mix (though I only included my fave, by Kin Vassy<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Swamp funk, country funk, white Southern soul, call it what you want – and really, it deserves a bunch of different names because as a style it’s kind of diffuse, with a bunch of things, funk, rock, soul, country, blues, psychedelia and R&B all intersecting in a variety of ways – the only real common denominator (at least in this mix) being the caucasianosity<\/em> of the perpetrators.<\/p>\n

You get some of the bigger names associated with the stylistic miasma, like Tony Joe White, Joe South<\/strong> and Bobbie Gentry<\/strong>, some of the lesser known folks, like Kin Vassy, Billy Lee Riley\u00a0<\/strong>and John Randolph Marr<\/strong>, background characters like Kelly Gordon<\/strong>, Nashville heads like Charlie McCoy, Area Code 615<\/strong> and Nat Stuckey<\/strong> and even a couple of unexpected names like Cher, Lonnie Mack<\/strong> and Buzz Clifford.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s sometimes funky (with a couple of very tasty drum breaks), usually twangy, often soulful, and with the soul of a mud-caked cottonmouth snake hidden out in the wheel well of bus taking Highway 55 from Memphis to New Orleans.<\/p>\n

So pull down the ones and zeroes, and dig it.<\/p>\n

I’ll see you all on Monday.<\/p>\n

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

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

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Also, the brand new Funky16Corners ‘Keep Calm and Stay Funky’ stickers have arrived!<\/strong> The stickers are 4″ x 3″ and printed on high quality, glossy stock.<\/strong> They are $2.00 each, with free shipping in the US ($2.00 per order shipping outside of the US).<\/strong> Click here to go to the ordering page.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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

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