{"id":7416,"date":"2018-05-27T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2018-05-27T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:53:29","slug":"fred-wesley-still-on-the-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7416","title":{"rendered":"Fred Wesley – Still On the Loose"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Fred Wesley – Still On the Loose MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

The 45 you see before you today was a very pleasant surprise when I picked it up some years ago.<\/p>\n

Fred Wesley<\/strong> was of course familiar to me (and should be to you) as the trombonist\/bandleader with the JBs<\/strong> as well as the Funkadelic<\/strong>-adjacent Horny Horns<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Still On the Loose\u2019, released in 1980, was from the period after Fred\u2019s George Clinton<\/strong> years, when Wesley was attempting to establish himself as a bandleader under his own name.<\/p>\n

He recorded the \u2018House Party\u2019 album for Curtom, which was at the time being distributed by RSO Records.<\/p>\n

\u2018Still On the Loose\u2019 is a mellow, yet still funky, era-specific sound with echoes of the P-Funk, with traces of disco on the edges.<\/p>\n

Fred not only plays much \u2018bone (apologies to JB) but also takes lead vocal duties (as well as producing).<\/p>\n

The result is a dance-floor friendly number with a sing along chorus.<\/p>\n

The \u2018House Party\u2019 album made it into the R&B Top 40, but according to Wesley\u2019s autobiography \u2018Hit Me Fred\u2019 RSO dropped Curtom from distribution as the record was gaining steam and killed its momentum.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a groovy one, and I hope you dig it.<\/p>\n

See you all next week.<\/p>\n

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