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By Larry, May 20, 2018 10:23 am

Papa John Creach

Listen/Download – Papa John Creach and the Midnight Sun – Joyce (Tom Moulton Mix) MP3

Greetings all.

Today’s selection is one of the all-time great weird intersections of artist and record.

I picked this 45 up about six years ago, mainly on the strength of the Tom Moulton credit on the label.

I knew of Papa John Creach, but solely as the fiddle player with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. I never expected that he had anything like this in him.

When I got the record home and slipped it under the needle I was shocked to discover five and a half minutes of stylish, fast moving disco!

John Henry Creach was born in 1917 (?!?) and spend his musically formative years learning to become something of a musical chameleon, playing everything from pop and jazz, to ethnic music, mainly adjusting so that he could continue to make a living.

He crossed paths with Joey Covington in the late 60s, which led to his being asked (simultaneously) to join the Jefferson Airplane and its offshoot Hot Tuna. He remained with the Airplane through its metamorphosis into the Jefferson Starship, leaving the band right after the ‘Red Octopus’ LP.

Creach went on to form his own band, Midnight Sun, with which he would record his next few albums.

‘Joyce’ first appeared on hs 1975 LP ‘I’m the Fiddle Man’, and while it can almost certainly be ascribed to bandwagon jumping, it’s a fantastic example of how the right musician latching on to the right trend can result in great music.

The original album version of ‘Joyce’ clocks in at just under five minutes. I don’t know how it made its way into Tom Moulton’s hands, but it’s a good thing it did.

Moulton, one of dance music’s greatest movers, as one of the first remixers and a pioneers of the 12” disco single, was still in the early days of his career, having only done the epic remix of BT Express’s ‘Do It’ the year before.

‘Joyce’ features hard charging bass, washes of strings and horns, tangy wah-wah guitar, and of course Papa John’s fiddle soloing.

Interesting, the 12” single of ‘Joyce’ can go for more than $50, but the mix on the much cheaper and easier to find Buddah 45 is exactly the same.

Creach eventually rejoined one of the later versions of Jefferson Starship, touring with the band until his death in 1994.

I hope you dig the track, and I’ll see you all next week.

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Larry

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By Larry, May 13, 2018 10:35 am

Funky16Corners Set List – Botanica 12/04/13

Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes – Get Out (and Let Me Cry) (Landa)
Theresa Lindsey – Daddy-O (Golden World)
Ted Taylor – (Love Is Like A) Ramblin’ Rose (Okeh)
Delores Hall – Good Lovin’ Man (Keymen)
Shirelles – Last Minute Miracle (Scepter)
Homer Banks – 60 Minutes of Your Love (Minit)
Four Larks – Groovin’ At the Go Go (Tower)
Jimmy Hanna and the Dynamics – Leaving Here (Seafair/Bolo)
Lee Garrett – I Can’t Break the Habit (Harthon)
Otis Clay – I Got To Find A Way (One-Derful)
Wynder K Frog – Dancing Frog (UA)
Eyes of Blue – Heart Trouble (Deram)
The Soul City – Everybody Dance Now (Goodtime)
Mary Wells – Can’t You See (You’re Losing Me) (Atco)
Jimmy Holiday – The New Breed (Diplomacy)
G. Davis and R. Tyler – Hold On Help Is On the Way (Parlo)
Joann and Troy – Who Do You Love (Atlantic)
The Olympics – Mine Exclusively (Mirwood)
Bobby Hollaway – Cornbread Hog Maws and Chitterlins (Smash)
Warren Lee – Star Revue (Deesu)
Rubaiyats – Omar Khayyam (Sansu)
Betty Lavette – I Feel Good All Over (Calla)
The Performers – I Can’t Stop You (Mirwood)
Irma Thomas – What Are You Trying To Do (Imperial)
Roger and the Gypsies – Pass the Hatchet Pt1 (Seven B)
Gene Waiters – Shake and Shingaling Pt1 (Fairmount)
The Eldorados – The New Breed (Port)
Albert Collins – Cookin’ Catfish (20th Century Fox)
Bob and Earl – Harlem Shuffle (Marc)
Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band – (I Gotta) Hold On To My Love (Picadilly)
The Chitlins – Sugar Woman (Pala)
Jeanne and the Darlings – Soul Girl (Volt)
Wayne Cochran – Going Back to Miami (Mercury)
Danny White – Cracked Up Over You (Decca)

Trading one for one with Mr Finewine

Billy Davis – Stanky Get Funky (Cobblestone)
Little Bob and the Lollipops – I Got Loaded (La Louisianne)
Harvey – Any Way You Wanta (Tri Phi)
BJ and the Profits – It’s Gonna Rain Outside (Uptown)
Scatman Crothers- Golly Zonk! (It’s Scat Man!) (HBR)
Ross D Wylie – Do the Uptight (A&M)
Dinah Washington – Soulville (Roulette)
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers – I Gotta Go Now (Out On the Floor) (Like)
Richie Barrett – Some Other Guy (Atlantic)

Listen/Download Funky16Corners Presents: A Fat Stack O’45s Mixed MP3 147MB/256KB

Greetings all

This is a re-up of a post from December of 2013, from a night a spent spinning 45s with Mr Finewine at Botanica in NYC.

Dig it and I will see you all next week.

Keep the Faith

Larry

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Mr Finewine cues up another killer!

This past Wednesday I had the privilege of joining Matt ‘Mr Finewine’ Weingarden at his regular weekly shindig at Botanica in New York City.

Thanks to a variety of difficulties – most of which have been covered in this space – I haven’t been able to get out and spin soul 45s for more than two years, and I was eager to get back on the decks.

It turned out to be a very groovy affair indeed, with some heavy record people – including Connie T. Empress of the Empire State Soul Club (and Asbury Park 45 Sessions) and my man Keenan Popwell falling by to soak up the sounds.

Connie T. Empress and Keenan Popwell rap about wax.

I also got to meet some new folks (Monk One was in the house), and sample a couple of glasses of sparkling ginger beer (I had to drive back to NJ…).

The only bummer was, once we got ready to toss some platters on the decks, my trusty digital recorder decided not to cooperate, and would not fire up, preventing me from recording my set live.

Somebody’s got a frowny face… (I’m probably thinking about the drive home).

Not one to let a little technology rain on my parade, I sat down this morning (after not quite enough sleep) and typed up my set list, then moved over to my turntables and mixer to recreate my set.

I was on the decks for about an hour and twenty minutes, and then Matt and I closed out the night by trading off, 45 for 45. Though I did not recreate that part of the evening, I listed the 45s I played above.

Mr Finewine was an exceptionally gracious host, and I really had a gas. Hopefully I’ll be getting back into the city to spin some more in the coming year. I will of course keep you apprised of any upcoming dates.

I hope you dig the sounds, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Now I’m gonna take me a nap…

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, May 6, 2018 11:35 am

Group Therapy

Listen/Download – Group Therapy – Really Together MP3

Greetings all.

Today’s selection appears courtesy of one of my increasingly rare trips to one of my old digging stomping grounds (rare because the pickings they are slim, and I’m disinclined to haul my ass 45 minutes out of the way on the off chance that they aren’t on any given day).

That said, I’d never heard of Group Therapy (at least this one) before, but the presence on the album of a bunch of interesting covers (many of them soul songs) cemented the deal and I tossed it on my “keeper” stack.

As it turns out, Group Therapy were a NYC-based act that put out two albums on RCA in 1967 and 1968.

The occupy the same amped-up take on the Rascals sound as Vanilla Fudge ( a considerably more subtle take), i.e. a rock band that loved soul music.

My premier reason for buying this record, though, was the presence of a truly unusual cover version.

Billy Vera and Judy Clay’s ‘Really Together’ (the 1967 flipside of ‘Storybook Children’, which really only features Vera) is a longtime favorite of mine. An absolutely storming bit of soul, clocking in at well under two minutes.

I had no idea that it had ever been covered, so I had to hear the Group Therapy version.

While it’s not quite as blazing as the OG, the version by Group Therapy is quite good, with some throbbing bass, Hammond organ and a great lead vocal.

The rest of the album is a mixed bag of psychedelic workouts like ‘Morning Dew’ and ‘Foxy Lady’ and soul covers (including another, very early cover of ‘Expressway To Your Heart’).

It’s not terribly expensive, so if this is a sound you dig, go out and grab yourself a copy.

I hope you dig it.

See you next week.

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Larry

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By Larry, April 29, 2018 10:01 am

The Vibrations

Listen/Download – The Vibrations – Love In Them There Hills MP3

Greetings all.

Today’s selection is yet another chapter in the musical pipeline between Philadelphia and Chicago.

The mighty Vibrations recorded a string of Lps and 45s first for Checker, and then for Okeh between 1960 and 1968, before moving on to the Philly-based Neptune an North Bay labels in the 70s.

Group member Carl Fisher had contributed songwriting to a number of Philly records under his own name and the pseudonym ‘Del Shahr’ during the 60s, and today’s selection, ‘Love In Them There Hills’ was penned by Philly giants Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff (with help from Roland Chambers) and was released in 1968.

The song was covered a year later by Maxine Brown on Epic and then in 1974 by the Pointer Sisters on ABC/Blue Thumb.

The Vibrations version starts off with a Latin flair, before the drums and voices drop in with the funk. The production by Gamble and Huff is tight.

‘Love In Them There Hills’ was the Vibrations last hit, making nto the R&B Top 40 and the Pop Hot 100.

I hope you dig the track, and I’ll see you all next week.

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Larry

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By Larry, April 22, 2018 10:42 am

Sensei Curtis

Listen/Download – Curtis Mayfield – Kung Fu MP3

Greetings all.

What Better way to east into the week than with some mellow, timely Curtis?

You all know that Curtis Mayfield was/is where it’s at, as composer, Impression, singer, guitarist and spirit of all things soulful.

Today’s selection, ‘Kung Fu’ (and you know there’s some 44 year old out there carrying the name with him) hails from the 1974 LP ‘Sweet Exorcist’, which seems to have been pieced together with some older/existing tracks and some then-current material.

No matter how or why this album was assembled, the bottom line is that it is prime, mid-70s Curtis (‘Kung Fu’ was an R&B Top 5 hit, making it into the Pop Top 40) and it has both a tasty groove, as well as a story to tell.

I have no doubt that Curtis had the strong, stoic wanderer Caine on his mind when he composed the tale of persistence in the ghetto, with a tip of the hat to the Temps ‘Papa Was a Rolling Stone’.

The groove is subdued but strong, with the bass and a stabbing organ setting the tone, with some barely perceptible strings wavering underneath.

This is the sound of the city circa 1974, with Curtis walking a razor between defiance and despair.

It is both a head-nodder and a head-shaker, and if you’re not old enough to remember the early 70s, there’s enough going wrong in the world now for you to identify with the vibe of the song.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you all next week.

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Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 15, 2018 11:19 am

DJ Scott Boyko Set One
Pacific Ocean – I Wanna Testify (VMC)
John Roberts – Sockin 1-2-3-4 (Duke)
Tony Borders – What Kind of Spell (South Camp)
Jimmy Soul Clark – If I Only Knew (Karen)
Joe Tex – I Don’t Play (Dial)
The Secrets – No Matter What You Do to Me
The Sapphires – I’ve Got to Have Your Love (ABC/Paramount)
New World Soul Choir – Keep a Talkin’ (Uni)
Spinners – Just Can’t Help But Feel the Pain (Motown)
The Larks – Mickey’s East Coast Jerk (Money)
Bettye Swann – Don’t Take My Mind (Money)

Listen/Download – Scott Boyko – Northern Soul Set One 3/31/18 64MB/Mixed MP3

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DJ Larry Grogan Set One
Roger and the Gypsies – Pass the Hatchet (Seven B)
Yvonne Fair – Baby Baby Baby (Smash)
Gentleman June Gardner – It’s Gonna Rain (Emarcy)
Sam Cooke – Shake (RCA)
King Solomon – Louisiana Groove (Cadillac)
Johnny Daye – I Need Somebody (Stax)
Johnny Wyatt – Everybody’s Goin’ Mod (Mustang)
Ted Taylor – (Love Is Like) A Ramblin’ Rose (Okeh)
Lonnie Youngblood – Go Go Shoes (Fairmount)
Billy Mack – Son of a Lover (Betty)
Chuck Edwards – Downtown Soulville (Punch)
Steve Colt and the 45s – A Little Bit of Soul (RCA)
Johnny Maestro – Come See Me (Parkway)
Chuck Berry – Back To Memphis (Mercury)
Koko Taylor – The Egg or the Hen (Checker)
Jimmy Hannah and the Dynamics – Leaving Here (Seafair/Bolo)
Lynne Randell – It’s a Hoe Down (Epic)
Billy Preston – Let the Music Play (Capitol)
Roy Lee Johnson – Boogaloo #3 (Josie)
Mr Wiggles – Fatback Pt 1 (Parkway)
Howard Peters – Soulville (Coral)
Bobby Newton – Do the Whip (Mercury)
Henry Lumpkin – Soul Is Taking Over (Buddah)
Mamie Galore – Special Agent 34-24-38 (St Lawrence)
Thelma Jones – Stronger (Barry)
Little Milton – Grits Ain’t Groceries (Checker)

Listen/Download – Larry Grogan – Northern Soul Set One 3/31/18 147MB/Mixed MP3

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DJ Scott Boyko Set Two
P.J. Proby – Niki Hoeky (Imperial)
Dick Whittington’s Cats – In the Midnight Hour (Round)
Johnnie Mae Matthews – Two Sided Thing (Big Hit)
M. Ali and J. Tucker – Shuffle With Ali (Diamond Jim)
Soul Brothers Six – You Better Check Yourself (Atlantic)
Dee Dee Sharp – Bye Bye Baby (Atco)
Kim Weston – You’re Just the Kind of Guy (MGM)
Chubby Checker – At the Discotheque (Parkway)
Jackie Lee – Bring it Home (Mirwood)
Bob and Earl – Dancin’ Everywhere (Mirwood)
The Delights Orchestra – Paul’s Midnight Ride (Atco)
Party Bros – Do the Groundhog (Revue)
Taurus and Leo – I Ain’t Playing Baby (Velvet Sound)
Garnet Mimms – Prove it to Me (UA)
Brothers of Soul – Hurry Don’t Linger (Boo)
Carla Thomas – Dime a Dozen (Stax)
Bobby Patterson – Soul is Our Music (Jet Star)
Wilmer and the Dukes – Get It (Aphrodisiac)
Leon Haywood – It’s the Last Time (Decca)
Jesse James – If You’re Lonely (20th Century Fox)
Panic Button – Hitch It to the Mule (Chalom)

Listen/Download – Scott Boyko – Northern Souul Set Two 120MB/Mixed MP3

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Larry and Scott close out the night going one-for-one
Incredibles – I Can’t Get Over Losing Your Love (Audio Arts)
The Commands – Hey It’s Love (Dynamic)
Mad Lads – Not Time Is Better Than Right Now (Volt)
Little Jerry Williams – Just What Do You Plan To Do About It (Calla)
Exciters – Blowing Up My Mind (RCA)
Tony Talent – Gotta Tell Somebody About My Baby (Vando)
Aldora Britton – Do It With Soul (Columbia)
Mad Men – African Twist (Gamble)
Zodiacs – Surely (Deesu)
Lee Dorsey – Tears Tears and More Tears (Polydor)
Trade Martin – Moanin’ (RCA)

Listen/Download – Larry Grogan & Scott Boyko go one-for-one Northern Soul 3/31/18 67MB/Mixed MP3

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Greetings all.

A few weeks back I was invited to bring my record box up to my man Scott Boyko’s Northern Soul night at (dig this) Northern Soul kitchen and bar in Hoboken, NJ.

I recorded almost the whole night, and what you see before you are two sets by Scott, one long set by me, and a shorter set at the end of the night where Scott and I go one-for-one trading off.

There is a grip of good music to be heard, so pull down the ones and zeroes and get hip.

See you next week.

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Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 8, 2018 5:48 pm

Give Everybody Some
Mixed Live by Funky16Corners for This is Funkaholic
Intro
The Bar-kays – Give Everybody Some (Volt)
Artie Christopher – Stoned Soul (Atlantic)
Blue Mitchell – H.N.I.C. Pt1 (Blue Note)
Jomo – Uhuru (Checker)
Ernest Van Treose and the McDaniel Mary Street Band – Medicine Man (RCA)
Cliff Nobles & Co. – The Camel (Phil LA of Soul)
James Brown- Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (LP/Instrumental Mix) (King)
Detroit City Limits – 98 Cents Plus Tax (Okeh)
Ray Pereira – They Say (Columbia Fr.)
Soul Brothers – Horsing Around (Newmiss)
Inez & Charlie Foxx’s Swinging Mocking Band – Speed Ticket (Dynamo)

Listen/Download – F16C for This Is Funkaholic! – Give Everybody Some 67MB/Mixed MP3

Greetings all.

This is a re-post of a mix I did for the This Is Funkaholic! Radio Show back in 2015.

‘Give Everybody Some’ is a half hour of tasty, mostly instrumental funk (you can listen to the entire show here) . There are a couple of old faves, some things that have appeared here recently, and some groovy new stuff that’ll make it here in the future.

I thought it’d be cool to post it here for those of you that weren’t able to catch it when it aired.
Until next week

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Larry

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By Larry, April 1, 2018 11:25 am

Jimmy Preacher Ellis

Listen/Download – Jimmy Preacher Ellis – (C’Mon) Dance to the Drumbeat MP3

Greetings all.

The 45 I bring you today is a particularly groovy selection from the long and diverse discography of Jimmy Ellis.

Recording for a variety of labels between 1965 and well into the 2000s, Ellis, billed alternately as Jimmy/Jimmie Preacher Ellis/Ellie, Ellis got his start in Arkansas (on one of his records he gives himself a shout out as an ‘Arkansas Soul Brother!’) but seems to have done most of his recording in and around Los Angeles for labels like Kris and Round.

Most of his stuff has a bluesy edge to it, and he seems to have moved all the way over to the blues later on in his career.

Today’s selection, ‘(C’Mon) Dance to the Drumbeat’ is, thanks to the bizarre catalog numbers on the Kris label – impossible to date decisively, but my ears suggest that it is aof a late 60s vintage.

Ellis, who would go on to make some excellent, hard edged psych soul like ‘I Gotta See My Baby’, is in instrumental mode here, with (as advertised) the drummer stepping out in front.

The song opens as if it’s going into ‘Sock It To Em JB’ but gives way to a saxophone solo over a mildly funky beat. It’s only at the 2:00 mark that the drummer lets loose with a 15 second break, aided by some groovy soul clapping.

It’s not a terribly expensive 45 (I got mine on the cheap) so if you dig it, go and get yourself some.

Until next week

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Larry

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By Larry, March 25, 2018 1:52 pm

Mason and Dixon

Listen/Download – Mason and Dixon – Soul Power MP3

Greetings all.

The track I bring you today is something I picked up while I was out digging on the strength of the song, that being a cover of Derek Martin’s ‘Soul Power’.

I had never heard of Mason and Dixon before, and there’s precious little information out there about them.

Their names were Bobby Mason and Tony Dixon, and they appear to have fronted a showband that was based in and popular around New England from the late 60s into the late 70s.

The recorded an album for Tower in 1969 and then singles for Buttercup and Metronome in the early 70s.

The Buttercup connection is the most interesting.

The label was owned by Teddy Randazzo, and was relatively short-lived, releasing only five singles between 1970 and 1971, two by Mason and Dixon, one by Sheila Anthony, and two by Derek Martin.

Martin’s Buttercup 45, ‘The Moving Hands of Time’ is a fantastic, moody piece of psych/soul, which I will bring to you if I ever get my hands on a clean copy.

I’ll assume that Mason and Dixon got their hands on ‘Soul Power’ (also written by Randazzo) because of the label’s connection to Martin, who had recorded the song for the Detroit label Tuba, and then had it picked up by Volt in 1967.

The Mason and Dixon version is very cool indeed, with funky bass, horns and a great dual vocal by the singers.

As far as I can tell none of their stuff met with any national success, with the flipside of this 45 (a medley of MacArthur Park and I Don’t Want To Cry) charting at a single station in Missouri.

It’s a groovy 45, and if anyone has any more info about the band, please drop me aline in the comments.

Until next week

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Larry

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By Larry, March 18, 2018 11:20 am

Listen/Download – Ronnie Rae and the Dynamics – Funky Shuffle MP3

Greetings all.

The 45 I bring you today started out as a mystery record.

A group that made only one single, on a label that only released one single, with no address on the label.

I cannot recall where I put my hands on Funky Shuffle by Ronnie Rae and the Dynamics, other than it came from a sales list (as opposed to a random dig in the field).

The record sounds like a white band with a soulful bent, with the flipside, ‘Breaktime’ leaning in a more garage-y direction.

‘Funky Shuffle’ quickly reveals itself to be a rewrite of ‘Harlem Shuffle’, with wild lead vocals, relentless combo organ, spooky background vocals and a solid drummer.

Though 45Cat suggests that this is a 1966 release (certainly not out of the question) I haven’t seen any other corroborating information to confirm that.

The single clue as to the origin of this record is the authorship of the flipside, attributed to Jules Kruspir.

Kruspir was a Pittsburgh, PA operator, managing the doowop group the Marcels, and running St Clair records, home to a wide variety of Western Pennsylvania acts including garage punk legends the Swamp Rats.

A Google search reveals a couple of local newspapers, in Pittsburgh and Morgantown from the late 60s with ads for performances by Ronnie Rae and the Dynamics (both, sadly hidden behind paywalls, so I was unable to see them in detail).

If anyone has any additional information on the band, please let me know.

Until next week

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Larry

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By Larry, March 11, 2018 11:13 am

The Mothership,now boarding…

Parliament/Intro
Afro-Samurai
Dick Hyman – Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose
Capt Sisko
Jimi Hendrix – 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
Morpheus/1
Scientist – The Dark Secret of the Box
Morpheus/2
Dorothy Ashby – Soul Vibrations
Gene Harris – Don’t Call Me Ni**er Whitey
The Brother From Another Planet
Phil Upchurch – Elektrik
Lando Calrissian
Electrostats – 21st Century Kenya
Mace Windu
Isaac Redd Holt Unlimited – Listen to the Drums
Darth Vader
Roots Radics Band – Son of Darth Vader
Mr Spock/Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Brother Jack McDuff – Moon Rappin’ (Edit)
Lt Uhura
Rotary Connection – Tales of Brave Ulysses
Danger Mouse/Murs/Free Design – To a Black Boy
Shuggie Otis – Pling!
EddieHarris feat Blind Willie Johnson – Dark Were the Silver Cycles (F16C Mash)
Sun Ra

Listen/Download Funky16Corners Presents: The Mothership Mix

Note: What you see before you is a re-post of a mix I did (one of my faves) back in 2014 to accompany a literary anthology (see story below). It was (and remains) a bit of a departure for Funky16Corners, but I dig it and I think you will too. – Larry

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Greetings all

Welcome to the new week.

I have something very groovy for you today.

A while back, one of my favorite Facebook-made acquaintances, the author Bill Campbell told me that he was assembling an anthology of afrofuturistic stories, and was thinking about using a mix as part of the Indiegogo campaign.

That anthology, ‘Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism and Beyond’ is very, very cool, and I would suggest you avail yourself of a copy either in paper, or digital form. Make sure to check out the Rosarium Publishing web site as well.

Always looking for an interesting challenge, I offered my services in furtherance of that goal, and Bill said yes.

The mix you see before you is one of those that I had rolling around the back alleys of my mind for a long time before I actually stated pulling out records, digging for drops etc.

The concept of afrofuturism is especially intriguing, and the thought of finding its application in musical form really got me thinking.

There are musicians included in this mix that worked the conceptual side of things rather directly, like Jimi Hendrix and George Clinton, and some that worked their way into the groove stylistically (Eddie Harris, Shuggie Otis) and others that just created a specific piece of music that seemed destined for inclusion in the mix (Dick Hyman’s epic reworking of JB for instance).

I was trying to create a vibe – which is what you ought to be doing with a mix, anyway – but in this instance, it was far removed from the dance floor and drilled deep inside the head (via the ears, naturally).

This is definitely one for the headphones, trippy, often deep, sometimes weird and in several spots traveling outside the known boundaries of the Funky16Corners universe.

I’m proud to have been given the opportunity to work with Bill, and very happy with the mix.

I hope you dig it too.

I’ll be back later in the week with another brand new mix.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 4, 2018 12:38 pm

The Salem Travelers

Listen/Download – The Salem Travelers – Wade In the Water MP3

Greetings all.

How about some deep, soulful gospel to get your week rolling?

The Salem Travelers were one of the more interesting Chicago-based gospel outfits.

Their mid-to-late 60s recordings are a great bridge between classic gospel and the sounds of soul and funk.

Though they’re best known for their string of albums or Checker in the late 60s and early 70s, they got their start recording for Halo, the gospel imprint of Chicago’s One-Der-Ful records.

Their recording of the spiritual classic (and one of my favorite songs) ‘Wade In the Water’ hails from 1966, and as soulful version of the song go, it’s one of my faves.

It has a slightly rough feel to it (the vaguely out of tune piano, possibly the very same one that appears on a number of One-Der-Ful/Mar-V-Lus 45s has something to do with that) but the group’s vocals are tight and take off into the stratosphere, especially after the introduction.

Sadly, I don’t think the Salem Travelers stuff has been comped, so your only way to pick it up is on the original pressings.

If you dig the tune, head on over to the archive for Testify!, my WFMU show and dig the long set of versions of ‘Wade In the Water’, many of them radically different.

I hope you dig the tune, and I’ll see you all next week.

Until next week.

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Keep the faith

Larry

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