Funk 45s and Other Rare Grooves Format:CD The songs themselves run the

The songs themselves run the gamut: southern boogie rock

near puritanical public she played to anyway

sweet relief was being back among true professionals

Before he reinvented himself as nonsense king Gamma Goochee

The transient young people who’d invaded the Bay Area to cash in on the media’s cheap drugs/free love promises had departed for points east

Funk 45s and Other Rare Grooves Format:CD The songs themselves run theSo what is funk? Its sometimes difficult to know. In the 1950s, the piano style of both Ray Charles and Horace Silver were described as funk, and the word itself has long associations with black music, going back even further into history. Clearly the success of James Brown at the tail end of the 1960ssay from Cold Sweat onwardsestablished the funk era, but the Godfather of super heavy funk had already set out his stall with Papas Got A Brand New Bag