The Funky 16 Corners
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2001-10-30
Music Label: Stones Throw
Soundtracks:
- Intro - Ebony Rhythm Band
- Dap Walk - Ernie And The Top Notes Inc.
- Let's Go (It's Summertime) - James Reese And The Progressions
- Trespasser - Bad Medicine
- The Funky 16 Corners - The Highlighters Band
- The Kick - The Rhythm Machine
- What About You (In The World Today) - Co Real Artists
- Interlude - Ebony Rhythm Band
- The Dump - Soul Vibrations
- Jody's Freeze - James Reese And The Progression
- Kashmere - Kashmere Stage Band
- Fish Head - Slim And The Soulful Saints
- Tighten Up Tighter - Billy Ball And The Upsetters
- Southside Funk - Soul Seven
- Can We Rap - Carleen And The Groovers
- Beautiful Day - Spider Harrison
- Go To Work (Alternative Version) - Revolution Compared To What
- The Phantom - Bubbha Thomas And The Lightmen Plus One
- In The Rain - The Wooden Glass
- Outro - Ebony Rhythm Band
- Bunky's Pick - Cut Chemist
- The Funky Buzzard - James Bell & The Turner Brothers
Free Music Notes for The Funky 16 Corners
Free Music Review: Super Rare Street Funk ! ! !
Hit: 5 Stars
Groups like this may at one time have been a dime a dozen (JBs/Archie Bell/Jr. Walker/Fatback Band type copy funk acts with slick rhythm guitar, punchy horns, funky fatback drums and very big afros I'm sure) but now they ain't a dime a dozen - - and odds are you've never heard most the stuff on this album. I suspect a lot of these groups may have had a hit or two on their (very) local scenes,then faded into obscurity... before doing so, collectively they did make magic... The KICKER on the album definitey has to be the LAST POETS-ish ultra jivey "jump rope" type rhyme "But What About You" thang... And while some of the recordings might sound a bit lo-fi on the surface, I have to say, this compilation is well worth it... Its raw STREET FUNK like you've never heard... As an example take THE KASHMERE STAGE BAND or ERNIE AND THE TOP NOTES... I'm sure they offered no threat to Archie Bell OR JBs - - but then again, you gotta admit, who did? The stuff is kicking nonetheless... And there are plenty of other tunes that are ultra, slick, Jazzy, jivey and funky... almost something you'd expect to hear in one of those clubs that would pop up in those old Rudy Ray Moore films.
All in all, more and more compilations like this are showing up. You might argue that they all sound the same, but you know something... I think a lot of these compilation reissues are SPOILING us funkahaulics... because there was a time that ALL funk (including most The Meters, Funkadelic and even most of JB's stuff from the 70s) was virtually lost and out of print. Well not only are they back, but people are hunting down the 45's too.
My answer... keep 'em comin' bro's... I'm game.
(P.S. Correction... Fish Head by Slim and The Soulful Saints may have made Maceo sweat a bit... *just* a bit...)
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