Various Artists – Southern Funkin’: Louisiana Funk And Soul 1967-1979 (CD)

Description

Release Date: 2005

Label: BGP

Track Lists

1. Soul Feeling Part 1 – Eddy “G” Giles
2. Soul Brothers Testify Part 1 – Chester Randle’s Soul Senders
3. Soul Power – Abraham & The Casanovas
4. Be A Man – Dynamic Adam & His Excitements
5. Stop – Camille “Lil” Bob
6. Miss Hard To Get – Dennis Landry
7. Everybody’s Doing It – Freddie Love
8. One Day – Tabby Thomas
9. Black Water Gold – The African Music Machine
10. Concentration – Dennis Landry
11. No Sad Times – Johnny Truit
12. Hell Or High Water – Katie Webster
13. I Got A Groove – JJ Caillier
14. Crazy Girl Part 1 – Freddie Love
15. Proud Man – Donnie Jacobs
16. Put It On – “Count” Rockin’ Sidney with The Dukes
17. Soul Time – Ernest Thomas
18. Fix It – Clifton White & His Royal Knights
19. Gonna Put My Foot Down – Bill Parker
20. Burry The Hatchet – “Count” Rockin’ Sidney
21. Wish You Were Here – Leroy Soileau
22. Soul Feeling Part 2 – Eddy “G” Giles

Notes

BGP returns with a foray into the unique and funky sounds that emanated from Louisiana from the late 60s through to the early 70s. The State has it’s own original take on black music influenced by New Orleans and tinged with the flavor of the area’s Creole culture, which for a large part is separate and self-sufficient from the mainstream of American life; this makes many of these not only highly desirable, but impossible to find. As ever with a BGP compilation we have unearthed some stone rarities and dance floor winners. The super-rare ‘One Day’ by Tabby Thomas, that sells for nearly a $1000 on the infrequent occasions when it comes up for sale, is one of funk’s holy grails, and the low-down and dirty ‘I Got a Groove’ by JJ Caillier also rarely surfaces. Katie Webster’s ‘Hell Or High Water’ is a fine example of “Sister Funk” that would rock any dance floor.