[ Soul Jazz / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 14 April 2008
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Featuring everyone from The Meters to Eddie Bo, Lee Dorsey to Betty Harris, this is a who's who of Windy City's most famous and most funky!
Soul Jazz Records' second volume of New Orleans Funk carries off exactly where the last one left off. With Ernie K Doe's "Here Come The Girls" riding high in the UK charts at Xmas thanks to a Boots ad (and featured on New Orleans Funk Vol. 1), this timely new collection brings together another 26 sure-fire funky New Orleans classics and rarities (which now fetch hundreds of pounds!).
Featuring everyone from The Meters to Eddie Bo, Lee Dorsey to Betty Harris, this is a who's who of Windy City's most famous and most funky!
Mixing Funk, Soul, Latin and Jazz elements, New Orleans Funk is a unique combination of styles that draw on the unique culture of the city - Mardi Gras Indians, Saturday Night Fish Fries, The Second Line Strut.
The album comes with extensive sleeve-notes, exclusive photography and more, this is an essential guide to the musical landscape of New Orleans and together with Soul Jazz Records' earlier New Orleans' releases presents the definitive story of New Orleans Funk.
1. Gossip - Neville, Cyril
2. If It's Good To You - Bo, Eddie
3. Chicken Strut - Meters
4. Show It - Harris, Betty
5. Hot Pants - Carbo, Hank
6. Tequila - Toussaint, Allen
7. Right Place Wrong Time - Ray J
8. Hot Tomales - Prime Mates
9. You Keep Me Hnaging On - Bonnie & Sheila
10. Four Corners - Dorsey, Lee
11. What Do You See In Her - Young, Inell
12. Yeah You're Right You Know You're Right - Gaturs
13. Street Parade - King, Earl
14. Twitch - White, Danny
15. Rubber Band - Bo, Eddie
16. Fortune Teller - Spellman, Benny
17. Mama Said We Can't Get Married - Lee, Warren
18. Soul Pusher - Chopper, Joe
19. 12 Red Roses - Harris, Betty
20. Hey Bo - Bo, Eddie
21. Haven't I Been Good To You - Moore, Johnny
22. Funky Belly - Lee, Warren
23. Hold On Help Is On It's Way - Davis, G. & R. Tyler
24. Mr Big Stuff - Hicks, Jimmy
25. Bo Diddley - Neville, Art
26. Dapp - Jones, Porgy