Monthly Archives: May 2011
This single is available in this CD collection: Singles 9: 1973-1975. It’s also available in this MP3 collection: The Singles Vol. 9 (1973-1975). Reality is a chunk of super heavy funk; “This used to be called the Shakespeare now it’s called the streets of starvation”. I Need Your Love So […]
1975 Polydor 45: Reality/I Want Your Love So ...
This album needs to be reissued! Deep Soul, R&B, Blues and Rock bop on this great tribute album. Little Willie John was a fellow artist on the King label.
1968 King LP: Thinking About Little Willie John ...
This single is available in this brilliant CD collection: Funky Good Time: Anthology. It’s also available in this MP3 collection: Funky Good Time: The Anthology. Another sure-shot on the People label. Can you do the Camel Walk?
1976 People 45: The J.B.’s with James Brown ...
This single is available in this CD collection: Singles 6: 1969-1970. And this MP3 collection: The Singles Volume Six: 1969-1970. Deep low down dirty funk from 1969. Everybody was copping the sound of funk but JB and the band were refining the sound and making it as sharp as a […]
1969 King 45: I Don’t Want Nobody To ...
This album is available on vinyl reissue here: Reality(LP vinyl). JB brings not only the funk but a good dose of consiousness in this brilliant mid 70s record. The orchestration adds a dreaminess to the lush James Brown production. Funky President is worth the admission price alone, but the whole album […]
1975 Polydor LP: Reality
You can get this single in this must have CD collection: Funky Good Time: Anthology. It’s also available in this MP3 collection: Funky Good Time: The Anthology. The funk don’t get more uncut than this. In ’73 the funk was starting to show up all over the place, but JB […]
1973 People 45: James Brown & the J.B.’s ...
This LP is available on vinyl reissue: For Sweet People From Sweet Charles [Vinyl LP] [Stereo]. Sweet funk, sweet soul and sweet R&B from the great Sweet Charles aka Charles Sherell. A regular in the JB stable of artists as a musician as well as a singer. This is the […]
1974 People LP: Charles Sherell – For Sweet ...
This single is available in this CD collection: Singles 4: 1966-1967. It’s also available in this MP3 collection: Singles 4: 1966-1967. More pure uncut flow from the fathers of FUNK; JB and his band.
1967 King 45: Get It Together (Part 1)/Get ...
The single, We Want to Parrty…, is available in this killer CD collection: Mama Feelgood: The Best of. An MP3 of it is available here: We Want To Parrty, Parrty, Parrty, Part 1 & 2. Lyn Collins always turned the heat up even higher on top of the J.B.’s funky beats. […]
1973 People 45: Lyn Collins – We Want ...
This single is available as MP3 here: Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses). JB made several great recordings on the TK label. This is one of them.
1980 TK Records 45: Rapp Payback (Where Iz ...
Pull over Beethoven!! JB still killing it in 1980, as is the band. Jimmy Nolen on blistering guitar. Nolen, who played with JB until he passed away in ’83, was one of the founding fathers of funk. His influence on modern music remains unsung. Dig that funky hat on JB! […]