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07 Steppe Groove

Sent It To The Senate - Live

I‘ll Be-Your-Santa-Baby

the funky delight

Get on the Groove Train

Funk It Up

Artist: Flaverpak
Track: Back To Me Club Mix

Vocals: Joel Hellerman
Guitar: Mike Schaadt
Bass: Jaimie Keller
Drums: Paul Jones

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Intro Original

Welcome to the cosmic contradiction, baby!
Where the dollars do the talking and the poor man walks the walk.
Y'all ready to ride the capitalist rollercoaster? Haha!

Strutting down Wall Street, with a silver spoon in my mouth,
I got a golden parachute, in case this thing goes south.
Printing money in the basement, while the poor man pays the price,
This funky system's got us chasing, that capitalist paradise.

We're doing the funky dollar dance, (Oh yeah)
Where the rich get richer, by chance or by glance. (Ain't that funky now?)
In this game of monopoly, we're just taking a stance,
Spinning round in circles, in the funky dollar dance.

CEOs in their ivory towers, sipping on champagne,
While the workers lose their powers, drowning in the rain.
The stock market's a disco, but not everyone's invited,
Only the VIPs get to disco, while the rest are just divided.

Funky dollar dance, (Get down with it)
Where the money makes moves, that just don't make sense. (Talk about funky)
You gotta pay to play, pay to enhance,
Caught up in the rhythm, of the funky dollar dance.

Spun down Wall Street, with a silver spoon in my mouth,
I got a golden parachute, in case this thing goes south.
Printing money in the basement, while the poor man pays the price,
This funky system's got us chasing, that capitalist paradise.

Funky Dollar Dance
Get down with thang!
These addictions play out in a capitalist exchange
But together we stand, together we advance
Breaking free from the chains of the Funky Dollar Dance

Funky Dollar Dance
Shake your thang!
Where the money makes moves that just don't make sense
Tell the Funky, you the Funk
We gotta pay the pledge

Contradiction
Contradiction
Contradiction

Now, listen here! It ain't no secret, the system's rigged, you dig?
But when we lay down this groove, we expose the gig.
So, funk with us, as we tear down this capitalist facade,
And bring the power back to the people, now that's truly avant-garde!

In the land of the free, they say you can reach the stars,
But the ladder's broken, baby, owned by those fancy cars.
Let's funk up this system, make it truly ours,
With the power of the people, brighter than a thousand bars.

Funky dollar dancer, (Shake your thang)
Where contradictions play out, in a capitalist exchange. (Feel the funk)
But together we stand, together we advance,
Breaking free from the chains, of the funky dollar dance.

Funky Dollar Dance

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https://fanlink.tv/JoGoGroove

'(That) JoGo Groove' featuring Bravo Reds and Greg Boyer is much more than a sum of its parts. Inhabiting the pre-gogo sound of Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, while pushing hard The JoGo Project's message of universal groove. Call and response vocals led by established DC talker Bravo Reds, with peppered-in old school ad libs lay the funk on thick. Then the trombone solo comes in to seal the deal, played by P-Funk All Star Greg Boyer, who's shared stages with Prince, George Clinton, Maceo Parker, and Chuck Brown for decades.

The JoGo Project, is a WAMMIE Award-winning jazz and gogo band from Washington, DC founded in 2014 by Washingtonian and local Jazz Ambassador Elijah Jamal Balbed, who performed with the Godfather of GoGo Chuck Brown the last year of Mr. Brown's life. JoGo has been a consistent force, performing live shows in the DC area and recently expanding to the Mid-Atlantic and Southern US. In 2018 they made history as the first gogo band to perform in Russia on a cultural diplomacy tour on behalf of the U.S. State Department.

The JoGo Project has self-released a handful of singles and are now joining Growroom Productions with the goal of expanding JoGo's reach and bringing the live show around the globe again. Much as Balbed's mentor, Chuck Brown, did in the early 70s, he plans to bring the sound of DC to the masses with his unique blend of jazz and gogo. By building on the grooves of Chuck's Soul Searchers, '(That) JoGo Groove' gives the listener something funky to bop to, with a catchy hook that you'll find yourself singing long after the song is over.

Writers :
Ronald Dixon Jr aka Bravo Reds - Lyrics
Elijah Jamal Balbed - Music

Performers :
Elijah Jamal Balbed - Tenor Saxophone, Keys, Vox
Ronald Dixon Jr aka Bravo Reds - Vox
Desiree Jordan - Vox
Greg Boyer - Trombone, Vox
Brad Clements - Trumpet
Walter Cosby - Electric Bass
Kevin Smith aka BigFootz - Drum set
Mike Burney Jr aka Shahid - Congas, Percussion
Marcus Young - Keys
Zach Cutler - Guitar

Production :
Rob Folson - Mix and Recording Engineer
Thump Studios District Heights, Maryland
Roy Battle Jr. - Mastering Engineer

Art Direction : Elijah Jamal Balbed, Lee Durham

The JoGo Project - (That) JoGo Groove [Vocal]

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