Funk is its own reward

Ice Cube & George Clinton Ft Zapp Dj Pac Remix

From Solar Wind, 1974. This album is out of print, ridiculously enough.

Ramsey Lewis - Hummingbird

Trippin'Kid

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic - Stomp

With their first two Daptone albums – Get an Understanding, and as featured singers on Como Now – The Como Mamas established themselves as three of the strongest voices in gospel music today.
 
In December of 2015, they cemented that reputation by taking their first trip from their home in Como, MS up to Harlem, NY to crush the Apollo Theater as part of the Daptone Super Soul Revue. Taking full advantage of their presence in town, the Daptone crew brought Ester Mae Wilbourn, Della Daniels and Angelia Taylor into the House of Soul the week after the show to join forces for the first time with the musicians and studio that has defined their label’s sound.

Jimmy Hill, Thomas Brenneck, Homer Steinweiss, and Bosco Mann, all stalwarts of the Daptone stable, came together as “The Glorifiers Band,” to put down a churning musical foundation for these amazing singers. The results are some of the heaviest tracks that Daptone has cut to date. If you don’t like raw, soulful gospel music, you’re really gonna hate this one. Move Upstairs is a REAL mother!

Move Upstairs

The Como Mamas - Move Upstairs

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - My Journey to the Sky

Mixtape Love on the beat Special P-Funk/Funk

05 GEORGE CLINTON - If anybody gets funked you

George Clinton & The_P-funk_allstars)-megamix

The Robert Cray Band comes with guns blazing to perform at 88.1 KDHX in St. Louis.  Recorded September 14, 2012.  Enjoy.  Recorded by Jon Valley and Mary Belzer.  Discover more great music at http://kdhx.org.

The Robert Cray Band "I'm Done Crying" Live at KDHX 09/14/12

Music - T. S. Monk - Can't Keep My Hands To Myself

Track: All Blues
Artist:Jim hall, chet baker, grover washington jr 
 Album:youkali 

All Blues - Jim hall, chet baker, grover washington jr

2009 marks Soulive's 10th Anniversary and over the past 10 years, Soulive have covered a lot of ground musically and literally. Not many bands can say they have recorded with Chaka Khan, Dave Matthews, Talib Kweli and John Scofield. Nor can many bands open for The Rolling Stones on one tour and have Stevie Wonder sit in with them on the next tour, and who else has recorded for legendary labels such as Blue Note, Concorde AND Stax Records? Pedigree indeed!

Of this brand new album founding member, drummer Alan Evans says "This is the Soulive album I've always wanted to record. It's what I've been hearing in my head for years, like when people say "if I could go back in time knowing what I know now" Well, that's what we did with Up Here. The session had the vibe and energy of Get Down but with all of our experiences from the past 10 years put down on tape in a very meaningful way"

The record's opening track "Upright" immediately sets the tone with a completely infectious hook featuring keyboard maestro Neal Evans on an old upright piano. There are some nods to the "old-school" on the record. "For Granted" is a tip of the hat to Grant Green, and Eric plays licks reminiscent of his early solos on Get Down and Turn It Out. Guest vocalist Nigel Hall tears it up on "Too Much" (also released as a killer Freestyle funk 45 FSR7059) while Eric's guitar sings like D'Angelo on the laid-back grind of "Put on Yo Pajamas" (P J's)

The entire record features tight horn arrangements from long-time Soulive collaborators and friends, Sam Kininger and Ryan Zoidis otherwise know as The Shady Horns

No matter how you listen to Up Here, it sounds like you're listening to vintage vinyl. One of the most difficult things about making a record with a great live band is capturing all that live energy while still making the record that's about songs. Up Here does as good a job as any record could in accomplishing this. "Straight up", says Alan, "this is the first Soulive album that I can say every tune on it is my favorites on the album". 

SOULIVE - 07 Hat Trick

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way

Tootie Ma - Preservation Hall Jazz band featuring Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs and Frank Demond

Renato Carosone   Piccolissima Serenata

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SOULIVE - 07 Hat Trick

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