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🦋 Unfunkked 7

80 more minutes of good funk are now available from the Apostropher. Check it out -- I will listen and report more soon. This tape features nobody I'm familiar with... (So why am I calling it "good"? -- I've learned to trust Apo's ear in these matters. There will probably be like one clunker on the tape but the other 77 minutes will more than make up for it.)

OK... downloaded, burned, got it on the stereo. Not sure about Betty Davis but Nils Landgren is all right by me. The instrumentation is exactly like it should be. "Let me run into your lonely heart" sounds kind of like a faint echo of "House Party" -- I like it but after the high energy of that last song, it's not making much of an impact on my consciousness.

Now Cold Blood is picking it back up, and in an ideal way -- this is much different from the previous tracks. The opening instrumental is really nice and when the vocals come in, they really take me away. "Baby I Love You" is my new favorite track on this compilation... Yep, and "Never No Time to Burn" is pretty fantastic too. If "Let me run into your lonely heart" turns out to be the clunker track -- well, that would make this the best Unfunkked disk yet, possibly excluding #3 which I seem to remember liking really hugely.

...This stuff is just all great...

...And yes, Betty Davis is great too. The opening track didn't really grab me but the final track really made me move.

posted morning of Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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"nobody I'm familiar with"

Betty Davis (from Durham!) was briefly married to Miles Davis and purportedly had an affair with Jimi Hendrix. Eddie Kendricks was one of the founders of the Temptations. Bobby Byrd was James Brown's main sideman for years (and JB returns the backup vocals favor on the included track). Nils Landgren and Brian Culbertson are contemporary artists doin' the retro thing. Everybody else is fairly obscure.

Hope you enjoy it!

posted afternoon of July 29th, 2008 by apostropher

Betty Davis was briefly married to Miles Davis

Oh, you mean she's not the acress from Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Everbody else is fairly obscure

I maintain that the artists you reference are also "fairly obscure".

posted afternoon of July 29th, 2008 by Jeremy

(Be cool if Betty Davis covered "Bette Davis Eyes".)

posted afternoon of July 29th, 2008 by Jeremy

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