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Has anyone here heard of Spaghetti Head? Their single "Funky Axe" makes me want to fly around like a wizard. Can someone suggest to me some more groove-heavy country funk??
Beau

― Beau Richards, Monday, 26 July 2004 22:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

um, Joe South? i'm not sure what you're looking for...skynerd is kinda funky...early 70s waylon?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

or shit maybe ILM favs Bigg & Rich?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

just real dirty, drum-heavy, bass-thumping, funky, white-boy, soul...dare i say instrumental? some of moby grape is along these lines...(the grape jam album, especially). what do you think?

― beau richards, Monday, 26 July 2004 22:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

"all that you dream" by little feat!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

this compilation is fantastic. Volume 2 is out now too but i havent heard that one yet. pick of the bunch "i hate hate" by razzy and "short end of the stick" by donnie fritz.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

Bobbie Gentry's "Reunion"

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

Parliament - "Little Ol' Country Boy"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

That first Country Got Soul comp really is great. That Travis Wammick tune sounds like lo-fi Marvin Gaye.

Bobby Gentry seconded.

― Iggy Bliss, Monday, 26 July 2004 22:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

check out "heartworn highways" MOVIE

― duke nashville, Monday, 26 July 2004 22:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yancey OTM

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

so i remember listening to some Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintent and thinking that this stuff was ripe for sampling. it reminded me of the super funky tracks on the Turtles battle of the bands record (also worth checking out just because it fucking rocks and because it has both funk tracks and country and surf and psychedelic and trippy american indian and whatever else styles you can imagine). but, this was many years ago that i listened to him, and i could be completely wrong. someone tell me the truth.

also, Lee Hazelwood was doing a sort of 60s, 70s country pop thing that was pretty funky, and his album "13" is pure soul funk and if i remember, retained his country roots.

sorry i'm so wishy washy, but i think i'm right?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

tony joe white is your man. "polk salad annie." there's a great one-cd best of on Warner Bros Archives from about ten years ago.
joe south's "games people play" and "walk a mile in my shoes" are more pop than funky but great.
little feat's first four albums -- s/t, sailin shoes, dixie chicken, feats dont fail me now -- deliver the goods. the live waitin' for columbus is good as 70s live albums go.
"spiders and snakes" by jim stafford has a wah-wah guitar that's almost as funky as "shaft."
some of elvis p's early 70s stuff achieves country-funk altitude when james burton starts really picking.

― bob braun, Monday, 26 July 2004 22:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

oh yeah, yancey is OTM. Little Feat and Mountain and a few others were doing heavy country rock funk.

does ZZ top fit into this?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

Has anyone heard the vocal version of Spaghetti Head's "Funky Axe"? (Let alone anything else by this group?)

― Beau Richards (Beau Face), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

In addition to the Parliament track Sonny cites, I'd say "Music for My Mother," on the first Funkadelic album. Also not a white boy, but on Capricorn Records, the much-sampled "Ton-Ton Macoute!" by Johnny Jenkins.

'From Elvis in Memphis' (w/o Burton, tho right up your alley, from '69)
'Sticky Fingers'
'70s Delbert McClinton albums?
The records Allen Toussaint made under his own name in the '70s are also fairly country, laid-back and most definitely funky.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

Can I get a first name for Yancey? Allmusic is giving me a ton of them...

― Beau Richards (Beau Face), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

yancey is a poster here. OTM means on the money or on the mark. he suggested little feat

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

haha lordy

― Beau Richards (Beau Face), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

the title track of Willie Nelson's "Shotgun Willie" is surprisingly funky.

(begin countdown for chuck eddy to show up and ruin this thread with a Big n Rich rant)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 26 July 2004 23:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

Area Code 615. A group of Nashville session musicians let it all hang out on some ridiculous Beatles and Dylan covers, plus some originals.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Band's "Up On Cripple Creek" is extremely funky, too.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

I have no suggestions, but I bet Chuck Eddy has a ton.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

but make no mistake though:

yanc3y is a little bit country, a little bit funky.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

anyone listen to malcolm catto?

― Beau Richards (Beau Face), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

>I have no suggestions, but I bet Chuck Eddy has a ton. <

Yes, but he is very tired right now, so he will say only Jerry Reed and Black Oak Arkansas and Charlie Daniels Band and Molly Hatchet (and maybe Dixie Dregs and John Anderson?) and leave it at that.

― chuck, Monday, 26 July 2004 23:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Barefoot Jerry was kind of good in this vein.

Earlier someone asked about Sir Douglas Quintet. "Mendocino" LP from '69, recently (finally) reissued on CD, is pretty funky. "I Wanna Be Your Mama Again" gives you an idea of the funkiness within.

Some of the Everly Brothers' mid-'60s stuff is surprisingly funky.

Lee Dorsey doing "Games People Play" on his "Yes We Can" LP is great.

Billy Swan is pretty funky at times, too.

Charlie Rich's "Memphis and Arkansas Bridge" is a funky track, one of Rich's definitive moments. He did cool Jimmy Reed covers too.

And actually, Jim Dickinson's "Dixie Fried" falls into this category too. His version of Carl Perkins title track is fantastic.

Gary Stewart did some nice things you might like too.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

Gretchen Wilson "Chariot"
Waylon Jennings "Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me)"
all norteno acts, esp. Los Tucunes de Tijuana and Los Tigres del Norte
Flaco Jimenez "En Cielo No Hay Cerveza" / Doug Sahm and Texas Tornadoes seconded in x-post style
any version of "Me and Bobby McGee"
Cross Canadian Ragweed has some funky stuff methinks
Sara Evans "Rockin' Horse"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

Sugar Ray's "Just A Little" is more country-disco than country-funk, but inexplicable enough that I wanted to mention it anyway.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

>Cross Canadian Ragweed has some funky stuff methinks<

Wow, not on the albums I heard (one of which I liked okay). For country funk, I'd recommend Montgomery Gentry or Beck or just about anything recorded by white blues guys in 1929 over them anyday...(But even those seem kinda marginal where funkiness per se is concerned)

Doesn't James Brown have a couple country-leaning tracks, though? And what about Ray Charles? He must've bridged the gap once or twice...

And shit, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, fr crissakes!

John Fred and his Playboy Band? The Hombres?? I forget....

― chuck, Monday, 26 July 2004 23:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

The first Onyx single, whatever it was called. (a 12-inch on Profile, I think, several years before the MTV hits where they shouted a lot.)

Roger Miller, "My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died," maybe.

And maybe Rednex.

And Kid Rock, duh.....

― chuck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

>skynerd is kinda funky<

If being one of funkiest bands in human history = "kinda," I agree.

Even a couple Primus tracks (their only good ones, I think, though I forget what they were called) belong on here, probably.

(So yeah, I guess whoever said I had a ton of suggestions was right.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Even a couple Primus tracks (their only good ones, I think, though I forget what they were called) belong on here, probably."

jerry was a racecar driver off the first album definitely has a fingerpickin feel to it... would the live Gram Parsons stuff with James Burton on guitar qualify for this thread?

― drew, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 03:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

B2D is OTM with Flaco/Doug Sahm/Texas Tornados

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 04:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

You've gotta check out Swamp Dogg!! Totally wicked country/funk/soul. One of the most under rated artists ever IMO.

― oats (oats), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 08:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

larry jon wilson "sheldon churchyard" is this thread.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

The 'Country Got Soul' stuff, as the title suggests, is more country-soul, or actually pretty straight country in parts.

'Funk City' by Bad Bascombe has some crazy country fiddle playing.

Try also The Dependables' album 'Klatu Berrada Niktu' wherein the former Blues Magoos hitch up with Carl Radle, Jim Gordon et al to cover Hayes/Porter songs among others. It's got horns, it's got pedal steel - it's pure country-funk bliss.

― persecution_smith, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

im taking this thread to soulseek.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 09:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

I would have to include Lee Hazlewood's "13". The whole album is full of sex horns and country turmoil.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 10:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

There's "Synthetic World" and a couple of others by Swamp Dogg, formerly known as Swamp Doggy Dogg (well, not really!)
Sly & The Family Stone's "Spaced Cowboy" makes sense. And as far as cowboy songs go, might as well consider Thin Lizzy's and possibly Love's "Singing Cowboy" too. Not sure about Steve Miller's "Space Cowboy" (I've rarely heard it) but "The Joker" has countryish guitar parts and is sedately funky, but maybe TOO sedately. Funkadelic's "Biological Speculation" has pure honkytonk steel-guitar parts but nothing else even vaguely countryish. And The James Gang got funky on occasion, but only their bandname and album covers held up the cowboy end of the deal.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 20:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

larry jon wilson "sheldon churchyard" is this thread.

Christ! Larry Jon Wilson! I have that weirdass album he did on Monument, one of the great strange '70s new-south concept records.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 20:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

has anyone heard this?

Various -- Dirty Laundry -- The Soul Of Black Country . . . CD . . . $16.99 (Item: 375231)
Trikont (Germany), 1960s/1970s Condition: New Copy View Cart
An excellent collection of one of our favorite sides of southern soul -- the sub-stream of music that's clearly influenced by country music -- and which reflects the double-sided world of the southern recording scene! The tracks on the set provide a wonderful introduction to the genre -- and they mix together some well-known numbers with a wide variety of lesser-known tracks pulled from the indie side of the spectrum -- including some key numbers from the Nashville recording scene of the late 60s, clearly a key point of focus for this work. As with other Trikont sets, the notes alone are worth the price of admission -- and document the artists and tunes extremely well, both in German and in English. Titles include "Your Cheating Heart" by Bobby Powell, "He Called Me Baby" by Ella Washington, "What Condition My Condition Was In" by Betty Lavette, "There's A Heartbreak Somewhere" by Roscoe Shelton, "Almost Persuaded" by Etta James, "Bouquet Of Roses" by Bobby Womack, "Don't Take Her She's All I Got" by Freddie North, "In A Moment Of Weakness" by Johnny Adams, "Sixteen Tons" by James & Bobby Purify, "Dirty Laundry" by Curtis Mayfield, and "Till I Get It Right" by Willie Hobbs. 24 tracks in all!

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

it's like the opposite of Country Got Soul (which i LOVE)

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

HOLY FUCK I WANT THAT

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

(I love CGS too)

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

I got that. It rules.

(Honestly, I'm not sure what more I could--or would need to--say of it.)

― dark Horse, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

Another *great* Etta James country cover: "Would It Make Any Difference to You."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

Young Marble Giants - "Click Talk" manages to be a country-funk-electro blend. It's about time we had a genre called "rural dance."

― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

the cover alone makes me want to cry with joy.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 00:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

Funkadelic's 'Can you get to that'

― Dan Beale, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 01:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

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but why is that CD only available in the US thru "special order" from Other Music? very lame.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

oh never mind - Amazon has it on import for $25

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

my post is copied directly from Dustygroove.com - 16.99

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

weird - when I googled it I got the label's site, which is apparently out of date and/or inaccurate.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

"(I'm a) Ramblin' Man" by Waylon Jennings has made me want to do my stupid white guy dance more than a few times.

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

I dunno, that comp looks good, and I'd like to own it, too, but y'all do realize that Columbia/Legacy (I think that was the label, anyway -- somebody correct me if I'm wrong) put out a really good three-disc box set of country music by black folks a few years back, right? I am blanking out on its name right now, though...My copy is at home.

On the subject of country soul (and maybe even country funk, which this thread started out as): OC Smith, OV Wright, OB McClinton. Stoney Edwards. Lionel Richie. With and without his Commodores.

#1 and #2 albums on the country charts this week are by Dierks Bentley and Van Zant by the way. Both of which have tracks I'd have no problem slipping in between a couple disco records in a DJ set.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 26 May 2005 16:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oops, it was on Warner Bros, not Columbia. And here it is:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3v6tk6axwkr3

― xhuxk, Thursday, 26 May 2005 16:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

Big Al Downing DEFINITELY is worth otherwise checking out, too.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 26 May 2005 16:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

huh, the Staple Singers' absolutely gorgeous "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" is on that comp. looks like disc 3 is really where its at though...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 26 May 2005 16:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

seen the disc, but i just didn't feel like calling it 'black country'. on the notes for Solomon Burke's "Just Out of Reach" (the first great soul got country track?), he says that it sold to a lot of "black cowboys".

― Beta (abeta), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

I can't seem to track down a good copy of his "BW Goes C&W" album.
This was reissued on CD last year as a 2-fer with Lookin' For a Love Again on Stateside records. I haven't heard either album, but will likely pick up that disc soon.
One interesting story I heard about the BW Goes C&W album is that Womack wanted to call it Move Aside, Charley Pride, and Give Another Nigger a Try but United Artists wouldn't let him.

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

Has anyone heard of Brethren on Tiffany Records? my beatdigging, owner-of-a-super-huge-collection friend just told me he finally found the Brethren Break. i guess it's funky country that was sampled by Gangstar. he said i'd like it.

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 18:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

BW "Lookin' for a Love" is swate.

― Beta (abeta), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 19:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Lots of great stuff on here. I just got the Dirty Laundry comp yesterday, and the Swamp Dogg Total Destruction/Rat On! two-fer. Which is f*cking amzing. A happy man in the office today.

"Saturday Night in Oak Grove Louisiana" Tony Joe White.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Thursday, 30 June 2005 21:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

i just found this

it's kinda like a lost byrds album. great harmony singing, some nice fuzzy guitar and a bit of funk.

― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:11 (6 years ago) Permalink

haha! the name says it all - lock thread

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

i found that country funk lp for $1 last week, it's pretty great.

― omar little, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 17:18 (5 years ago) Permalink

One interesting story I heard about the BW Goes C&W album is that Womack wanted to call it Move Aside, Charley Pride, and Give Another Nigger a Try but United Artists wouldn't let him.

Barney Hoskyns, in Say it One Time for the Broken Hearted, says BW wanted to call the record Black in the Saddle

― sonofstan, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 17:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

Black in the Saddle = Amazing!

― jaxon, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 18:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Deadly Nightshade, F&W, 1976 -- three-woman band; haven't played this yet, but the title apparently means "Funky & Western," so hopefully this will qualify....(They're folkies, but the Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman song is supposedly disco!)

― xhuxk, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

BW wanted to call the record Black in the Saddle

Interestingly, that's exactly what Cowboy Troy called his (not very good) second album, hmmm...

― xhuxk, Saturday, 21 June 2008 13:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

There's a short instrumental on the Muskrats first album called "Funky Country." It is, kinda.

― ian, Saturday, 21 June 2008 16:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

Deadly Nightshade aren't! From Buy That For A Dollar thread: mind-boggingly shitty so far; not all that funky or western -- and closer to show-tuney than folky, despite the discofied program music of the Mary Hartman theme (which may or may not be a cover); covering "Dancing in the Streets" is entirely pointless, maybe not worse than Bowie/ Jagger but definitely a lot worse than Van Halen's.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 21 June 2008 17:19 (4 years ago) Permalink

country funk LP

― Shakey Mo Collier, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

i never realized that Area Code 615's "Stone Fox Chase" was sampled by Bubba Sparxxx until right now. i don't have the album that one's on, but i do have the first one. i pulled it out again recently and it's pretty funky. here's Southern Comfort

― jaxon, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

hey Beck samples that Country Funk "Apart of Me"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

country funk record has several excellent tunes, too bad they didn't do anything else

― velko, Saturday, 21 June 2008 19:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

shakey, which beck song?

― jaxon, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 06:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

that photo of Bobby Womack is so incredible! I can't seem to track down a good copy of his "BW Goes C&W" album. I got to get that comp!
-- edd s hurt

I thought that was Cleavon Little in "Blazing Saddles"!

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 07:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

http://mysteryposter.blogspot.com/2008/11/swamp-salad.html

this has some super funky parts, also some excellent female vocals and FUZZ.

― wind and wtfering (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 24 November 2008 17:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

Nice!

I feel like I've heard Johnny Guitar before. Is it on a Tarantino film?

― caek, Monday, 24 November 2008 19:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

sequel cover even better than first one!

― henry s, Monday, 24 November 2008 20:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

Creedence Clearwater Revival

― adult turban contemporary (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 24 November 2008 20:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

― caek, Monday, 24 November 2008 22:48 (4 years ago) Permalink

Jerry Reed owns this...

and hel-lo dirty laundry album cover.

― my inbox so hot (will), Monday, 24 November 2008 22:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

I feel like I've heard Johnny Guitar before. Is it on a Tarantino film?

i've got no idea! google isn't much of a help, either. but i wouldn't be surprised.

― wind and wtfering (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 02:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

jim ford was super funky

― velko, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 03:09 (4 years ago) Permalink

There's a Jim Ford thread, but I still haven't heard him. Some say his own albums were too cute, others love 'em, but in his time (RIP, right?)was mainly known as a picker and writer, apparently (Heard a Fresh Air interview, which you could prob still access on or from their site, in which Nick Lowe talks about playing a session with Ford, how very good he was, and that Ford, Bobbie Gentry's ex, claimed to have written "Ode To Billy Joe," and Lowe, knowing Ford's and Gentry's other songs, was inclined to believe him). Don't know what version of "Johnny Guitar" is referred to here, but the original was theme of the 50s Westerd, directed by Nicholas Ray, though it's rich pulp, starring Joan Crawford in her late prime.Technicolor noir soap/horse opera, like if Douglas Sirk were to do a Western. (But that could be closer to country funk than Ray's flick, as Sirk's Tarnished Angels, based on Faulkner's Pylon, about wired, smoldering , rattle-in-the saddle Southern Gothic barnstorming pilots, kinda fits) I'd say Eddie Hinton, with yowling, raspy but sometimes sweet vocals and all kinds of Muscle Shoals instrumental talent, def incl his versatile own, displayed even or especially on demos collected for The Songwriting Sessions (first two vols are the essentials, 3. is more for Hinton junkies only, but 1. and 2. may collect you). Prob George Soule, but Edd Hurt could tell you more about him, and might try Dallas Frazier's The R&B Sessions (D.F. somewhut Hintonesque, but coming more from the country side, while barefoot Hinton heading back to it, dig his live intro bout walking way down the road to get a drink, and, I think, barefoot too, certainly sounds very plausible). Maybe Roky Erickson--"Cold Night For Alligators"? His voice is like Hinton's or Sir Doug's, but so much stronger, more like country-metal, like metal singers are supposed to sound (not that Doug didn't do country-funk-metal, like "Baby, It Just Don't Matter") Also, try Herbie Mann's Memphis Underground, especially the title track and "Chain of Fools," feat. Larry Coryell and Sonny Sharrock ,buzzing in the mud, surrounded by session cats and just enough of Herbie's flute. Also some/most of Link Wray's great mid-70s album, The Link Wray Rumble (on Epic, with notes by Pete Townshend), esp. his cover of Tony Joe's "Backwoods Preacher Man." Bill Withers' early 70s live album (forget the title, but think he only did one live)(see robertchristgau.com for good description of that and other Withers)

― dow, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 06:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

faster horses:

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 06:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

Can't stop listening to this:

― Turangalila, Saturday, 4 August 2012 19:12 (10 months ago) Permalink

<3 this thread

what are the best jim ford and joe south albums?

― the late great, Saturday, 4 August 2012 19:14 (10 months ago) Permalink

jim ford - harlan county and point of no return

― buzza, Saturday, 4 August 2012 19:45 (10 months ago) Permalink

yeah harlan county is the one i keep hearing about

― the late great, Saturday, 4 August 2012 19:47 (10 months ago) Permalink

reissued recently, right?

i only know "i'm gonna make her love me" but that's all time

― the late great, Saturday, 4 August 2012 19:49 (10 months ago) Permalink

Strongly recommend this comp http://lightintheattic.net/releases/729-country-funk-1969-1975

― Turangalila, Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:13 (10 months ago) Permalink

any joe south record with 'the games people play.'
harlan county by jim ford is great, but i am also partial to bigmouth USA (the unissued paramount album)

― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:45 (10 months ago) Permalink

the barefoot jerry/area code 615 thread makes a good companion to this one tbh, and so does the west coast post-psych ssw country-rock thread

― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:48 (10 months ago) Permalink

i think a lot of the unissued paramount and unissued capitol stuff appears on the point of no return record, but maybe different takes/mixes

― buzza, Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:03 (10 months ago) Permalink

this is a great record too --
http://skydogselysium.blogspot.com/2010/02/donnie-fritts-prone-to-lean-1974.html

― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:15 (10 months ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

Decades and decades of country rap

http://www.spin.com/articles/rap-country-uncomfortable-history-accidental-racist/

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:28 (1 month ago) Permalink

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