BGP (Beat Goes Public) - Southern Funkin': Louisiana Soul 1967-1979
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Article name: Southern Funkin': Louisiana Soul 1967-1979Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: Bgp Number of tracks: 33
Tracklist LP - 1
1. Leroy Soileau - Wish You Were Here 2. Randle, Chester's Soul Senders - I Got a Groove 3. African Music Machine - Black Water Gold 4. Rockin' Tabby Thomas - One Day 5. Ernest "Tabby" Thomas - Soul Time 6. Landry, Dennis - Soul Brother's Testify Pt.1 7. Rockin' Sidney - Bury the Hatchet 8. Freddie Love - Crazy Girl Pt.1 9. Camille "Lil" Bob - Stop 10. Dennis Landry - Miss Hard to Get 11. Clifton White - Fix It 12. Bill Parker - I'm Gonna Put My Foot Down 13. Little Johnny Truitt - No Sad Times 14. Dennis Landry - Concentration 15. Dynamic Adam - Be a Man 16. Katie Webster - Hell or High Water 17. Freddie Love - Everybody's Doin' It 18. Donnie Jacobs - Proud Man 19. Abraham And The Casanovas - Soul Power 20. Rockin' Sidney - Put It On 21. Eddy "G" Giles - Soul Feeling Pt.1 22. Eddy "G" Giles - Soul Feeling Pt.2Tracklist - 2
Webster, Katie - Hell or high water JJ Caillier / Francis, Dalton & The Flaming Arrows - I got a groove Love, Freddie & The Notables - Crazy girl [Part 1] Jacobs, Donnie - Proud man "Count" Rockin' Sidney & Dukes, The - Put it on Thomas, Ernest - Soul time White, Clifton & His Royal Knights - Fix it Parker, Bill - Gonna put my foot down "Count" Rockin' Sidney - Bury the hatchet Soileau, Leroy - Wish you were here Giles, Eddy "G" - Soul feeling [Part 2]Description
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None of these 22 Louisiana funk/soul obscurities (none of which postdate 1975) were on big labels. And almost none of the performers have any name recognition value among general listeners, with the possible exception of "Count" Rockin' Sidney (better known as the zydeco artist of "My Toot Toot" fame) and Katie Webster. That doesn't mean that such material isn't of possible interest, of course. But the questions that arise are: is it good, and does it have a distinct regional identity? Those are hard to answer with authority. This soul-bleeding-into-funk crossover is solid, but nothing to make the Meters sweat, being more derivative of national trends (particularly James Brown) than innovative of their own paths; some passing traces of Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Jean Knight (of "Mr. Big Stuff" fame), and other major soulsters of the time can also be whiffed from time to time. There's some Louisiana flavor to some of the vocal drawl and idiosyncratically loping rhythms, but the material is only average, and the Cajun influence is rather less than you might expect from reading the quite thoroughly researched liner notes. Plus, while the liner notes make pains to note this was culled from outside of the city of New Orleans (which had its own strong soul-funk scene going on), some of it does sound a little like local artists you might have seen enlisted as warm-up acts for the Meters. It's primarily for listeners who listen to funk as a main part of their diet, though there are some above-average cuts with less slick production than many of their big city counterparts. Take a listen, for example, to Dennis Landry's "Miss Hard to Get," with its hustling beat and wah-wah guitars, or Leroy Soileau's "Wish You Were Here," which sounds a little like a swamp pop Bill Withers (though the track here unfortunately suffers from some varispeed, slowing down briefly as though the battery's running down). ~ Richie Unterberger
Richie Unterberger
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