Wheedle's Groove - Kearney Barton (2009) Light In The Attic - Rare Soul/Funk/Gospel/Jazz (FLAC 239MB)

Imagine Early Kool & The Gang jamming with the MG,s & Tower Of Power.....This is advanced funk making a mockery of its age, years ahead of its time and would break today if exposed, Such a cool album!....Seattle Funk & Soul in superbly classic form, polished and delivered on a soulful plate!!  Featuring a roster of first wave Seattle scene figures and engineered by the the legendary Kearney Barton recording engineer with over 50 years in the business in North West America! All of these cuts were recorded in 2008 at Audio Recording, where it all went down in the first place, (thats the place on the front cover) as chronicled on yesterdays excellent "Wheedle's Groove" compilation. This set features many of the players from the mid 1960s through early 1970s Emerald City ( Seattle) music scene, working as an all star band on funky originals and covers! Presumably doubling up as the house band. It's incredible stuff, from the Hammond B3 & Moog funk instrumental "Babyback", to a gospel funk take on "Jesus Christ Pose" featuring Pastor Pat Wright (AKA Northern Soul legend Patrinell Staten) and the Total Experience Gospel Choir, to the gritty soul of "HOE" featuring Ural Thomas on vocals and backing by the Muscle Shoals Horns no less, a spacey keyboard workout on Marc Moulin's "Humpty Dumpty" thats so infectious and much more. Producer Dynomite D does a wonderful job of putting the pieces together, and the players include members of Black On White Affair, Cookin' Bag, Cold Bold and Together, with Overton Berry on piano, keyboard maestros Ron Buford and Greg Davison, drummers Robbie Hill and John Lee Rodde, vocalists Ural Thomas and Broham (Larry Hammond, Leonard Hammond & Curtis Hammond Jr), guitarists Johnny Horn, Herman Brown and Coleman Brown, bass player Bob Lovelace and others. This like the sextones yesterday is a breath of fresh air to my ears anyway!....Dont cha just love music ?

AMM 

                                                                  

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