{"id":16959,"date":"2012-10-04T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T04:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=16959"},"modified":"2012-10-03T19:22:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T00:22:35","slug":"keepin-the-funk-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2012\/10\/04\/keepin-the-funk-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Keepin’ the funk alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soul Fire Revue host talks about his set lists so far this year<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Jeff Listerman\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

During my last show I played a set of killer 2004 re-mixes of the sessions that Quincy Jones did with Bill Cosby in 1969, and when the\u00a0\u201cPelando\u201d remix by Los Amigos Invisibles hit a heavy drum break I mixed in a coupla intense Afro-Cuban drum songs from another CD that I just started listening to —\u00a8Drums of Cuba Afro-Cuban Music From the Roots\u00a8 by Grupo Oba-Il\u00fa on the Soul Jazz label.\u00a0 Now, I’ve heard all kinds of drum and percussion albums, from jazz to different African and Jamaican stuff, but these<\/em> are some intense, complex and hypnotic rhythms. All at once, complex, minimalist and repetitive. They almost sometimes remind me of Terry Riley or early Kraftwerk. One of the drums has a beautiful high-ringing tone that reminds of an old school synth or electric piano. Anyway, they get into some intense and funky cross-rhythms and so I mixed in a couple tracks before shifting back to a couple more Quincy Jones-Bill Cosby remixes.<\/p>\n

Which all is to say that I try to stretch-out and play more than just the classic American soul and funk genre\u2026.. HOWEVER, that genre is the heart of the show, and to that end, I\u2019m always looking and listening for new stuff that is a cut above.<\/p>\n

I have been an OBSESSIVE music collector and have amassed somewhere around 5,000 CDs in all genres \u2013 from experimental electronica and noise rock to classic country and hillbilly bop to jazz to world music to, of course funk and soul.\u00a0 Anyway, after \u00a0years of going back and forth with myself, I’ve started selling off quite a few.\u00a0 If I can get \u2018er down to 1,000 it’d be good — most just sit packed in boxes anyway.\u00a0 So, in selling over a hundred per week at current pace, I\u2019m takin\u2019 a chunk of the return in store credit so I can keep feedin\u2019 the beast and keep bringin\u2019 new stuff onto the Revue (not to mention excavating old gems that I forgot about, buried in boxes for years.)<\/p>\n

This was the way I got a few new re-issues of some killer Ann Peebles albums at the Love Garden last week\u2026 re-issued recently on Fat Possum label. Ann’s so good, last night I played her classic \u201cCome to Mama\u201d and a deeper track that I didn’t have on my big compilation of her music, \u201cStand by Woman\u201d.\u00a0 Also with my copious credit, I picked up a copy of Betty Davis’ \u201cIs it Love or Desire\u201d, cut in ’76 and never released.\u00a0 Def not the level of her stellar self-titled debut, or \u00a8They Say I’m Different\u00a8 albums, but some interesting stuff here from the former Mrs. Miles David, perhaps the wildest woman in funk music. Last show I played the title track and somethin\u2019 crazy called \u201cBottom of the Barrell\u201d.\u00a0 In that song she shouts and growls the hilarious line, \u201cTake of that Disco and put on some good music!! \u2026We\u2019re tired of listening to that rinky-dinky stuff!!\u201d<\/p>\n

So, these were just a couple of discs I got last week that I played last night and I\u2019ll be continuing to regularly funnel new funk into my collection and onto the airwaves.\u00a0Otherwise, I’ve been getting a lot of good feedback and requests on shift, but for y’all that ain\u00b4t tuned in yet here’s a partial list of some faves that you\u00b4ll hear over the weeks and months on The Soul Fire Revue:<\/p>\n

Sly and the Family Stone, D\u2019Angelo, Angie Stone, Bobby Womack, the funky Meters, New Orleans piano wizard James Booker, Grace Jones, Howlin\u2019 Wolf, Isley Bros., Funkadelic, funky Lee Dorsey, Marvin Gaye, electric sax-man Eddie Harris, Bill Withers, Ike and Tina, the Stones, Nu-Yorican Soul revolutionaries Willie Colon and Hector Lavoe, the wicked Wilson Pickett, the superhuman force-of-nature they call Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the Staple Singers, etc\u2026..\u00a0 you get the picture\u2026.<\/p>\n

I\u00b4ll just say that while all of these artists are among my favorites, I\u2019m always lookin\u2019 and listenin\u2019for the most funky, sexy, and soulful of their catalog to deliver on the air.<\/p>\n

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Soul Fire Revue airs every Saturday from 8-10 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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