Betty Davis — Nasty Gal
This is the last of Betty Davis’s three original albums, released in 1975, and the last of the three that I’ve just acquired. Again . . . this is revelatory funk. Why has this...
Category: Funk
Betty Davis — They Say I’m Different
Back in November, I raved about our new discovery of Betty Davis, the somehow utterly neglected and nearly forgotten queen of funk. Since then, we’ve picked up two more of her albums, giving us...
The Creeps — Now Dig This!
A rare case where I’m going to take a pair of records out of chronological order because this is the one that first caught my eye and turned me on to the wonderful oddness...
George Clinton — R&B Skeletons in the Closet
People, I am here to admit that, in 1986, I did not have the funk. I mean, I remembered ‘70s funk fairly fondly — there wasn’t anybody who wasn’t at least a little familiar...
James Brown — Say It Live and Loud
I never had any idea this record existed until two weeks ago when I found it at Forever Changes. It was a beautiful evening, the weather so cooperative that on the first of May...
Black Merda — The Psych Funk of Black Merda
I ran across this at Forever Changes, Phoenixville’s weekly pop-up record store, where I have taken advantage of an eclecticism wildly out of proportion to what you would expect from a pop-up to venture...
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