Country Funk?

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.

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

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

http://www.o-dub.com/images/countryfunk.jpg

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

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

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

Black in the Saddle = Amazing!

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!)

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...

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

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.

country funk LP

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

hey Beck samples that Country Funk "Apart of Me"

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

shakey, which beck song?

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"!

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

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

Nice!

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

sequel cover even better than first one!

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i46/richbob/MOREDC.jpg

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Jerry Reed owns this...

and hel-lo dirty laundry album cover.

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.

jim ford was super funky

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)

faster horses:

Can't stop listening to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORfoK5Ap0FA

<3 this thread

what are the best jim ford and joe south albums?

jim ford - harlan county and point of no return

yeah harlan county is the one i keep hearing about

reissued recently, right?

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Decades and decades of country rap

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

i'm gonna go ahead and leave this here since i didn't know where else to put it (other than the thread entitled "mixes you make while drunk"). some late night swampy country bizness i put together last night, all 45s.

https://soundcloud.com/ianhetzner/made-to-roam

(is there a way to embed soundcloud round here?)

1. tommy hubbard - take a look at my love
2. gene wyatt & dawn glass - go together
3. jim ford - big mouth, usa
4. jamey ryan - holy cow
5. pat lundy - only mama that'll walk the line
6. ola louise - blues stay away from me
7. gosdin bros. - there must be a someone (i can turn to)
8. werly fairburn - that's just how bad it is
9. bruce channel - the web
10. larry collins - outcast
11. jewell ausbon - family reunion
12. rob galbraith - maggie mcghee, the preacher's daughter
13. j. david sloan - one toke over the line
14. johnny roberts - i was made to roam
15. shuggy ray smith - pappa & santa claus

also, i would love to hear an entire mix of "harper valley p.t.a." / "ode to billie joe" rip offs. i only put one in here but there must be dozens. i mean, shit, jeannie c. riley and bobbie gentry made a handful of 'em themselves.

That's awesome moe! I was thinking of reviving this thread this week to share my spotify playlist but I wanted to curate it a little bit more... anyhow here's how it goes so far... there's a bit of swamp rock and blues thrown in for good measure so it's not strictly country funk but at least a fourth of them qualify as such:

http://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/1A5LQOLAUa3TK6ChYLGeRw

also, i would love to hear an entire mix of "harper valley p.t.a." / "ode to billie joe" rip offs.

There's a comp called Country Soul Sisters on Soul Jazz that has a few of these. Pretty cool overall.

There's two, actually. Soul Jazz put out another not long ago.