029667274111

Funk Inc

Funk Inc

£17.99
£17.99
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Format: LP

Cat No: BGPD1041

Format Details: Single Sleeve Vinyl Album

Release Date:  30 November 2009

Label:  BGP

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  029667274111

Genres:  R&B  Funk  

  • Description

    Producer Bob Porter discovered Funk Inc in March 1971.The Indianapolis band had sent him demo tape which had languished in a pile of others until he finally got around to working his way through the whole batch. The band??s tape grabbed him as soon as he heard the first notes and the rest, as they say, is history. A quintet, Funk Inc's constituent members were leader Bobby Watley on organ, Eugene Barr on tenor saxophone, Steve Weakley on guitar, Jimmy Munford on drums and Cecil Hunt on congas. Watley, the leader, worked originally as a drummer, with both Winston Walls and Lonnie Smith. He switched to organ in 1969 and was heavily influenced by Jack McDuff. Barr played his first professional gig with Little Milton and then went on to lead his own band prior to joining Funk Inc. Munford worked with artists of the calibre of Etta James, Jerry Butler and James Brown. Hunt had been with The Coasters as well as playing with local California bands. Weakley was one of the (then) new breed of guitarists whose debt owed as much to Jimi Hendrix as Kenny Burrell.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Kool Is Back
      • 2. Bowlegs

      Side 2

      • 1. Sister Janie
      • 2. The Thrill Is Gone
      • 3. The Whipper

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