I’ll never forget the feeling I had as a 6-year-old kid listening to this song. The drum fill on the intro of this tune scared the daylights out of me. The James Brown groove, the horn blasts, the rhythm guitar playing, and at the end, the chanting and screaming just blew my little mind. I…
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Funk Power! This was the B side to a song called “Ready Made Family” by Creative Funk. From what I’ve read, most of the band were from Jamaica, Queens, except lead singer Diane Jenkins, who was grew up in Brooklyn. The band consisted of bassist Gary Deberry, vocalists Diane Jenkins and Veedett Williams, guitarist Walter Etheridge,…
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Every morning when I pick up my kids from my ex-wife at 7:15AM, my kids get in the car, we say hello to each other and are on our way to school. We don’t get very far if there is no music coming from the speakers. My son or daughter will speak up and demand…
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