After seeing Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown when it was first released I sort of rediscovered '70's R&B funk - Jackie Brown is still up there on my list of favorite movies - Samuel L Jackson, DeNiro, Pam Grier - good cast.
I always liked da funk in the day - searing wah wah solos, heavy percussion, walking bass lines and great horn arrangements - and covers still pop up from time to time. Listen to the extended guitar riff in the Isley Brothers 'Who's That Lady' and it becomes obvious that Ernie Isley's mentor was Jimi Hendrix.
But then R&B and blues have always been high on my list. I was listening to Etta James,Charles Brown and early Chuck Berry when I was a kid when everyone else was grooving to Pat Boone and all the other watered down white bread remakes.
There's been covers done on da funk recently but the original stuff is still hard to beat for me anyway. Maybe you had to be there at the time...if you weren't, maybe you'll enjoy the originals.
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