Damn Right I Am Somebody

This is a blog designed purely for those with a deep and abiding love of funk, soul, jazz and blues musics, and while I will try to include academic information about the subjects at hand, the bottom line is how it feels, ya dig?

Dec 20, 2022

December 2022

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It makes sense that I abandoned this project in the Winter of 2016.   It was the end of one era and the beginning of another; the beginning ...

Willie Wright: “Lack Of Education”

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I truly don’t know where to begin in approaching this magnificent yet inscrutable work of art.   It is unconventional in every sense, from t...

Trees: "On The Shore"

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Most of what I’ve read about the band Trees is a bit dismissive, in the sense they’re often described as a sort of cut-rate Fairport Convent...

Gilberto Gil: "Cerebro Eletronico"

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Electric brains and melted minds.  “The feedback’s getting thicker/just some liquid mutant fuzz”…I had other folks in mind when I wrote thos...

Aktion: "Celebration"

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Hot hot Afro-Psych heat on Ben Okonkwo’s Clover Sound label.  Aktion started out as The Action 13, recording some highly sought-after 45’s i...

Michael Chapman: "Window"

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I’ve never been able to figure out why Michael Chapman didn’t get the shine and adulation enjoyed by some of his peers in the British folk-r...

Eko: "Kilimandjaro My Home"

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I don’t know much about Cameroonian keyboardist Eko Roosevelt Louis, but every record he made in the ‘70’s bumps like crazy.  This is my fav...
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dmay28
I am an avid funk/soul/jazz collector/musician living in Vancouver, WA, but hailing from such varying parts of the country as Omaha, NE, Grand Lake, CO, and Olympia, WA. I'm putting this music out into cyberspace because I feel it's better to share it than for me to sit by myself and appreciate the vast majority of its contents in solitude.
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