Cameo : Rolling Stone

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The Best Of Cameo

Aahhh, Albums like this make you proud to be black. File Funk Essentials between James Brown's Star Time set and the spot saved for the Public Enemy or Run D.M.C. box (whichever comes first) in the section labeled Black Aesthetic Definitions. Essentials stars Cameo, Kool and the Gang, the Bar-Kays,...

1993 RS: 4of 5 Stars

1990

Biography

The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Larry Blackmon, the group Cameo is a confusingly complex net of personal and financial entanglements. By the early '70s the Juilliard-trained Blackmon became leader of the dozen or so musicians and in 1974 changed their name from the New York City Players to Cameo. Viewed as a minor-league Funkadelic (with whom Cameo shared a label and for who...

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