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What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves [1967-1977]  Hear it Now

RS: 4of 5 Stars

2006

What this four-disc box o' bump is not: crate-digger academia. What it is: nonstop late-Sixties-and-Seventies party time from the deep recesses of these major-label catalogs. Big names on these dusty nuggets include the early, cosmic-jazz Earth, Wind and Fire, Bootsy Collins (in his pre-Parliament band the Houseguests) and Sly Stone (making electro-voodoo under the name 6ix). Getting rare spotlight time: the rotund Curtis Mayfield protegŽ Baby Huey, belting the protest-soul gem "Hard Times"; the oft-sampled funk group Rasputin's Stash; and Johnny Tolbert and De Thangs, who once opened for Otis Redding at the Fillmore and make weird, explicit grind here in "Take It Off -- Part II."

DAVID FRICKE

(Posted: Nov 16, 2006)

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