Eddie Bo & Friend
"Lover & A Friend" (Edwin Bocage)
Eddie Bo & Inez Cheatham, Seven B, 1968
No mo' Bo - This was the most popular post in HOTG history - so far. I'll have to tell Eddie.
posted by Dan Phillips @ 11:05 PM
Home of the Groove
This audioblog is based on the premise that the true Home of the Groove, at least on the North American landmass, is New Orleans, Louisiana. We cannot afford to lose it. I feature selected rare, hard to find vintage New Orleans-related R&B and funk tracks with commentary. Some general knowledge of N.O. music is helpful here, but not required to get your groove on. Hear the affiliated webcast at Home of the Groove Internet Radio.
About Me
- Name: Dan Phillips
- Location: Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
Former resident of Memphis, TN, where I did a volunteer weekly radio show called "New Orleans: Under the Influence" from 1988 to 2004 on WEVL 89.9 FM. I've been collecting this kind of music (& others) much longer.
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QUOTES OF NOTE:
"New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African musical practice in the United States, and, cliches aside, that practice really did travel up the Mississippi and did spread overland." - Ned Sublette, from Cuba And Its Music
"I heard a group called Huey Smith & the Clowns, out of New Orleans. Now this is where funk was really created! That's where funk originated.... I couldn't understand how to do it, so this drummer from Huey Smith's band [Hungry Williams] showed me how to play [it]." - Clayton Fillyau, drummer for Etta James and James Brown, on the origins of the 'James Brown Beat', in The Great Drummers Of R&B, Funk & Soul, interviewed by Jim Payne.
"A lot of those New Orleans drummers would come through, and I got a lot of stuff from those guys....Tenoo [Coleman] was...as funky as any of them..... I learned some of that funk by listening to Tennoo." - John 'Jabo'Starks, drummer for Bobby Bland and James Brown, to Jim Payne as above.
"At the risk of sounding egotistical, a lot of the broken up stuff that these guys are playing now stems from the stuff that I had started doing." - Earl Palmer, on his early days drumming with Dave Bartholomew's band, to Jim Payne, as above.
"Without New Orleans, there would be no America." -Keith Frazier, Rebirth Brass Band, 2005.
"Thank the good Lord for the funk musicians." -Jon Cleary ("Pin Your Spin")
"....don't be fooled. This city is deeply wounded. I'd say it's like an amputee with phantom memory." -David Freedman, WWOZ
"If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck, in an e-mail to Chris Rose at the Times-Picayune
"I'm not finished!" - Wardell Quezergue's final comment of the night after accepting the 2008 Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement In Music Award from Offbeat
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January 02, 2005
Eddie Bo & Inez Cheatham, Seven B, 1968
No mo' Bo - This was the most popular post in HOTG history - so far. I'll have to tell Eddie.
1 Comments:
home of the groove is absolutely right man!
loving the Eddie Bo And Inez Cheatham track, and will still be loving it by this time next year, and well beyond.
Thanks for the great tunes.
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