Home of the Groove

Based on the premise that the true Home of the Groove, at least on the North American landmass, is the irreplaceable musical and cultural nexus, New Orleans, Louisiana, this audioblog features rare, hard to find, often forgotten, vintage New Orleans-related R&B and funk records 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 HOTG Internet Radio.

: 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.

"With funk, it's almost more what you don't play than what you do play. I like those long silences between riffs, I like the empty spaces. Those empty spaces, when you stop and let the groove wash all over you, make the difference between fake funk and real funk." -Art Neville in The Brothers Neville

"Thank the good Lord for the funk musicians." -Jon Cleary ("Pin Your Spin")

"Without New Orleans, there would be no America." -Keith Frazier, Rebirth Brass Band, 2005.

"....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

"I discovered New Orleans along the way, and that made a big difference - It loosened me up." - Richie Hayward

NEW ORLEANS IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS - SO WHY AREN'T YOU THERE? (watching Treme is no substitute)

NEW ORLEANS AND LOUSIANA MUSICAL BIRTHDAYS:
JANUARY: Johnny Adams, Tabby Thomas, Red Allen, Katie Webster, Slim Harpo, Allen Toussaint, Snooks Eaglin, Aaron Neville, Tuts Washington, Huey 'Piano' Smith, Jean Knight, Paul Gayten....
FEBRUARY: Harold Dejan, Earl King, Lonnie Johnson, Rockin' Dopsie, Sr, Phillip Walker, King Floyd, Michael Doucet, Joe Banashak, Irma Thomas, Warren Storm, Bobby Charles, Ernie K-Doe (look for his biography by Ben Sandmel, coming soon!), Fats Domino, Clarence Garlow, Roy Montrell, Walter Kimball....

---KEEP SUPPORTING---
FIX THE LEVEES ALREADY!!! GULF RESTORATION NETWORK
CARE - HAITI
NETWORK FOR GOOD
NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS CLINIC
LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
ROOTS OF MUSIC PROGRAM
TIPITINA'S FOUNDATION
See da Film, Sign Da Petition
SAVE FESS' HOUSE!
EDDIE BO MEMORIAL FUND
---music blogs o' plenty---
A Bassist's Favorite Drummers
AM, Then FM
Aquarium Drunkard
Axelgrease
The B Side
Benn loxo du taccu
Bill Dahl Blog
breath of life
diddy wah
Ear Fuzz
45blog
FuFu Stew
Funk It (live audio & video)
funky 16 corners (the blog)
Funky Czech-In
Greeville & Beyond
HeavySoulBrutha
In Dangerous Rhythm
It's Great Shakes
Jemsite Blog
Keith Spera's TP Blog
Lock It Down
monkeyfunk
New Orleans Music Blog
New Orleans Record Raid
1001 Songs
Skydog's Elysium (Southern Rock)
Soul Detective
Soul Psychadelicyde
soulsides
Soul y otros alimentos del alma
Spread The Good Word
Stepfather of Soul
The Singing Bones
Tuwa's Shanty and the Roots Canal
---resources---
OffBeat
AllMusic
HAROLD BATTISTE, JR, UNFINISHED BLUES
BLUESREVIEWS (from Italy)
James Booker Petition
Classic Soul Music
Secrets of Cosimo's Studio
Cosmino's Right Hand Man
DC Soul Recordings
Duvigneaud Discograpies
Everything On the One
FoodMusicJustice
Fog City Records
funk45
Funk Files
funky 16 corners
Benny Grunch (Yat Nostalgia)
The Gumbo Pages
humid city
Jazzman
Jerry Jazz Musician
KnowLA Encyclopedia
Neville Discography
New Orleans Ladder
NEW ORLEANS: WHAT CAN'T BE LOST
NolaFunk NYC
N.O. Website Directory
Online Funk Finder
Pet De Kat Krewe
The R&B Indies
Sax on the Web
Second Line (NO Drumming)
Sir Shambling's
Soul Club Jukebox
Soulful Kinda Music
Soul Generation
The Soul of the Net
Swamp Funk(an essay)
Ubiquity Records
Wang Dang Dula
---mixed media---
HOTG WEBCAST - LISTEN NOW!
WWOZ New Orleans(webcast)
WTUL New Orleans
WFMU (webcast)
WEVL Memphis(webcast)
KRVS Lafayette(webcast)
New Orleans All The Way Live TREME (HBO series)
New Orleans Voices Podcast
Ponderosa Stomp
P-Stomp #9 Photos
THE RED KELLY CHANNEL
OffBeat Magazine
Louisiana Music Factory
Threadhead Records
Mystery Street Records
Basin Street Records
Tuff City Records
Astral Project
Jon Cleary Radio
the Meters
Funky Meters
The Neville Brothers
Red Beans and Rice
Teddy Royal Website
subdudes podcasts
McBoozo's Drunken Poetry Jam
Oh My Goodness
Francis Pavy
Herman Mhire
THEIR LOVE OF MUSIC
33 1/3 Photography Blog
Debris

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