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 and environs, 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.
About Me
- Name: Dan Phillips
- Location: Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
I currently host a weekly show, "Funkify Your Life", on KRVS 88.7 FM in Lafayette which includes music covered on HOTG and more. You can listen-in live Thursdays at 1:00 PM or to the rebroadcast Fridays at 9:00 PM, or stream shows on demand and see playlists at the station website under the Programs tab. I am a former resident of Memphis, TN, where I did a weekly radio show called "New Orleans: Under the Influence" from 1988 to 2004 on WEVL 89.9 FM. I've been collecting and researching this kind of music (& others) even longer.
HOTG Heads Up
Individual audio files are accessible for a limited time after posting. Link to access audio will be on the song title. No link? Audio's outa here.When you hit a song link, a player streams it in a separate window. For other listening options, right click on the player when it comes up.
Note: Audio files on this blog are not high resolution (usually 128k) and are posted for reference purposes only. Please do not link directly to them. Use caution if booty shaking while operating vehicles or heavy machinery. Whenever possible, please buy music by these artists!!!
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ARTISTS & LABELS (or reps thereof): On da blog, my focus is mainly hard to find, out of print or otherwise obscure New Orelans-related music on vinyl records from the 20th Century.. If you want to send along recent funky music to be considered for play on my weekly KRVS radio show, please email me for format requirements, etc.
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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 Tenoo." - 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, post-Katrina.
"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, the late drummer for Little Feat.
"National Funk Congress Deadlocked On Get Up/Get Down Issue" -The Onion
"Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life" -ditto dat
Previous Posts
- That New Orleans Touch
- RIGHT NOW, IT'S CARNIVAL TIME
- TOUSSAINT FAREWELL: GONE TOO SOON
- The Fairchild Enigma Revisited
- CARNIVAL SEASONING 2015
- . . . .Looking back and foward. . . .
- FUNKIFY YOUR LIFE #12 - 10/23/2014
- FUNKIFY YOUR LIFE #11 - 10/16/2014
- FUNKIFY YOUR LIFE #10 - 10/9/2014
- FUNKIFY YOUR LIFE - SHOW #9 - PLAYLIST
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funky miracles & revelations
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---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
Classic Ambiance
diddy wah
Ear Fuzz
45blog
FuFu Stew
Funk It (live audio & video)
funky 16 corners (the blog)
Funky Czech-In
Georgia Soul
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 Olreans Music Tours Blog
New Orleans Record Raid
1001 Songs
Shreveport Songs
Skydog's Elysium (Southern Rock)
So Many Records, So Little Time
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---
THE COSIMO CODE
HUEY 'PIAN0' SMITH AND THE ROCKING PNEUMONIA BLUES
ERNIE K-DOE (THE BOOK!!!!)
HAROLD BATTISTE, JR, UNFINISHED BLUES
OffBeat
MY SPILT MILK: The Cream of N.O.
Joe Zawinul's New Orleans Connection
AllMusic
BLUESREVIEWS (from Italy)
James Booker Petition
Classic Soul Music
Secrets of Cosimo's Studio
DC Soul Recordings
Dust & Grooves
Duvigneaud Discograpies
Everything On the One
FoodMusicJustice
Fog City Records
funk45
Funk Files
funky 16 corners
Benny Grunch (Yat Nostalgia)
Guitar Chord Heaven
The Gumbo Pages
humid city
Jazzman
Jerry Jazz Musician
KnowLA Encyclopedia
NevilleTracks
New Orleans Ladder
New Orleans Slate
NEW ORLEANS: WHAT CAN'T BE LOST
NolaFunk NYC
New Orleans Music Tours
N.O. Website Directory
Online Funk Finder
Pet De Kat Krewe
The R&B Indies
Rockie Charles Wiki
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
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KRVS Lafayette
WWOZ New Orleans
WTUL New Orleans
New Orleans Radio Network
WFMU New York
WEVL Memphis
SUPER SUNDAY 2013 - MG Indians Parade Photos
Tubalr (cool jukebox for YouTube aduio/video)
New Orleans All The Way Live 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
Meters bio
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
The Lookout Inn
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