Funk 45s and Other Rare Grooves Format:CD novelist and essayist Jonathan Lethem

novelist and essayist Jonathan Lethem called the entirety of the Bandit Records tale “Haunting… haunted… Like a little novel

sweet relief was being back among true professionals

Frank Penn’s GBI studio and label cranked out a dozen LPs and twice as many singles

near puritanical public she played to anyway

The transient young people who’d invaded the Bay Area to cash in on the media’s cheap drugs/free love promises had departed for points east

Funk 45s and Other Rare Grooves Format:CD novelist and essayist Jonathan LethemSo what is funk? Its sometimes difficult to know. In the 1950s, the piano style of both Ray Charles and Horace Silver were described as funk, and the word itself has long associations with black music, going back even further into history. Clearly the success of James Brown at the tail end of the 1960ssay from Cold Sweat onwardsestablished the funk era, but the Godfather of super heavy funk had already set out his stall with Papas Got A Brand New Bag