Can't ______ ___ _______

Can't Strain My Brain - Sly and the Family Stone, Small Talk (1974)


Can't Find the Judge - Gary Wright, The Dream Weaver (1975)

I Can't Stand the Rain - Eruption, Eruption (1978)

Aging Well

Ramsey Lewis of jazz groove lore.

Watch him swing across South America:
One, Two, Three - Ramsey Lewis, Goin' Latin (1966)


Fourteen years later watch him throw smooth jazz for a funky ride:
Tondelayo - Ramsey Lewis, Routes (1980)


I love musicians like this that I can rely on, and particularly those that I can rely on over the years (say between '65 and '83). I've posted these tracks not because I think they are his best. My personal Ramsey is the epic funk fusion of Sun Goddess and Funky Serenity. Despite that, I've thoroughly dug most all else that I've scooped of his. And these are just two supporting arguments in my five paragraph essay on getting down with RL.

Acid or Base?

Could this be the kind of place where such solid nothing-but-funk emulsions as this one were created?

Phil Hurtt - Ph Factor Boogie (1979)


Somehow everything in this smooth jam comes together - the voices ride right on top of the bassline to leave no one confused about how to walk across the room (step, dip

step, dip).

I suppose this sort of funk has to be a base. A face melting drain-o. A rotten milk. A mmonia.

Different Faces, One Beat

This is what the Tom Tom Club means when they shout “Bohannon”.

He has many faces and always always makes you move. So listen to
Listen to the Children Play - Hamilton Bohannon, Summertime Groove (1978).