Geater Davis - Sweet Woman's Love

Here's some obscure deep-soul, funky and bluesy. Released in 1971 for House of Orange.

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Sam Taylor Jr - The Tunnels Of My Mind

Soulful, bluesy and groovy. Realeased on GRT records in 1969. You can find some info on Sam and preview tracks from this album over at In Dangerous Rhythm.



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Mel Brown - Big Foot Country Girl

Another Mel Brown record for your asses. This one from 1973, might be his last, I don't know. This, like all other Mel B records I own, was released on Impulse.

Need Love


Stinging Bea


Musically, it's what you usually get from a Mel Brown album, meaning a bluesy, funky and soulful mix, with a very down-home kind of sound.

1. Need Love
2. Home Folks
3. Red Cross Store
4. Little Girl, Don't You Know
5. Big Foot Country Girl
6. Goin' Down Slow
7. Stinging Bea

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Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia - Live At Keystone

Live double-LP released on Fantasy in 1973. If The Other Merl Saunders record I posted was mainly a funk record, this one is more versatile, mixing southern soul songs (Like a Road), some kind of free organ jazz (Space), blues, Bob Dylan and Jimmy Cliff covers and, yes, some funk.

Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers


Space


It's No Use


The group consists of Merl Saunders on keyboards, Jerry Garcia on guitar, Bill Vitt on drums and John Kahn on bass, plus David Grisman makes an appearence on mandolin.

1. Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers
2. Positively 4th Street
3. The Harder They Come
4. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
5. Space
6. It's No Use
7. That's All Right Mama
8. My Funny Valentine
9. Someday Baby
10. Like a Road

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Mel Brown - Mel Brown's Fifth

Once again, Mel Brown on Impulse, released in 1971. This one is a whole lot grittier than the other Mel Brown record I posted and it's a whole lot better too, if you ask me. The other players are Jimmy Davis on organ and keyboard bass, Jeff Osborne on drums, Carle Vickers on trumpet, Jake Riley on trombone, Lorenzo Carnegie on alto sax, Onion Miller on tenor sax, Tobie Butler on baritone sax, Clifford Coulter plays electric piano on one tune and Mel's father, John H Brown, contributes a vocal. Other than playing his guitar Mel also plays electric piano, sings and plays bass. The 10 minute jam, Luv Potion is dope.

1. Time For A Change
2. Good Stuff
3. Seven Forty-Seven (Airport Blues)
4. Luv Potion
5. Drifting Blues
6. Cheap At Half The Price
7. Home Made
8. Gimme A Little Slack

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Hank Crawford - It's A Funky Thing To Do

Saxophonist Hank Crawford released this album on Cotillion in 1971. It is funky/bluesy jazz and features the jazz-funk regulars as sidemen. Eric Gale, Cornell Dupree, Richard Tee, Ron Carter, Chuck Rainey and Bernard Purdie plus Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis on one of the tunes.

1. It's A Funky Thing To Do
2. If Ever I Should Leave You
3. Hills Of Love
4. Sophisticated Soul
5. You're The One
6. Parker's Mood
7. Kingsize Man

http://rapidshare.com/files/138737703/Hank_Crawford_-_It_s_A_Funky_Thing_To_Do.rar.html

Mel Brown - Blues For We

Released on Impulse in 1969, this LP consists mostly of bluesy guitar playing on top of some soulful grooves. Mel also gives a vocal performance on Twist & Shout. Produced by Bob Thiele and arranged by Artie Butler. No info on the other players.

1. Twist & Shout
2. Blues For We
3. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
4. Son Of A Preacher Man
5. Set Me Free
6. Freaky Zeke
7. Indian Giver
8. Stranger On The Shore

(The back cover has got the playing order wrong on tracks 6 and 7)

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