No show this weekend, 4/28

Sucks to say, but not only I am too busy to do a show this weekend, but the station is still off-limits until next week. Hopefully that first weekend in May it'll go down:

The Black Nasty, back cover to their 1972 LP, Talkin to the People (Stax Records)

Update

Last Saturday afternoon, a pipe burst in the Campus Center cafeteria, closing the building for the rest of that day. Now we are being told that the flood loosened asbestos in the basement, and WCCR is off-limits at least until April 30th. So there will be no funk until after, at the very soonest.

Big bummer.

Aborted playlist - 03/24/2018

Mighty Mighty (live) – Earth Wind & Fire

CD cover for The Eternal Dance, a Earth Wind & Fire compilation (1992, Columbia)

Sweet Sticky Thing – The Ohio Players

LP gatefold of Honey by The Ohio Players (1975, Mercury)

Footsteps in the Dark – The Isley Brothers
Power to the People – Curtis Mayfield
Chameleon – Unknown High School Band

LP Cover for Schoolhouse Funk (2000, Cali-Tex)

Loose Booty – Sly & The Family Stone
Black and Proud – 6th Infantry Brigade of the Nigerian Army
Freedom Flight – Shuggie Otis

LP Cover for Freedom Flight by Shuggie Otis (1971, Epic)

Tom Cat – Muddy Waters

Unfortunately, my laptop suffered a grave malfunction at the end of this song, and my show had to aborted about an hour into my slot. Bummer.

No Show April 14th

Sorry y'all -- I have several commitments next Saturday, April 14th that will keep me out of the studio. Sucks. But I am giving a talk at Camden Comic-Con so that will be fun (not on Black Panther, but there will be a panel on it).

Also SF great Samuel Delany will be giving a talk at the English Department conference that same day, so lots to do at RUC!

Playlist 04/07/2018

Blow Your Head – The JBs

LP Cover for Damn Right I Am Somebody by Fred Wesley & the JBs (1974, People)

I Don’t Believe You Wanna Get Up And Dance (Oops) – The GAP Band
Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow – Funkadelic
(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below We’re All Going to Go – Curtis Mayfield
Get Down on It – Kool & The Gang

LP Cover for Something Special by Kool & The Gang (1981, De-Lite)

Willie Pass the Water – Ripple
Gimme a Pigfoot & A Bottle of Beer – Bessie Smith

Record Label for "Gimme a Pigfoot" by Bessie Smith (1934, Parlophone)

The Bad One – Kent Meade & The Remington Sunshine
Blow Your Whistle –The Soul Searchers
I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I’ll Get It Myself) – James Brown

Hunk O’ Funk – Brother Jack McDuff

Jack McDuff, jazz organist extraordinaire

Volunteered Slavery– [Rahsaan] Roland Kirk
Fairchild – Willie West

45 Label for "Fairchild" by Willie West (1970, Josie)

Full Side Funk — The Meters, side 1

LP Cover for The Meters (1969, Josie)

Cissy Strut
Here Comes the Meter Man
Cardova
Live Wire
Art
Sophisticated Cissy

Funk It Down – Caesar Frazier
Promised Heights – Cymande

LP Cover for Promised Heights by Cymande (1974, Janus)

The Funky Buzzard – James Bell & The Turner Brothers

Get Down People – The Fabulous Counts
History Lesson/The World – Gil Scott-Heron

LP Cover for Moving Target by Gil Scott-Heron (1982, Arista)

James Baldwin speech at the Cambridge Union Society, 1965

James Baldwin at work

Time – The Last Poets
Whitey on the Moon – Gil Scott-Heron

Nobody But You Babe – Clarence Reid
Smoke – The Ohio Players

LP Cover for Fire by The Ohio Players (1974, Mercury)

Hey Sallie Mae Get Off My Feet – Lee Fields & The Soul Providers
So Nice You Name Him Twice – Bootsy Collins
Get Down With the Get Down – Melvin Sparks

LP Cover for Melvin Spark '75 (1975, Westbound)

Memory Band – Rotary Connection
‘Tis Your Kind of Music – Graham Central Station

Full Side Funk — Kool & The Gang, side 2

LP Cover for Kool & The Gang (1970, Del-Lite)

Give It Up
Since I Lost My Baby
Kool’s Back Again
The Gang’s Back Again
Raw Hamburger
Let the Music Take Your Mind (unlisted track)

Drum Song – Earth Wind & Fire
Panama – Mandrill

Cramp Your Style – All the People (feat. Robert Moore)

45 Label for "Cramp Your Style" by All the People (feat. Robert Moore) (1972, Blue Candle)