James Brown issued two psych-rock albums. Sho Is Funky Down Here is the one he released under his own name.

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Sho is Funky Down Here and The Grodeck Whipperjenny are a pair of albums that are the result of an unlikely but highly productive musical relationship between James Brown, a superstar at the creative and commercial peaks of his long career, and David Matthews, a then young arranger-musician whose limited professional experience had little or nothing to do with the funk and soul of his collaborator.

James Brown Goes Underground – a short film about these albums by Bennett Piscitelli.. (more…)

Egon, holding the Universoul’s funk killer “New Generation.” This and hundreds of other songs from all eras and all genres are up now in his Spotify playlist. Photo by Eilon Paz for Dust and Grooves.

Currently at 22 hours and counting, Egon has assembled a Spotify playlist. It will be updated regularly and should take the pressure off trying to figure out the best of the most obscure tracks in the billions of tracks now available at the streaming behemoth. At least in one music fan’s perspective.