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v/a - carolina funk - jazzman - vinyl

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Genre: Funk / Soul

1. Primitive - Creation Of Music
2. Gamith - Darkness
3. Innersouls - Just Take Your Time
4. Dynamite Singletary - Super Good
5. Mongoose - King Cobra
6. Soul Impossibles - Interpretation - Soul Power No 1
7. Carleen and The Groovers - Can We Rap
8. Sundia - Satnd Up and Be A Man (Part 1)
9. Shirlean Williams and The Tempo's Band - Ease It To Me
10. Frankie and The Damons - Bad Woman
11. Roy Roberts - You Ain't Miss Is (previously unreleased)
12. Communicators
13. The Soul Drifters - Funky Soul Brothers (Parts I
14. James Reese and The Progressions - Let's Go (It's Summertime)
15. Paul Burton - So Very Hard To Make It (Without You)
16. Wally Coco - Message To Society
17. Anthony Burns - Doing What You Need To Do
18. The Black Exotics - Theme Of Blackbyrds
19. Donnie Brown - Funky Mind
20. George Campbell - Good Time
21. JD's - Funky Party Time (previously unreleased)

After last year’s ‘Florida Funk’, Jazzman travelled north up the Atlantic coast to investigate the little-known yet incredibly prolific funk scene in the two rural states of North and South Carolina. Without any large urban centres, much of the musical output of North and South Carolina has been limited to small rural communities - most bands and their records remained localised and were never spread further than the state borders. Funk45 label boss Jazzman Gerald and North Carolina resident and obsessive record collector Jason Perlmutter have selected 21 rare and unreleased slices of heavy funk from the Carolinas to show how the gospel according to James Brown reached out into even the most remote areas of small-town USA. From driving percussive instrumentals by high-school college buddies, to heartfelt slabs of soul; from rediscovered tapes in the garages of retired musicians to funk 45s so raw that they were blessed by James Brown himself.

The album includes two previously unreleased tracks, taken from original studio tapes and acetates. Original stories direct from the musicians and artists are featured on the innersleev of the this gatefold album with in-depth liner notes, label scans and previously unpublished photographs.