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mickey & the soul generation - iron leg - the complete edition - cali tex - vinyl

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Genre: Funk / Soul

1. Iron Leg
2. Football
3. Up The Stairs And Around The Bend
4. Give Everybody Some
5. Joint Session
6. The Whatzit
7. Get Down Brother
8. Mystery Girl
9. Message From A Black Man
10. Chocolate
11. How Good Is Good
12. We Got To Make A Change
13. Soulful Sickness
14. U.F.O
15. Hey, Brother Man Carter
16. Southern Fried Funk (1st Movement)
17. Southern Fried Funk (2nd Movement)
18. Hey, Brother Man (Pams Demo)
19. U.F.O (Pams Demo)
20. Listen (To The Cry Of The People)
21. The Get Down (Live)
22. Working On Your Love (Live)
23. Help (I Need Your Love (Live)
24. Why You Wanna Leave Me (Live)
25. Life's A Mystery (Live)
26. Hey, Brother Man (Live)

Reissue of 2003 release as triplepack with updated liner notes, tons of newly discovered photos, and a previously unreleased track !

Erupting at the same time, but at a different studio, was the mixed instrumental combo Mickey & the Soul Generation. Best known for their 1969 paper hit "Iron Leg," the group came to semi-national attention following Nipsey Russell's performance of the Iron Leg dance on Johnny Carson. Though they shared a label with Ben E. King, they lacked access to the same promotion and marketing resources. A tour with Sam & Dave and opening slots for James Brown, Kool & the Gang, and The Supremes found them performing for thousands nightly, but still sleeping on floors. By the mid-'70s the group had fractured, with members joining the army, bottling Coke, and starting families. Their run would end in 1977 with two members turning in a passing Average White Band impression called "Southern Fired Funk" before their handful of 45s fell completely out of vogue and made their journey to thrift shops and cut-out distributors.

At the dawn of the century, Josh Davis (AKA DJ Shadow) tracked Mickey and his Soul Generation down for the purpose of reissuing their recordings on his upstart Cali-Tex label. "Mickey and the Soul Generation are my favorite funk band," Davis wrote in 2002. "They were strong contenders for the title from my very first listen back in '92. 'Iron Leg' being the standout track on an otherwise flaccid jazz-funk compilation of the day. Already a favorite rare-groove selection in the ever-accepting UK club scene, I too found myself buoying my bedroom DJ sets with snatches of the irresistible Soul Generation Sound. It became an instant priority of mine to locate an original." That 2003 reissue was met with critical praise, and ultimately turned a new generation of music lovers onto rare funk and soul.