Click here for part oneShortly after I posted a few Bill Withers covers in honor of Still Bill, which premiered on Showtime yesterday, February 4th, crate digger extraordinaire Larry Webber suggested several more. Here are the four I like the best. The reggae interpretations are great, but I prefer the funkiest of the funk jams.
2024 update: all videos are no longer embeddable. :-(
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In the All Music Guide, Jason Ankeny describes Eddy Senay's Hot
Thang (1972/Sussex) as "a virtual primer in psychedelic funk."
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In the All Music Guide, Jason Ankeny describes Eddy Senay's Hot
Thang (1972/Sussex) as "a virtual primer in psychedelic funk."
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The AMG classifies vibraphonist Roy Ayers as "one of the prophets
of acid jazz," but that doesn't mean he couldn't funk it up, too (see al-
so his score for 1973 blaxploitation classic Coffy). This cover comes
from Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Red, Black and Green (1976/Mercury).
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Bill Graham favorites Cold Blood (1968-76), featuring front woman
Lydia Pense, hailed from the Bay Area. They re-formed in the '00s.
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Trombone player/arranger/musical director Fred Wesley proves
he could make it on his own outside the James Brown organization.
Wesley has also played with Parliament and Ike and Tina Turner.
More: Horace Andy - "Ain't No Sunshine" (and an alternate
version), Lyn Collins - "Ain't No Sunshine," Prophets of Soul -
"Ain't No Sunshine," Ken Boothe - "Ain't No Sunshine," Augus-
tus Pablo - "Ain't No Sunshine," and B.B. Seaton - "Lean on Me."
Endnote: Image from AllStarsPics, which notes
Withers' full name: William Harrison Withers, Jr.
of acid jazz," but that doesn't mean he couldn't funk it up, too (see al-
so his score for 1973 blaxploitation classic Coffy). This cover comes
from Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Red, Black and Green (1976/Mercury).
[video]
Bill Graham favorites Cold Blood (1968-76), featuring front woman
Lydia Pense, hailed from the Bay Area. They re-formed in the '00s.
[video]
Trombone player/arranger/musical director Fred Wesley proves
he could make it on his own outside the James Brown organization.
Wesley has also played with Parliament and Ike and Tina Turner.
More: Horace Andy - "Ain't No Sunshine" (and an alternate
version), Lyn Collins - "Ain't No Sunshine," Prophets of Soul -
"Ain't No Sunshine," Ken Boothe - "Ain't No Sunshine," Augus-
tus Pablo - "Ain't No Sunshine," and B.B. Seaton - "Lean on Me."
Endnote: Image from AllStarsPics, which notes
Withers' full name: William Harrison Withers, Jr.
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