- Record Label: Light in the Attic Records
- Release Date: Jul 24, 2012
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Jul 27, 2012Country Funk: 1969-1975 illuminates a brief but fruitful period where genre lines blurred, and both genres benefitted mightily.
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Jul 27, 2012Some of the names here will already be known by fans, including White, Charles, Gentry, Dale Hawkins, Link Wray and Larry Jon Wilson; while others, such as Dennis The Fox, Gritz, Cherokee, Jim Ford and John Randolph Marr, may only be familiar to collectors. It's all great, though.
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Jul 27, 2012The sultry singer [Bobbie Gentry], who had a hit with "Ode to Billie Joe," is part of this essential new Light in the Attic compilation that explores a fringe strain of country music.
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Jul 27, 2012Country Funk re-creates this shift smartly, compiling songs by white artists playing with black sounds and black artists playing with white sounds, all without drawing neat parallels between these musical traditions.
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Aug 3, 2012It's often fascinating, and the songs nearly all have an immediate thump that's hard to ignore. But if the overall effect of the compilation is a strong one, there are some holes.
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Aug 23, 2012A high-steppin', side-steppin' life outside you ain't never seen.
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The WireAug 2, 2012This compilation gives voice to many lesser known artists who sang of the elation and estrangement of moving from the dirt tracks to the streets. [Aug 2012, p.44]
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UncutAug 2, 2012Country Funk unearths further lesser-known practitioners of this mythical genre. [Sep 2012, p.101]