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- Record Label: Light in the Attic Records
- Release Date: Jul 24, 2012
- Summary: The 16-track collection of country funk from 1969-1975 includes songs from such artists as Bobby Charles, Bobby Darin, Mac Davis, Dennis the Fox, Bobbie Gentry, Dale Hawkins, and Larry Jon Wilson.
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- Record Label: Light in the Attic Records
- Genre(s): Country, Outlaw Country, Country-Pop, Traditional Country, Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan
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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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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, 2012Country Funk: 1969-1975 illuminates a brief but fruitful period where genre lines blurred, and both genres benefitted mightily.
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UncutAug 2, 2012Country Funk unearths further lesser-known practitioners of this mythical genre. [Sep 2012, p.101]
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Aug 23, 2012A high-steppin', side-steppin' life outside you ain't never seen.
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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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Jul 31, 2012Country Funk frontloads these generic examples, and leaves the rest of the compilation up to artists who managed to eke meaning out of the stylistic changes.
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