Inspired by such great compilation like Country Got Soul, Delta Swamp Rock and Country Funk!
Comin’ right up, a steaming gumbo of down home, honey drippin’ Voodoo-Soul and rough-fried funky Blues with a large side order of countrified brain salad and gritty Southern Rock. These compilations encompass the elation of gospel with the sexual thrust of the blues, country hoedown harmony with inner city grit. It is alternately playful and melancholic, slow jammin’ and booty shakin’. It is both studio slick and barroom raw. And while these all may seem unlikely combinations at first glance, upon close listen, it all makes sweet sense.
Follow the Love Rustler train through the landscape of blues and country with stops in Jackson, Mississippi. Memphis, Tennessee. New Orleans, Louisiana. Big Rock, Arkansas. Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Old Funk, Georgia. The legendary south of country preachers, forgotten jailhouses, rowdy juke joints and jaded dreams of salvation.
The tunes are from the glorious era between 1970 and 1975 with some years plus and few minus. We found the best tunes on albums you thought you knew and searched a lot of relatively unknown bands and releases for exceptional tunage. If sonically imperfect we had the tracks mastered and listened to the bunch endlessly to achieve the perfect flow.
The Love Rustler recommends: “Pour yourself a drink and keep on chooglin’!”
Volume 5/Sumpin' Funky comes as CD-R and features 24 tracks and about 79 minutes of music. It comes with a cover- and traycard in a normal jewelbox. The CD label is printed. Limited to 50 copies.
Keep On Chooglin' - Vol. 5 / Sumpin' Funky
01. Rob Galbraith – Billy Utah
02. JJ Grey & Mofro – Mississippi
03. Jeannie C. Riley – He Made A Woman Out Of Me
04. Duncan Pain – Ub Glub
05. Clarence Gatemouth Brown – Dixie Chicken
06. Dobie Gray – Mississippi Rolling Stone
07. Free Creek – Getting Back To Molly
08. Alex Taylor – From A Buick Six
09. Bobby Hatfield – Messin' In Muscle Shoals
10. Wet Willie - Ain't He A Mess
11. Bobby Lance – I Can't Be Turned Around
12. Freddie King – I Got The Same Old Blues
13. O.V. Wright – Ace Of Spades
14. Otis Clay – Too Many Hands
15. Delbert McClinton – Love Rustler
16. Little Richard – Greenwood MS
17. Travis Wammack – Shotgun Woman
18. Cash McCall – Blues 99
19. Clarence Carter – Put On Your Shoes And Walk
20. Rudy Ramos – I Was Amazed
21. Johnny Jenkins – Voodoo In You
22. Donnie Fritts – Sumpin' Funky Going On
23. Ry Cooder – Nitty Gritty Mississippi
24. Jesters – Funky Country