All Blog Posts Tagged 'Funk' (9)

An Interview with funk/soul New Yorker Milo Z - the “melting pot” of Big Apple with Rock, Rap, Jazz, Blues & Funk

"I guess what I miss from the funk and soul music of yesterday is the really warm sounds and feeling it had. The music back in the day was played on real instruments by human beings not computers and machines."

Milo Z : The Sound of Razzamofunk

He calls the music “Razzamofunk”, a combination of Rock, Rap, Jazz, Blues & Funk. The sound is…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on March 4, 2020 at 11:30am — No Comments

Q&A with Tweed Feat. Gervis Myles: a band of the “soul-revival” movement with their own style of Memphis flavored music

"I can say this without prejudice that Blues music is essential to ones life. Weather they like it or not, weather a person actively listens or not, in some way it will influence them or impact them. We can say Blues music is a Black music born out of White oppression. One would not exist without the other."

Tweed Feat. Gervis Myles: Love Strong…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on August 31, 2019 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Q&A with trumpet player Boney Fields, part of this generation of African-American musicians born to tame the stage

"I believe Afro-American music influents a lot of other types of music but since it came from (Afro American) some people discriminate the culture, try to appropriate the music  without giving credit to the real creators."

Boney Fields: Real Music, Real Musician

“Real music by real musicians” as Prince used to say. Just like Prince, the trumpet…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on January 14, 2019 at 7:00am — No Comments

Versatile songwriter/guitarist Chris Daniels talks about the specificity of blues and his course in music

"That is the great thing about blues...we ALL have awful stuff that happens to us...rich man - poor man - black man - white man - bad times and hard time come to us ALL - and to be a good songwriter for the blues..."

Chris Daniels: The Sound of Kings…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on November 17, 2017 at 10:30pm — No Comments

An Interview with Milwaukee band of Tweed Funk: Blues & Soul a great chemistry mixed together that is unique

"If you live long enough you will have the blues, that is the way it was then and the way it is now."

Tweed Funk: A Blues & Soul Blender

Formed in late 2010, Tweed Funk's national ascent has been driven by their horn-fueled,…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on June 1, 2016 at 12:00am — No Comments

Μarvelous Leo Nocentelli of Meters talks about New Orleans culture, his experiences, and Muhammed Ali

"New Orleans is like a bowl of 'gumbo'. Gumbo has many ingredients in it, such as, chicken, shrimp, sausage, oysters, etc. and New Orleans music culture possesses the same thing, musically, Dixie Land, R&B, Jazz, Second Line, etc."

Leo Nocentelli: New Orleans…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on March 4, 2013 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Bob Babbitt, Funk Brothers bassist at Motown, dies at 74

R.I.P Bob Babbitt

Bob Babbitt, a bassist for Motown Records and key accompanist to some of the recording studio’s biggest stars, including Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and the Temptations, died July 16at a hospice near his home in Nashville. He was 74.…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on July 19, 2012 at 1:27pm — No Comments

New Orleans' premier bassman George Porte Jr. talks about Meters, Earl King, Snooks Eaglin, & Saints City's Music

"My philosophy on life as a musician…Try to keep your head above the water and stay competitive."

George Porter Jr...be funky all the…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on April 23, 2012 at 3:00pm — No Comments

"Captain" Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad talks about Joplin, Zappa, 60s era, his Cherokee roots, and Jesus

"Follow your dreams and put your heart and soul into it because you're only going to get out of something what you craft-fully put in it..."

Mark Farner: The Captain of Free Spirit

Mark Fredrick Farner was born in Flint,…

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Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on April 6, 2012 at 1:00pm — No Comments

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