Track Listing

1. Born to Live with Heartache - Mary Love
2. Move in the Room
3. Ebony
4. Plenty Action
5. Straighten It out with Yo Man - Sugar Pie DeSanto
6. Acid Lady
7. Si Se Puede
8. Poor Sad Child, Pt. 1 - Windjammers, Windjammers
9. Goin Home
10. Hip Breakin
11. Stop Look Listen - Primevils
12. Creole Girl - Victor Green
13. Devil's on the Run
14. Lenient with My Love
15. Brute Strength

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #182198 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
The musical spectrum spans from raw funk to gritty soul. The funk scene in San Francisco and surrounding areas reflected that eclectic vibe as artists incorporated rock, Latin, and blues influences into their work. Rarities and underground hits from Ray Camacho, Project Soul, Faye Marshall, Primevil, Dawn And Sunset, Soft Touch, The Windjammers, and many more. Extensive liner notes and anecdotes, plus a first hand overview of the Bay Area's funk scene from writer Lee Hildebrand, who saw most of the bands. "A killer! As revolutionary as the music and political climate was in the Bay Area in the late '60s and early '70s, it's damn near criminal that there haven't been more representative collections of the music. Enter Luv N Haight Records, who are here with the first ever comprehensive compilation of Bay Area funk and hard soul!" - dustygroove.com.

Amazon.com
The San Francisco Bay Area, a legendary crucible of hipness that includes Berkeley, Oakland (the birthplace of the Black Panthers), and nearby communities, was a major hotbed of soul and funk during the sixties and seventies. Sly and the Family Stone and Tower of Power were only two of the local bands who went national. This second volume from the Luv N’Haight imprint was originally spawned out of the Groove Merchant retail shop and later led to the founding of the larger Ubiquity label. Despite a prevailing down-and-dirtyness, each of the tracks share a loosey-goosey, almost naive exuberance, with suave vocals, flashy horn sections, garishly psychedelic wah-wah guitars and obese, splattery bass lines. San Francisco T.K.O.’s "Acid Lady" is an amazing time capsule -- one can almost hear the afros wilting on a sweaty dance floor! Ray Comacho’s percussive, Latin-inflected "Si Se Puede" has a lot in common with early Carlos Santana while Faye Marshall’s cheeky pipes and extended, Hammond-organ-laced instrumental break on "Goin’ Home" could give any modern R&B diva a run for her money. Journalist Lee Hildebrand, who was involved in nightclub PR when these bands were still extant, provides detailed and affectionate liner notes. --Christina Roden

Customer Reviews

Too good to be true !
Yet another great collection of EXTREMELY rare '70s funk... this time, with focus on a number of extremely groovy and bumping group's from Tower of Power, WAR and Sly Stone's own back yard, the East Bay Area...

SF may be best remembered for flower power and the hippies, but after listening to this album you'll definitely be adding ultra wicked/ultra tight and slickly produced funk to the list...

Though most (if not all) of the groups on this compilation seemed to have missed the radar, all of the tracks represent tight production, arranging and the best of the best of raw early '70s funk... If horns, greasy Hammonds, wa wa guitar, and bumpin' fatback drums are your formula for fun, you can't go wrong with this mix of slick, ultra jivin' and heavy groovin' instrumentals as well as vocal tunes...

Belongs right up their with many of the other great funk compilations of recent years... including WHAT IT IS and FUNKY 16 CORNERS... tracks are well picked... no throw-aways... a straight through listening that will boost your FUNK-Q and keep you occupied for years to come.

Fans of STAX (circa the 70's) and the FATBACK BAND (circa the PERCEPTION years) will probably dig this compilation in particular... or, on the flip side of the coin, if you dig this compilation, check out the volume of the STAX boxed set dedicated to their final years, as well as THE FATBACK BAND's Perception years compilation.