What’s Up With What’s Going Down 1-25-07
funky happ’s around the ATL…
| Date | Artist | Venue |
| Each Fri | Brothers Funk (Cozy Shawn & Brett Eclectic) | MJQ |
| Each Tue | DJ Cozy Shawn | Django |
| Fri 1-26 | Galactic | The Roxy |
| Sat 1-27 | Galactic | The Roxy |
| Fri 2-9 | Soulive | The Loft |
| Sat 2-10 | The Dynamites feat. Charles Walker | The EARL |
| Tue 2-20 | Cadillac Jones | Live @ WREK |
| Sat 2-24 | Entropy | The 5 Spot |
| Sun 3-4 | The Roots | Tabernacle |
| Thu 3-8 | Medeski Martin & Wood | Variety Playhouse |
Couple of Funky Shows this Weekend
Check out the tribute to the one and only musical genius that was James Brown. It’s going down this Saturday at the Apache Cafe. It’s officially called “The House that James Built pt. 4 – Tribute to James Brown” and features a host of local DJs spinning true funk from James Brown and his entourage (JB’s, Maceo, Bootsy, etc.). Below is the flyer.
Also, Saturday night is Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk at the Roxy Theatre. I’ve never seen them, but the Nevilles are notorious for their roots in Cajun funk (Funky Meters, Wild Tchapatoulos, etc.), and with a name like Dumpstaphunk, they’ve got to be worth a listen.
If you happen to check into either of these shows, comment back with a review if you feel like it. I will be at Apache listening to tons of JB spun on the 1’s and 2’s.
P.S. I know that I missed “What’s up with what’s going down” and didn’t post a playlist for last week. The WUWWGD hasn’t changed much so reference last week’s for funky events, and check next week for an update. Also, I wasn’t at the show, so I’ll get the old playlist (spun by El Dogg and Cozy Shawn) up asap.
The Mighty Hannibal Tonight!!
One night only at the EARL: Atlanta’s own seminal soul performer, The Mighty Hannibal w/backing band The Black Lips. And the opening act will be Gentleman Jesse & His Men, featuring WREK’s own, Craig Johnson.
Check out a legendary soul singer in one of Atlanta’s coziest venues. Doors open at 9:30. 21 and up.
And if you can’t make it, hopefully El Dogg or myself will have a review and some pictures from this show. So stay tuned to this space.
Read more about The Mighty Hannibal here and here
Playlist 1-11-07
| Artist | Song | Album |
| Cold Grits | It’s Your Thing | What It Is (comp.) |
| James Brown | Let Yourself Go | Foundations of Funk |
| Billy Cobham | Panhandler | Funky Thide of Sings |
| James Brown | There Was a Time | Foundations of Funk |
| Temptations | Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On | All Directions |
| The Mighty Hannibal | Somebody in the World for You | What It Is (comp.) |
| Funkadelic | Miss Lucifer’s Love | America Eats Her Young |
| The Crusaders | Spanish Harlem | At Their Best |
| Tommy Stewart | Atlanta Get Down | Tommy Stewart |
| Greyboy AllStars | Get a Job | Live |
| Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns | Four Play | What it Is (comp.) |
| The JB’s | Givin’ up Food for Funk | Anthology |
Remembering James
This week’s Creative Loafing has a nice article remembering the legend that was James Brown. Rather than eulogizing JB in a reporter’s words, author Scott Freeman let the people who knew him best tell the story. So the article is little more than a bunch of stories an quips about the hardest working man in show business.
Alan Leeds: “Cold Sweat” was one of the songs where James Brown reinvented the vocabulary of music. Jerry Wexler [vice president of Atlantic Records] told a writer that “Cold Sweat” just screwed everybody up, that it made every musician have to go back to the drawing board. Every musician in the world was saying, “Holy shit, how’d he do that?” Very few figured it out.
Check it out. It makes for some nice reading.
Also for a pretty thorough bio, including some little known facts about the man of a million monikers (including that he had his eyebrows replaced with tattoos in 1991!), check out JB’s Wikipedia entry.
Also, Apache Cafe is hosting a James Brown Tribute Show on January 20.
