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What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves: 1967-1977 (Box Set) (CD)

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DISC 1 for What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves: 1967-1977 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Spreadin' Honey - The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band
2   Soul Finger - The Bar-Kays
3   Shadow Of Your Smile, The - Brother Jack McDuff
4   Gangster Of Love (Parts 1 And 2) - Jimmy Norman
5   Memphis Train, The - Rufus Thomas
6   Get Out Of My Life Woman - Grassella Oliphant
7   Live Right Now - Eddie Harris
8   Pig Snoots Part 1 - Natural Bridge Bunch
9   Soul Sound System - Freedom Sounds/Wayne Henderson
10   Snatching It Back - Clarence Carter
11   Stoned Soul - Artie Christopher
12   Getting The Corners - The T.S.U. Toronadoes
13   Sexy Coffee Pot - Tony Alvon & The Belairs
14   Don't Come Around Here Anymore - Mark Putney
15   Keep On Dancing - The Commodores
16   Right On Brother--Part 1 - South Shore Commission
17   Pop, Popcorn Children - Eldridge Holmes
18   It's Your Thing - Cold Grits
19   It's All In Your Mind - Soul Angels
20   Funky John - Johnny Cameron & The Camerons
21   Help Me Make Up My Mind - Joyce Jones
22   Rock Me Baby - Lou Johnson
23   Sing A Simple Song - Noble Knights
24   Do You Dig It - Titus Turner
25   Funky Canyon - Phil Moore Jr.
26   Jam Jam - Fabulous Counts
27   Tampin - The Rhine Oaks
 
DISC 2 for What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves: 1967-1977 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Gossip - Cyril Neville
2   Somebody In The World For You - The Mighty Hannibal
3   Stanga - Little Sister
4   Jumpin' Jack Flash - Ananda Shankar
5   Deacon, The - Brute Force
6   Sookie Sookie - Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band
7   Right On - Clarence Wheeler & The Enforcers
8   Don't Worry If There's A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go - Curtis Mayfield
9   Stepping Stones - Johnny Harris
10   I'm Just Like You - 6ix
11   Funky Thing Part 1 - The Unemployed
12   Messie Bessie - Shirley Scott
13   Fairchild - Willie West
14   Cold Bear - The Gaturs
15   I Can't Get Next To You - Mongo Santamaria
16   Feelin' Alright - Lulu
17   Soul Bowl - The Memphis Horns
18   Tuane - Hammer
19   Take It Off Part 2 - Johnny Tolbert & De Thangs
20   Seeds Of Life - Harlem River Drive - (featuring Eddie Palmieri/Jimmy Norman)
21   Engine Number Nine - Wilson Pickett
 
DISC 3 for What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves: 1967-1977 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Hard Times - Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters
2   What So Never The Dance (part 1 & 2) - Houseguests
3   Headless Heroes - Eugene McDaniels
4   Spinning Wheel - Wade Marcus
5   Bad Tune - Earth, Wind & Fire
6   Mr. Cool - Rasputin's Stash
7   Don't Cha Hear Me Callin' To Ya - Junior Mance
8   Hang On In There - The Stovall Sisters
9   Funky Nassau Part 2 - The Beginning Of The End
10   Whatever's Fair - Mark Holder & the Positives
11   Face It - Ed Robinson
12   Wah Wah Man - Young-Holt Unlimited
13   Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin (Alternate mix)
14   Won't Nobody Listen - Black Haze Express
15   Going Down - Allen Toussaint
16   Suavecito - Malo
17   You Gotta Know Whatcha Doin' - Charles Wright
18   Mo Jo Hanna - Tami Lynn
19   Ridin' Thumb - King Curtis
20   Almendra - Macondo
21   Nuki Suki - Little Richard
 
DISC 4 for What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves: 1967-1977 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Getting Uptown (To Get Down) - United 8
2   8 Days On The Road - Howard Tate
3   Moon Shadow - LaBelle
4   Let It Crawl - Society's Bag
5   Wanaoh - Black Heat
6   If It Was Good Enough For Daddy - Clarence Reid
7   Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky - Claudia Linnear
8   Cosmic Sea - The Mystic Moods
9   Kissing My Love - Cold Blood
10   Flute Thing - Seatrain
11   Chug, Chug Chug-A-Lug (Push N' Shove) - The Meters
12   Funky To The Bone - Freddie & Henchi
13   Try It Again - Bobby Byrd
14   Teasin' - Cornell Dupree
15   Rite Away, (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) - Dr. John
16   Chicken Heads - Oscar Brown Jr.
17   Rien Na Va Plus - Funk Factory
18   Cajun Moon - Herbie Mann
19   Improve - Darrow Fletcher
20   Riding High - Faze-O
21   Four Play - Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns
22   California Dreamin' - Eddie Hazel
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "What it is: nonstop late-Sixties-and-Seventies party time from the deep recesses of these major-label catalogs."
Entertainment Weekly (p.73) - "Even as greasy boogaloo gives way to polyrhythmic Cat Stevens covers, the four discs stave off the 4/4 behemoth of disco." -- Grade: A-

Title Note

Rare groove is the stuff that killer record collections are built on: obscure R&B, jazzy funk, and funky soul plucked from the deepest and dustiest of crates. Of course, not all listeners have the time, patience, or cashflow to go musical spelunking for old-skool gems. With that in mind, Rhino's superb four-disc box set, WHAT IT IS! FUNKY SOUL AND RARE GROOVES: 1967-1977, takes care of the hard part and offers 91 tracks of deep, sweaty funk from the genre's heyday.

While a number of the artists will be familiar to the average fan (the Commodores, Rufus Thomas, Labelle, Little Richard, among others), many more won't (Cornell Dupree, Cold Grits, Black Heat, Society's Bag, United 8, etc.). Of course, obscurity is the name of the game here: It's not hard to find a DJ spinning "Brick House," but Little Sister's "Stanga"--included here--is a different bag all together. Wallflowers beware, and "all the squares, go home

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5 out of 5 stars What it is? The answer is awesome!, May 6, 2008
By Soul Power
These are forgotten gems you will never find on vinyl. Well worth the price, bring the funk!

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