portsmouth 2000

it's raining italian tears, mexican mandolins, when a hard rain's-a-gonna fall starts ... ... children running all around, nobody listening for real because it's way too painful ... .... what an elegant and stylish way to suffer ... until the ballad of frankie lee and judas priest raises the level so high no human words can describe the joy and fear running through our veins ...

slim harpo 1966

professor longhair 1949

hollywood funk

slim and slam (from helzapoppin', 1941)

original new orleans funk

eddie bo (1956)/the meters (1968)

the meters (live, 1974)

birth of funk

olympia, paris, 1971

olympia, paris, 1967

white funk

white jam/captain beefheart/automne 1971 (films d'occasion production)

best of jazz funk

miles davis 1970

jamaïcan funk

toots and the maytals (1962, 1967)

birth of funk (3)

al green 1972

african funk

e. t. mensah (ghana highlife from the fifties)

where funk came from (1)

si mohammed bel hassan el sudani (marrakech, 1959)

louisiana funk

slim harpo (1960)/robert pete williams (1968)

where funk came from (2)

mississippi bluesman lonnie pitchford playing his own hand made one string guitar, and building a diddley bow (filmed and told by alan lomax)

where funk came from (3)

napoleon strickland (drum and fife band, straight from africa)

gertrud, la fin

remember jim ford ....

... hidden composer of legendary white soul hits (he's supposed to be the real author of bobby gentry's ode to billy joe), and white eyed underground country funk lost crooner

memphis, 30 juillet 2011

most recent and lovely version of dylan's soft tear jerker, sugar baby

céline chante

ford + mizoguchi = stavros tornes

karkalou, 1984