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December 25, 2017
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November 10, 2017
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How would you like to hear a new side—or should we say sides—of the world’s greatest funk band? This 3-LP, 40-track collecton presents the A and B-side of every single that organist Art Neville, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter, Jr., and drummer Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste cut for the Josie, Reprise & Warner Bros. label, virtually their entire singles output (all but two co-produced by the late, great Allen Toussaint) save for a few odds ‘n’ ends issued mostly overseas. That means that you not only get every hit along with its hard-to-find B-side but also the rare single mixes, including the especially rare original mono single mixes of the 1968-1971 Josie sides, very few of which have appeared on vinyl since their original 45 release (the first three LP sides are all mono; the last three, featuring the later Reprise and Warner Bros. singles, presents all stereo single mixes). These songs represent the mother lode of New Orleans funk, classic tracks like “Sophisticated Cissy,” “Cissy Strut,” “Look-Ka Py Py,” “Chicken Strut,” “Hand Clapping Song,” “Hey Pocky A-Way,” and more. And, with liner notes by Bill Dahl featuring quotes from Nocentelli, Neville, and Porter, this 3- LP set offers the best vinyl retrospective to date of this enormously influential band. And how’s the sound? Well, after extensive and exhaustive tape research, we were able to come up with original tape sources for all but five of these single sides, and the remastering—by Mike Milchner at SonicVision—is tight. Now available in a lower-priced black vinyl version for crate-diggers everywhere!
RECORD ONE Side A
Sophisticated Cissy
Sehorns Farms
Cissy Strut
Here Comes the Meter Man
Ease Back
Ann
Dry Spell
Little Old Money Maker
RECORD ONE Side B
Look-Ka Py Py
This Is My Last Affair
Chicken Strut
Hey! Last Minute
Hand Clapping Song
Joog
RECORD TWO Side A
A Message from the Meters
Zony Mash
Stretch Your Rubber Band
Groovy Lady
(The World Is a Bit under the Weather) Doodle-Oop
I Need More Time
Good Old Funky Music
Sassy Lady
RECORD TWO Side B
Do the Dirt
Smiling
Cabbage Alley
The Flower
Chug-Chug-Chug-A-Lug
(Push ‘N’ Shove) Part I
Chug-Chug-Chug-A-Lug (Push ‘N’ Shove) Part II
RECORD THREE Side A
Hey Pocky A-Way
Africa
People Say
Loving You Is on My Mind
They All Ask’d for You
Running Fast (Long Version)
RECORD THREE Side B
Disco Is the Thing Today
Mr. Moon
Trick Bag
Find Yourself
Be My Lady
No More Okey Doke