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Dark Merda were a funky rock and roll combo with a substantial debt to Jimi Hendrix, combining fuzz-toned, psychedelic blues-rock with folky acoustic passages and modern past due-’60s spirit. Offering guitarists Anthony and Charles Hawkins, bassist VC Veasey (aka Veesee L. Veasey), and drummer Tyrone Hite, the group got its …

Songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/maker Steven Greenberg created Lipps, Inc., who experienced a two million-selling number 1 pop/quantity two R&B strike with “Funkytown.” The Minneapolis indigenous started playing drums at 15; by 20 he previously written and created his 1st record. Once the record stiffed, Greenberg started obtaining pressure to go in to the …

Seattle music group SoulFood 76 catch a ’70s psychedelic funk groove in its independentlly released Velour album.

The Blackbyrds were a jazz-funk group with thick R&B streaks running down their backs. Constructed by Donald Byrd in 1974, the group’s first people — percussionist Pericles “Benefit” Jacobs, Jr., drummer Keith Killgo, keyboardist Kevin Toney, reeds participant Allan Barnes, bassist Joe Hall, guitarist Barney Perry — had been mined …

Vocalist Sylvia Striplin joined up with Aquarian Wish for the jazz-funk/disco group’s second record and stayed with them through their early-’80s break up. Soon after that, she became connected with Roy Ayers and his Uno Melodic label; not merely was she area of the short-lived Eighties Females project led by …

Through the early to mid-’70s, Bobby DeBarge, Eddie Fluellen, Phillip Ingram (brother of James Ingram), Jody Sims, and Gregory Williams had been within the Ohio-based White Heating. The music group backed Barry Light and documented a self-titled record — released by RCA in 1975 — made by the maestro. Budgetary …

Originally a funky instrumental soul combo in Stax/Volt, the Bar-Kays were almost destroyed when a lot of the band perished within the same plane crash that claimed Otis Redding. Amazingly, the Bar-Kays not merely regrouped but prospered, changing into a well-known funk ensemble during the period of the ’70s. They …

The founder of Motown Information, Berry Gordy did what many folks of his time believed could hardly ever be achieved: he brought Dark music into an incredible number of Light Americans’ homes, helping both Dark artists and their culture gain acceptance, and opening the entranceway for a variety of successful …

A rollicking vocalist and gifted harmonica participant, Syl Johnson has forged a profession both in blues and spirit. The sibling of bassist Macintosh Thompson and guitarist/vocalist Jimmy Johnson, Syl Johnson sang and used blues performers Magic Sam, Billy Boy Arnold, and Junior Wells within the ’50s before documenting with Jimmy …

French funk auteur Sinclair spearheaded the blue-eyed R&B revival that 1st gripped his homeland through the mid-’90s. Created Dominique Blanc-Francard, Jr., in 1971, he was the boy from the renowned audio engineer Dominique Blanc-Francard, Sr., along with the sibling of Hubert “Growth Bass” Blanc-Francard, a well known DJ and maker. …