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V.A. Function Underground: The Black & Brown American Rock Sound 1969-1974

Now-Again | Item No: 524648
Vinyl LP | 2017 / US – Original | New
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Limited edition for Record Store Day 2017!

14 tracks by Jimi Macon, Black Maffia, Blacklites and more, many reissued for the first time. Includes a 16-page booklet with extensive notes on an overlooked and important portion of Rock n’ Roll’s history & a download card to WAV files of the full album.

Nearly everyone in the world can rattle off the great African-American musical forms. Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul, Hip-Hop, House or Gospel. One influential genre is always left off of the
list: a folk music known as rock n’ roll. Rock n’ Roll was a term originally coined to market the white-friendly version of a genre that already existed; prior to 1965, the line between
rock n’ roll and R&B was thin: Ike Turner recorded and released “Rocket ‘88’ ” in 1951 and, while its Chess Records release reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart, it is
regarded by many as the first Rock n’ Roll record.

The Great Divide between R&B and Rock n’ Roll came after the Beatles and the British Invasion decimated the Top 40 chart in 1964.

So somewhere in the mid to late-1960s, Rock n’ Roll became perceived as something for
the Caucasian kids. When Jimi Hendrix and Arthur Lee made the scene, they were said to be black musicians entering into a white world.

This anthology presents earnest questions as to why we know so little about these bands and the movement of which they were a part.
Item Details
Item No: 524648
Artist: V.A.
Title: Function Underground: The Black & Brown American Rock Sound 1969-1974
Label: Now-Again
Catalog No: NA5149-LP
Format: Vinyl LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: US – Original
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Rock & Indie
Style: Rock 'n' Roll
Available since: 2017-04-12
Condition: New
Price: $ 23.79
Weight: 250g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 1984 - There's A Wrinkle In Our Time
A2 Purple Snow - Down By The River
A3 Jimi Macon - Jimi's Guitar Raps With The Bass
A4 Creations Unltd - Corruption Is The Thing
A5 We The People - Function Underground
A6 Michael Liggins And The Super Souls - Loaded Black
A7 Stone Coal White - Stone Coal White
B1 Blacklites - BL Movement
B2 Ebony Rhythm Band - Drugs Ain't Cool
B3 Cisneros And Garza Group - I'm A Man
B4 La Carnival - Blind Man (45 Version)
B5 Revolution - The Siesta Is Over
B6 Black Conspirators - Just Got To Be Free
B7 Black Maffia - I Want To Take You Higher
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