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01. DENNIS COFFEY - Son Of Scorpio
02. DENNIS COFFEY - Guitar Big Band
03. DENNIS COFFEY - Theme From Enter The Dragon
04. DENNIS COFFEY - Chicano
05. DENNIS COFFEY - Lonely Moon Child
06. DENNIS COFFEY - Impressions Of
07. DENNIS COFFEY - Ride Sally Ride
08. DENNIS COFFEY - Taurus
09. DENNIS COFFEY - Scorpio
10. DENNIS COFFEY - Getting It On
11. DENNIS COFFEY - Big City Funk
12. DENNIS COFFEY - Whole Lot Of Love
13. DENNIS COFFEY - Garden Of The Moon
14. DENNIS COFFEY - Capricorn's Thing
15. DENNIS COFFEY - Outrageous
ARTIST
TITLE
Big City Funk: Original Old School Breaks
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
VAMPI 078CD VAMPI 078CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/5/2011

...& Heavy Guitar Soul. 2011 repress, originally released in 2006. Dennis Coffey (born in Detroit, Michigan) is an American guitarist, notable as a prominent studio musician for many soul and R&B recordings. Coffey learned to play guitar when he was 13 in Ontonagon County in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. At 15, he played on his first recording session backing Vic Gallon on "I'm Gone" on the Gondola label. In the early 1960s he joined The Royaltones who had hits with "Poor Boy" in 1958 and "Flamingo Express" in 1961. The Royaltones played sessions with other artists including Del Shannon. As a member of The Funk Brothers studio band, Coffey played on dozens of recordings for Motown Records, and introduced the wah-wah guitar sound to Motown producer Norman Whitfield's recordings. He also played on Edwin Starr's "S.O.S. (Stop Her On Sight)," The Isley Brothers' "It's Your Thing," and Freda Payne's "Band Of Gold." In addition, Coffey scored the blaxploitation film Black Belt Jones. In 1971, Coffey recorded Scorpio which was a million-selling single and in 1972 Taurus, both with The Detroit Guitar Band. Since then, he has recorded several solo albums, most of them for the Sussex and Westbound labels. In the early '70s, Dennis Coffey, Motown "Funk Brother" and super-session guitar man, seemed determined to write soundtracks -- even if he wasn't commissioned by a Hollywood studio. Indeed, the four studio albums he cut for the Sussex label between 1971 and 1974, from which this compilation is culled, are like a big personal advertisement for potential film score work. Coffey's raw, compressed guitar style -- his big city breakbeat funk -- certainly evokes a tough, urban landscape inhabited by tough, urban gangsters.