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Midwest Funk: Funk 45s From Tornado Alley
FORMAT
CD

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NA 5012CD NA 5012CD
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RELEASE DATE
3/29/2010

2004 release. Domestic release, licensed from Jazzman. "Funk from the breadbasket: 23 rare and unreleased cuts. The definitive anthology of the Midwestern states' '60s and '70s funk scenes." ""Following the critically acclaimed Texas Funk album, Midwest Funk is an additional collection of rare, collectible and previously-unreleased funk 45s. This time collector Malcolm Catto and I drove 1000s of miles across the endless cornfields of the American Midwest, a vast expanse of farm land that covers the region between the Rockies in the West and the Appalachians in the East. Summer is typically stifling hot and winter extremely harsh -- Tornado Alley also runs through the entire region. We worked hard but were lucky too -- not only did we avoid the tornadoes, but we also found some incredibly rare 45s and some amazing unreleased master tapes. And we've presented the best of them here in this CD/double LP. It was great to be the first people to meet and hang out with the often-bootlegged Soul Toranodoes, guzzle whiskey in Henry Peters' basement, and chill out in one of Jessie Wallace's vintage white Cadillacs. We chatted about their wild gigs and gruelling recording sessions in the '60s & '70s, they gave us amazing photos, told us fascinating stories and shared priceless anecdotes filled with their inspirations and their failures. Their life story in music was often captured on one solitary, but brilliant, 45, and that musical story is told here." -- Dante Carfagna