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Artist:	BO, EDDIE
Title:	In The Pocket With
Label:	VAMPISOUL (SPAIN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	VAMPI 095CD

Eddie Bo is one of the most important and least known of the great funksters of the '60s and '70s. Vampisoul proudly presents a complete vision this New Orleans genius as performer, composer and producer. His importance to the New Orleans scene cannot be overestimated. Where James Brown is the Charlie Parker of funk, Eddie Bo is the music's Thelonious Monk, working with a strange, sometimes unfamiliar palette of sounds and rhythms, which reveal their beauty and complexity a little more with every listen. Much of this palette is common to New Orleans funk and soul: the drums of the Wild Indian tribes and the "second line," the soulful piano of players like Professor Longhair, James Booker, Huey Piano Smith, Fats Domino and Bo himself, and the spice of the wild and unique mix of cultures that has been in New Orleans for hundreds of years. From his early and formative years to the present days, and including both his own recordings and his productions for other artists, this is the only compilation with the complete picture. The music comes together with a massive essay, biography, and liner notes penned by journalist/specialist Bryce White.

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