BLACK FEELING VOL. 2: Burning Spear/ Shaft In Africa 45 sampler (2011)
Lance ‘funk is my middle name’ Ferguson of Bamboos/ Cookin’ On 3 Burners fame brings forth the second volume of the Black Feeling project. The central conceit behind this (as with the original) is that Lance and buddies get to cover funk-soul and jazz-funk classics but each one under a different pseudonym. On this album taster, S.O.U.L.’s Burning Spear gets a frantically percussive makeover by ‘The Polytones’ with a Blue Note-style guitar while ‘The Mighty Show-Stoppers’ give Shaft In Africa slightly harder and faster seeing to than Johnny Pate’s original. Anyone familiar with the original funk compositions of…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM
