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Pass The Hatchet
Posted by magneticfields on 22 March 2009 - 12:44pm.
Just read over at http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/ that Eddie Bo died the other day.
You've probably never heard of him, but he was one of the geniuses of New Orleans R&B and funk over the past forty or fifty years. As well as records released under his own name and a clutch of pseudonyms, he wrote, produced and played on hordes of fine songs on dozens of local labels. If you've heard the Soul Jazz "New Orleans Funk" CDs he's all over them
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and here's a mix I put up on 8tracks a while ago
Enjoy
"You've probably never heard of him"
That's getting a bit NME circa 1979 isn't it?
I suspect many people here have heard of him and are intimately familiar with his work.
Whilst I can't claim to be a massive fan - I only have a couple of his albums - I can lay claim to having eaten at his restaurant (also called Check Your Bucket)
From This Day On
I've known that record for 25 years or so. Picked up by DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist on Brainfreeze. The weird thing about the Northern scene for me was tapes & tapes of stuff played at nighters where I knew the song but had no idea of the artist - I was pure amateur when it came to collecting on the Northern scene as it was so vast. Bumping around youtube there's loads of other Eddie Bo R&B/Funk stuff that I know that I never knew was him. RIP Eddie Bo.