WESLEY, Fred & the JB's Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/artist/wesley-fred-the-jbs/ Guerssen Records Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:24:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-isotip-32x32.png WESLEY, Fred & the JB's Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/artist/wesley-fred-the-jbs/ 32 32 Damn Right I Am Somebody https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/damn-right-i-am-somebody/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/damn-right-i-am-somebody/ In 1974 one of James Brown;s most important band-leaders and sidemen - trombonist Fred Wesley - would release not one but two albums as a leader including Damn Right I Am Somebody. Starting with an evocativecover it was clear to fans that this album wasn't all about a party. Deep messages abound in the songs here, such as the nearly 10-minute workout "I'm Paying Taxes, But What Am I Buying."
Social messages aside, Fred and his assembled JBs were a party-moving funk machine at heart, as heard on "If You Don't Get It The First Time, Back Up And Try It Again, Party" and the laid-back groove of "Same Beat" (with prototypical sampling of Jesse Jackson exhorting an audience to chant "I am / Somebody"). Nestled among these raise-your-fist classics is one of the most experimental funk cuts ever made: "Blow Your Head," known to relatively modern listeners as the backbone of Public Enemy's "Public Enemy #1" (from 1987). Other tracks have been sampled by EPMD, Run-DMC, De La Soul, Digable Planets, and Ice-T among others.
Get On Down pays reverent tribute to the reissue of this classic housed in a 1970s style Stoughton jacket.

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]]> In 1974 one of James Brown;s most important band-leaders and sidemen – trombonist Fred Wesley – would release not one but two albums as a leader including Damn Right I Am Somebody. Starting with an evocativecover it was clear to fans that this album wasn’t all about a party. Deep messages abound in the songs here, such as the nearly 10-minute workout “I’m Paying Taxes, But What Am I Buying.”
Social messages aside, Fred and his assembled JBs were a party-moving funk machine at heart, as heard on “If You Don’t Get It The First Time, Back Up And Try It Again, Party” and the laid-back groove of “Same Beat” (with prototypical sampling of Jesse Jackson exhorting an audience to chant “I am / Somebody”). Nestled among these raise-your-fist classics is one of the most experimental funk cuts ever made: “Blow Your Head,” known to relatively modern listeners as the backbone of Public Enemy’s “Public Enemy #1” (from 1987). Other tracks have been sampled by EPMD, Run-DMC, De La Soul, Digable Planets, and Ice-T among others.
Get On Down pays reverent tribute to the reissue of this classic housed in a 1970s style Stoughton jacket.

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