Hump Day Funk [slight return] — Banbarra and A Certain Ratio

Compare and contrast.

Hump Day Funk — Garaj Mahal

Hump Day Funk — Medeski, Martin, & Wood

Hump Day Funk — Stevie Wonder

Hump Day Funk — Manu Dibango

Hump Day Funk — Heatwave

Hump Day Funk — Billy Cobham, George Duke, Alphonso Johnson, and John Scofield

Hump Day Funk — The Parliaments

Hump Day Funk — The Brothers Johnson

Last HDF of the oh eight.
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Hump Day Funk — Parliament

Bop Gun (Endangered Species) is the inspiration for Hump Day Funk. As far as I know.

Hump Day Funk — The Meters

A HDF repost — yes — but The Meters are always worth another look.
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Hump Day Funk — The Jacksons

Hump Day Funk — The Isley Brothers

Hump Day Funk — Bar Kays

Hump Day Funk — Bill Withers

Last week's HDF — Bill Withers' "Use Me" — is a hard act to follow.
But NPR's Elvis Mitchell interviewed the man himself about his music, his life, and where he came from.
It's leaked its way onto the internet somehow, and seems a perfect follow-up to last week's little Wither's taste.


Part 1
Part 2

Want more?
Well, check out the trailer for Still Bill, a feature documentary on Bill Withers that's supposed to be coming out this winter.
Good time to be in this time.

Hump Day Funk — Bill Withers

hump day funk — the bar-kays

Hump Day Funk — Wattstax Music Festival Part 1 of 14

We've featured some of this film in previous Hump Day Funks, but we've got it all for you now ... starting with part one.



From the liner notes — "Focused on the 1972 Stax music festival as well as the African-American community of Watts in Los Angeles and filmed by Mel Stuart, Wattstax was released into theaters in 1973. The following year of 1974 it was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Documentary Film.

"The concert, attended by over 100,000 black Americans, was held at the Los Angeles Coliseum on August 20, 1972, and organized by Memphis' Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Watts riots and black power, pride, culture, tradition, and heritage struggle of African-Americans. Wattstax was seen by some as "the Afro-American answer to Woodstock." In order to enable as many members of the black community in L.A. as possible, tickets were sold for only $1.00 each. The Reverend Jesse Jackson gave the invocation, which included his "I Am - Somebody" poem, which was recited in a call and response with the assembled stadium crowd. Interspersed between songs are interviews with Richard Pryor, Ted Lange, and others who discuss the black experience in America."

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14

Hump Day Funk — The O'Jays

Hump Day Funk — Curtis Mayfield