Monday, April 10, 2006:

Eddie Bo -- The Thang / Sissy Walk

Eddie Bo -- The Thang (Pt. 1)
Eddie Bo -- Sissy Walk
I ordered another Eddie Bo CD after liking the last one so much; this one (The Hook and Sling) is much funkier than the previous, which was more in line with early rock and R&B.

As I mentioned when I posted Eddie Bo before, I'd first found his music on DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's Brainfreeze, and then I spent some time trying to track down the samples. So far Bo's are the only ones I've been able to find.

Hook and Sling has another of them, surprisingly enough--I didn't see it on the list I found of samples used, but "The Thang (pt. 1)" was in the set, for good reason: it has this great "lost funk" vibe to it with the vocal delivery and the wah-wah on the guitar, and then the distortion in the solo.

Then "Sissy Walk," with its sax and guitar, sounds like it could have been a lost James Brown track. Eddie latches onto that groove and rides over the hill and into the sunset.
The Hook & Sling review @ allmusic.com
[The Hook & Sling]

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Comments:
I'd never heard that song by them before. The Meters are good; they could do with a post too. ^_^
∼ posted by Blogger Tuwa @ 8:45 AM, April 10, 2006  

Eddie who? ^_^
∼ posted by Blogger Reverend Frost @ 12:29 PM, April 10, 2006  

Eddie Boo?

Eddie Beau?

Eddie Who Brings the Funk But Can't Rock As Hard As Reverend Frost, And His Amplifier Probably Only Goes up to Seven?
∼ posted by Blogger Tuwa @ 6:44 PM, April 11, 2006  

Yup, I didn't find the stage at the last gig :)
Btw, we should start a new religion based on some Eddie Bo divinity. Nah wait, we might go to war with all those Britney Spears Fanatics.
∼ posted by Blogger Reverend Frost @ 9:02 AM, April 12, 2006  

No, we'd have Celine Dion attack Innervisions with autotune and then we'd declare war on a producer who forbids the use of computers in music altogether. Then once we'd taken him out of the picture his sound engineers would all starting fighting amongst themselves and we'd go off to SXSW talking about how hard it is to do the work we chose to do.
∼ posted by Blogger Tuwa @ 9:47 AM, April 12, 2006  

Ok I'm in ^_^
∼ posted by Blogger Reverend Frost @ 12:19 PM, April 12, 2006  

Eddie Bo has a writeup in the New Orleans Times-Picayune. If you don't want to bother with cookies and giving your zip code and DOB and so forth, then check it out from the Google results (news: Eddie Bo, or later, probably Google: "Veronica Randolph transformed a former").

Also see this WFMU interview (about halfway through), this blog writeup, and this discography.

Thanks, Dan.
∼ posted by Blogger Tuwa @ 11:06 AM, April 29, 2006  

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