Description

How would you like to hear a new side—or should we say sides—of the world’s greatest funk band? This 3-LP, 40-track collecton presents the A and B-side of every single that organist Art Neville, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter, Jr., and drummer Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste cut for the Josie, Reprise & Warner Bros. label, virtually their entire singles output (all but two co-produced by the late, great Allen Toussaint) save for a few odds ‘n’ ends issued mostly overseas.

That means that you not only get every hit along with its hard-to-find B-side but also the rare single mixes, including the especially rare original mono single mixes of the 1968-1971 Josie sides, very few of which have appeared on vinyl since their original 45 release (the first three LP sides are all mono; the last three, featuring the later Reprise and Warner Bros. singles, presents all stereo single mixes).

These songs represent the mother lode of New Orleans funk, classic tracks like “Sophisticated Cissy,” “Cissy Strut,” “Look-Ka Py Py,” “Chicken Strut,” “Hand Clapping Song,” “Hey Pocky A-Way,” and more. And, with liner notes by Bill Dahl featuring quotes from Nocentelli, Neville, and Porter, this 3- LP set offers the best vinyl retrospective to date of this enormously influential band.

And how’s the sound? Well, after extensive and exhaustive tape research, we were able to come up with original tape sources for all but five of these single sides, and the remastering—by Mike Milchner at SonicVision—is tight. Now available in a lower-priced black vinyl version for crate-diggers everywhere!

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Tracks:

LP 1 Side A

Sophisticated Cissy

Sehorns Farms

Cissy Strut

Here Comes the Meter Man

Ease Back

Ann

Dry Spell

Little Old Money Maker

LP 1 Side B

Look-Ka Py Py

This Is My Last Affair

Chicken Strut

Hey! Last Minute

Hand Clapping Song

Joog

RECORD TWO Side A

A Message from the Meters

Zony Mash

Stretch Your Rubber Band

Groovy Lady

(The World Is a Bit under the Weather) Doodle-Oop

I Need More Time

Good Old Funky Music

Sassy Lady

LP 2 Side B

Do the Dirt

Smiling

Cabbage Alley

The Flower

Chug-Chug-Chug-A-Lug

(Push ‘N’ Shove) Part I

Chug-Chug-Chug-A-Lug (Push ‘N’ Shove) Part II

LP 3 Side A

Hey Pocky A-Way

Africa

People Say

Loving You Is on My Mind

They All Ask’d for You

Running Fast (Long Version)

LP 3 Side B

Disco Is the Thing Today

Mr. Moon

Trick Bag

Find Yourself

Be My Lady

No More Okey Doke