Hawk’s Friday Funk

Posted by Michael on Jan 8, 2010 in Funky Stuff | 1 comment

This is a little feature I’ve been doing on my Facebook account for a few weeks and thought it would be great to base it here instead.

I got into funk about the same time I got into food back in the early 90s and the two passions are part of my every day. Back in my early 20s I’d head to Montreal on the occasional weekend to seek out great food and great funk and I found tonnes of it. Thankfully, loads of the stuff I’ve got on vinyl is now showing up on youtube.com. So each Friday I’ll share a little tune with you so you can be not only a foodfunk.ca reader, but a listener too. It just makes sense, if you ask me.

So this week, I’ve chosen Bobby Byrd’s “I Know You Got Soul”. This assertion from the James Brown sideman was recorded and released as a 45 rpm single on King Records in 1971. It’s been sampled a lot, most famously by Eric B and Rakim for their classic old school hip hop tune “I Know You Got Soul” from 1987, but the original I think stands the test of time better than any of the tunes that were inspired by it. This one still gets regular play in my DJ sets and I can’t see that stopping any time soon. Turn up the volume, get on down, I know you got soul.