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Fred Wesley & The JB’s – Damn Right I Am Somebody (LP Reissue) [Get On Down GET54069]

£24.99

  • Damn Right I’m Somebody
  • Blow Your Head
  • I’m Payin’ Taxes, What Am I Buyin’?
  • Same Beat (Part 1)
  • If You Don’t Get It The First Time, Back Up & Try It Again, Party
  • Make Me What You Want Me To Be
  • Going To Get A Thrill
  • You Sure Love To Ball

 

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Fred Wesley & The JB’s – Damn Right I Am Somebody (LP Reissue) [Get On Down GET54069]

 

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 evocative cover 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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