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[omanxl1]

The Best Songs Of 2023

Digital Crate Digging Continues as we proceed and continue on this Saturday afternoon but the science dropped is appropriate for any time frame! Check us out as we try to plant seeds in fertile soil in 2024 rebuking the ongoing mind games! Rebuking the weeds in our garden leading to the ongoing  chaos  / mayhem turmoil; we’re considered armed and dangerous for using the sound plus these poems?…

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#BarbaraTucker #DaLukas #DaveLee #discofunk #discoincorporated #Drago #FunkSoulBrothers #housemusic #KathyBrown #ODogDayParty. SaturdayAfternoon #poetry #Superlover #TheBeatles #TMarkakis

[ginnuy]

saw you changed your username and realized i didnt recognize your old one either. i don't know who you are but i follow you apparently

yeah sorry about that! eugh i think i've gone through a million names on this blog (if theo rings any bells) probably followed me because of the do it for kim meme or some other. kim related thing

doesn't help that i also roll through themes constantly but im trying to stick with this one!

#theo was the longest lasting one i think #or theodore #apologies apologies #anyways embracing funksoulbroth it feels less cringe #asks #EDIT also i disappeared around a year ago and recently showed up again so

[helmar-weiss]

Galaxy Walker & The Hoodstarz SA 17.06.2023 Regensburg

Galaxy Walker & The Hoodstarz SA 17.06.2023 Regensburg Bismarckplatz 20.30 Uhr #funk #bürgerfestregensburg2023 #galaxywalker #FunkFever #GrooveNation #FunkyBeats #PartyLikeItsFunk #GetYourGrooveOn #FunkyVibes #FunkSoulBrother #FunkItUp #BoogieNight #FunkadelicParty #FeelTheFunk #DanceToTheFunkyRhythm #FunkyGoodTime #FunkRevolution #GetDownWithTheFunk #FunkInYourSoul #FunkyFresh #GroovyJam #Funkalicious #FunkyTown

#youtube #Galaxy Walker #The Hoodstarz #Funk #Regensburg #Bürgerfest #Bismarckplatz #Funky Beats #Get Your Groove On #Funk It Up #Funk Soul Brother #Fuky Good Time #Funk Revolution #Groovy Jam #Helmar Weiß #Schlagzeug #Drums #Funky Town

[ruabadfishtoo]

With my funk soul brothers

#me #funksoulbrothers

[rottenrobot]

Rockafeller Skank (Todd Edwards Remix)

#funksoulbrother

[bobbindrawedthis]

Really enjoying @officialfatboyslim mixtapes on YouTube. Week 14 is an absolute banger. . . . @officialfatboyslim #fatboyslim #funksoulbrother #youtube #dance #mixtape #dj #normancook @woody_cook @zoetheball #illustration #vectorart #vector #illustrator (at Wymondham, Norfolk) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCDkd9fDluK/?igshid=1gleiwmv5j12l

#fatboyslim #funksoulbrother #youtube #dance #mixtape #dj #normancook #illustration #vectorart #vector #illustrator

[luxuryjones]

Felt cute. Might steal your girl later. Or start a folk band first, then steal your girl. Just gonna vibe out on it for a while 😎😎😎 #CARLOS #chillpom #funksoulbrother #areyougoingtoscarboroughfair (at Luxury Jones) https://www.instagram.com/carlosmanana/p/BwgPxHLD24t/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yuoz2j07wdve

#carlos #chillpom #funksoulbrother #areyougoingtoscarboroughfair

[dezyman]

Excited about the bookings this week taking me through to the weekend.$$ Lots of crate digging to be done for music 🎵🎧💜 #cratediggers #housemusiclovers #blackhistorymonth #blackmusicinspired #housemusicdjs #funksoulbrother (at Vancouver, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuEyrBElbKF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=u6qndigg0i30

#cratediggers #housemusiclovers #blackhistorymonth #blackmusicinspired #housemusicdjs #funksoulbrother

[blackkudos]

Johnnie Taylor

Johnnie Harrison Taylor (May 5, 1934 – May 31, 2000) was a three-time Grammy-nominated American recording artist and songwriter who performed a wide variety of genres, from blues, rhythm and blues, soul, and gospel to pop, doo-wop, and disco.

Biography

Early years

Johnnie Taylor was born in Crawfordsville, Arkansas, United States. He grew up in West Memphis, Arkansas, performing in gospel groups as a youngster. As an adult, he had one release, "Somewhere to Lay My Head", on Chicago's Chance Records label in the 1950s, as part of the gospel group Highway QCs, which had been founded by a young Sam Cooke. Taylor's singing then was strikingly close to that of Cooke, and he was hired to take Cooke's place in the latter's gospel group, the Soul Stirrers, in 1957.

A few years later, after Cooke had established his independent SAR Records, Taylor signed on as one of the label's first acts and recorded "Rome Wasn't Built In A Day" in 1962. However, SAR Records quickly became defunct after Cooke's death in 1964.

In 1966, Taylor moved to Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was dubbed "The Philosopher of Soul". He recorded with the label's house band, which included Booker T. & the M.G.'s. His hits included "I Had a Dream", "I've Got to Love Somebody's Baby" (both written by the team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter) and most notably "Who's Making Love", which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the R&B chart in 1968. "Who's Making Love" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. In 1970, Taylor married Gerlean Rocket and they remained married until his death in 2000.

During his tenure at Stax, he became an R&B star, with over a dozen chart successes, such as "Jody's Got Your Girl and Gone", which reached No. 23 on the Hot 100 chart, "Cheaper to Keep Her" (Mack Rice) and record producer Don Davis's penned "I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)", which reached No. 11 on the Hot 100 chart. "I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)" also sold in excess of one million copies, and was awarded gold disc status by the R.I.A.A. in October 1973. Taylor, along with Isaac Hayes and The Staple Singers, was one of the label's flagship artists, who were credited for keeping the company afloat in the late 1960s and early 1970s after the death of its biggest star, Otis Redding, in an aviation accident. He appeared in the documentary film, Wattstax, which was released in 1973.

Columbia Records

After Stax folded in 1975, Taylor switched to Columbia Records, where he recorded his biggest success with Don Davis still in charge of production, "Disco Lady", in 1976. It spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and six weeks at the top of the R&B chart. It peaked at No. 25 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1976. "Disco Lady" was the first certified platinum single (two million copies sold) by the RIAA. Taylor recorded several more successful albums and R&B single hits with Davis on Columbia, before Brad Shapiro took over production duties, but sales generally fell away.

Malaco Records

After a short stay at a small independent label in Los Angeles, Beverly Glen Records, Taylor signed with Malaco Records after the company's founder Tommy Couch and producing partner Wolf Stephenson heard him sing at blues singer Z. Z. Hill's funeral in spring 1984.

Backed by members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, as well as in-house veterans such as former Stax keyboardist Carson Whitsett and guitarist/bandleader Bernard Jenkins, Malaco gave Taylor the type of recording freedom that Stax had given him in the late 1960s and early 1970s, enabling him to record ten albums for the label in his 16-year stint.

In 1996, Taylor's eighth album for Malaco, Good Love!, reached number one on the Billboard Top Blues Albums chart (No. 15 R&B), and was the biggest record in Malaco's history. With this success, Malaco recorded a live video of Taylor at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas, in the summer of 1997. The club portion of the Good Love video was recorded at 1001 Nightclub in Jackson, Mississippi.

Taylor's final song was "Soul Heaven", in which he dreamed of being at a concert featuring deceased African-American music icons from Louis Armstrong to Otis Redding to Z.Z. Hill to The Notorious B.I.G., among others.

Radio

In the 1980s, Johnnie Taylor was a DJ on KKDA, a radio station in the Dallas area, where he had made his home. The station's format was mostly R&B and Soul oldies and their on-the-air personalities were often local R&B, Soul, blues, and jazz musicians. Taylor was billed as "The Wailer, Johnnie Taylor".

Death

Taylor died of a heart attack at Charlton Methodist Hospital in Dallas, Texas, on May 31, 2000, aged 66. Stax billed Johnnie Taylor as "The Philosopher of Soul". He was also known as "the Blues Wailer". He was buried beside his mother, Ida Mae Taylor, at Forrest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.

His highly complex personal life was revealed after his death. Having six accepted children and three others with confirmed paternity born to three different mothers, the difficulties associated with executing his will were presented in the TV programme, The Will: Family Secrets Revealed: The Estate of Johnnie Taylor. (Season 2, Episode 5. November 16, 2011).

Awards and nominations

Taylor was given a Pioneer Award by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1999. Taylor was also a three-time Grammy Award nominee.

Grammy Awards

Taylor has been nominated for three career Grammy Awards without a win.

Musical influence

In 2004, the UK's Shapeshifters sampled Taylor's 1982 "What About My Love?", for their No. 1 hit single, "Lola's Theme".

Discography

Albums

Wanted: One Soul Singer - Stax 715 (1967)

Who's Making Love... - Stax 2005 (1968)

Raw Blues - Stax 2008 (1968)

Rare Stamps - Stax 2012 (1968)

The Johnnie Taylor Philosophy Continues - Stax 2023 (1969)

One Step Beyond - Stax 2030 (1971)

Taylored in Silk - Stax 3014 (1973)

Super Taylor - Stax 5509 (1974)

Eargasm - Columbia 33951 (1976)

Rated Extraordinaire - Columbia 34401 (1977)

Reflections - RCA APL1-2527 (1977)

Disco 9000 - Columbia 35004 (1977)

Ever Ready - Columbia 35340 (1978)

She's Killing Me - Columbia 36061 (1979)

A New Day - Columbia 36548 (1980)

Just Ain't Good Enough - Beverly Glen 10001 (1982)

This is Your Night - Malaco 7421 (1984)

Wall to Wall - Malaco 7431 (1985)

Lover Boy - Malaco 7440 (1987)

In Control - Malaco 7446 (1988)

Crazy 'Bout You - Malaco 7452 (1989)

I Know It's Wrong But I... Just Can't Do Right - Malaco 7460 (1991)

Real Love - Malaco 7472 (1993)

Good Love! - Malaco 7480 (1996)

Taylored to Please - Malaco 7488 (1998)

Gotta Get the Groove Back - Malaco 7499 (1999)

There's No Good in Goodbye - Malaco 7515 (2003)

Live at the Summit Club - Stax/Fantasy 8628 (recorded 1972; released 2007)

FunkSoulBrother - Fuel/Universal. Retrospective album

#05/05 #05/31

[superdupermemes]

the funk soul brother. 

#fatboy slim #funksoulbrother #superdupermemes

[ginnuy]

so sorry gang for repeatedly changing my username on every single platform imaginable (not sorry) EITHER WAY updated my straw page with all the ushe info

#my username on my main blog too good nothing can top that #jamaisvuup > funksoulbroth #because funksoulbrother was taken #rat

[helmar-weiss]

Macht euch bereit, Regenstauf!

Am 18. Februar 2023, ab 20 Uhr, werden "George Johnson & The Hoodstarz" die Bühne in Tom`s Bar rocken!

Die Hoodstarz sind eine Funk-Band, die euch eine unglaubliche Show bieten wird. Mit ihrem unverwechselbaren Sound und ihrer unglaublichen Energie werden sie euch mitreißen.

Kommt vorbei und lasst euch eine Show bieten, die ihr so schnell nicht vergessen werdet! Eintrittskarten sind jetzt erhältlich!

#FunkKonzert #TomsBühne #Regenstauf #FunkMusic #FunkVibes #FunkParty #LiveKonzert #Showtime #FunkFreaks #FunkFam #FunkLove #FunkMeetsSoul #DancingAllNight #FunkLive #FunkJam #FunkLovers #FunkVibes #FunkExperience #FunkMania #FunkConcert #FunkFun #FunkGroove #FunkCity #FunkRock #FunkSoul #FunkNation #FunkSoulBrothers #FunkSoulSisters #FunkFestival

#Regenstauf #Tom´s Bühne #George Johnson #Funk #Helmar Weiß #Drums #live concert

[reimerstuff]

Not a fan of selfies, but when @jgroves is passing through Athens, Ohio I will oblige with a picture to document this sensational moment in time! Great to see you good friend! Safe travels to California... #selfiegram #morninginspiration #funksoulbrother (at Donkey Coffee)

#morninginspiration #funksoulbrother #selfiegram

[aldovanucci]

I don’t know how to turn thre pic around, or give @welikemel the filtered tan he asked for, but last night was alot of fun. @ccfunkandsoul always is. #djsnotcomplaining #funksoulbrothers https://www.instagram.com/p/BpcCkajFTvF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q9uegpyjjo75

#djsnotcomplaining #funksoulbrothers

[musssskat]

Андеграунд пати :) и #funksoulbrothers ------------------ #calligraphy #lettering #handmadefont

#funksoulbrothers #lettering #handmadefont #calligraphy

[sysbmore]

Check it out #funksoulbrothers (& sisters). TOMORROW NIGHT is #soulnightBaltimore & #LEGENDARY @wfmu badass Todd-O-Phonic Todd is BACK with local yokels Rob & Soul Call Paul for a nite of dancefloor dynamite (at Lithuanian Hall)

#soulnightbaltimore #funksoulbrothers #legendary