Fred Wesley & The JB's - Damn Right I Am Somebody (Vinyl)
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.
Tracklist:
1. Damn Right I'm Somebody
2. Blow Your Head
3. I'm Payin' Taxes, What Am I Buyin'?
4. Same Beat (Part 1)
5. If You Don't Get It The First Time, Back Up & Try It Again, Parrty
6. Make Me What You Want Me To Be
7. Going To Get A Thrill
8. You Sure Love To Ball
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.
Tracklist:
1. Damn Right I'm Somebody
2. Blow Your Head
3. I'm Payin' Taxes, What Am I Buyin'?
4. Same Beat (Part 1)
5. If You Don't Get It The First Time, Back Up & Try It Again, Parrty
6. Make Me What You Want Me To Be
7. Going To Get A Thrill
8. You Sure Love To Ball
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