THE SECRET WEAPON

If you're working for "the hardest working man in show business", a workaholic in need of an endless supply of funky grooves behind him, you have no choice other than to be a ultra tight well oiled machine. The J.B.s were, integral to James Brown's sound in the seventies, as well as Lyn Collins, Marva Whitney, Bobby Byrd and others in his funky family. This shit is tight.

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Listen:
The J.B.'s - Pass the Peas mp3 at Internet Archive
The J.B.'s - Givin' Up Food For Funk mp3 at Smiles Davis
James Brown & the J.B.'s - Doing It To Death mp3 at Frederator

A FEW FROM THE FUNKY FAMILY

There could be a genre unto itself, "Anything that James Brown so much as sniffed". Everything that came under the umbrella of James Brown's Funky People (an excellent compilation series by the way) has the indelible stamp of the GFOS. And there is a lot of it. After posting the Marva Whitney thing a couple days ago, I've been on a JB associated bender. So here's another one from her, Brown's iconic "Funky Drummer" (from the highly recommended, bordering on essential In the Jungle Groove compilation) and a few others. It's surprisingly hard to find mp3s of much of his extended funky family floating around, so after an hour of digging, I'll have to leave you with these, all bona fide jams as they are. You would do yourself well to pick up some some of those James Brown's Funky People compilations, the J.B.'s Pass the Peas compilation, or In the Jungle Groove, just for starters. He was the template.

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Listen:
Marva Whitney -Unwind Yourself mp3 at Snuhthing Anything 
James Brown - Funky Drummer mp3 at Isoamerica
The JB's - Givin' Up Food For Funk mp3 at Smiles Davis 
James Brown & the J.B.'s - Doing It To Death mp3 at Frederator
Lyn Collins - Think (About It) mp3 at Aerial Noise