My favorite of theirs is Grazin' but i think i had seen that one posted somewhere else so im sticking with this one. i dont know what happened with the images, but now that theyre uploaded i dont want to bother rotating them and re-uploading.
Here's a nice record by the Canadian-born artist Eric Mercury. After recording this album, he put out a couple records on the Stax subsidiary, Enterprise. I've got both of those too, I'll post them eventually.
During the 60's, David Porter was one half of the highly successful Stax writing team of Hayes/Porter (Isaac Hayes was the other half.) This album is one of three that he recorded for Stax as a performer after his split with Ike, and it's probably the best of the bunch -- even if it is a strangely baroque mixture of dialogue, sound effects, and straight out soul singing. The album includes Porter's legendary "I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over", which has been sampled many times, plus the tracks ""Human", "Pretty Inside", "Storm In the Summertime", "When You Have To Sneak", and "If I Give It Up, I Want It Back"I'm Afraid the Masquerade is Over has been sampled by gza's 'duel of the iron mics' and biggies 'who shot ya?'
dusty groove says:A funky masterpiece from Bill Cosby -- hardly the sort of record you might expect from all of his years on mainstream TV! This set was cut back when Bill was a much hipper cat on the LA scene -- and it was the start of a brief all-instrumental run with his Badfoot Brown ensemble -- a group who's not named in the notes on the record, but who offer up some seriously funky grooves! Bill supposedly plays keyboards himself -- some really mad electric piano that's often repetitive, cyclical, and really hypnotic -- a tripped-out style that's more funk than jazz, and which is easily one of the best parts of the record. But the rhythms are great too -- equally hypnotic, and build up from bass, organ, guitar, and this whomping sort of drum part -- echoing strongly in the background and really bringing a spooky feel to the set. Side one includes the amazing "Martin's Funeral" -- sampled famously by Tribe Called Quest, and a 15 minute jam that's inspired by the funeral of Martin Luther King. Side two features "Hybish Shybish", an even longer track that's sort of an improvised jazz game -- and which features tripped-out instrumental trading that's simply amazing. The whole record is really mindblowing -- a messed-up jam session that's well worth the legend that's been built up around it over the years -- and we're hard-pressed to think of another album like it! And as a special bonus, the package features these really long notes written by Bill Cosby himself -- words that are as unusual as the music, and a side of him that's hardly been shown again
