Search - Willie Feaster & Mighty Magnificents :: On the Dirt Road: Rare & Unreleased Ny Funk & Soul

Rare recordings buttressed by unreleased jams from Willie Feaster's own tape stash! Includes previously unpublished photos from Feaster's collection and comprehensive liner notes by Dan Nishimoto that include Feaster's most in-depth interview. Willie Feaster and the Mighty Magnificents were one of metropolitan New York's premier working bands during the funky seventies. The pride of Jamaica, Queens, they crossed the same paths as Newark's Kool & The Gang and Harlem's Flame n' King. While the Magnificents had a hit with "Funky 8 Corners" on All Platinum (the label that preceded Sugar Hill), Feaster recorded a fair amount of material for Al Brown and his own Smog City Records. Includes the best cuts from Smog City Records, including the hip Latin rhythms of "Willie's Boogaloo" and the Kool & The Gang-inspired horn charts of "Voices (Calling So Loud)". Also features underground funk gem "Whacha Want Us to Do," a Soul Train-inspired collaboration with the Dynamic Concepts.