WHAT IT IS!

WHAT IT IS!
FUNKY SOUL AND RARE GROOVES (2006)
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Funk emerged in the 1960s, a scorching sound that amped up the spirit of R&B and became the precursor to hip-hop. While major artists topped the charts with funk hits throughout the '60s and '70s, What It Is! celebrates the smaller ones—the heady, groove-monstrous strain of gutbucket funk that remains a major force in American music.
A four-CD, 91-track compendium that would take incalculable hours to assemble from dusty bins at disappearing record shops, What It Is! is culled mainly from the treasure-filled vaults of Atlantic, Atco, and Warner Bros. Records. It's an unprecedented shadow history of funk, pulling together rare sides from well-known artists and definitive grooves from lesser known but supremely gifted masters of the art form.

Disc 1
1. Spreadin' Honey - The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
2. Soul Finger - The Bar-Kays,
3. Shadow of Your Smile - Jack McDuff
4. Gangster of Love, Pts. 1 & 2 - Jimmy Norman
5. Memphis Train - Rufus Thomas
6. Get out of My Life Woman - Grassella Oliphant
7. Live Right Now - Eddie Harris
8. Pig Snoots, Pt. 1 - Natural Bridge Bunch
9. Soul Sound System - Wayne Henderson
10. Snatching It Back - Clarence Carter
11. Stoned Soul - Artie Christophher
12. Getting the Corners - TSU Tornadoes
13. Sexy Coffee Pot - Tony Alvon & The Belairs
14. Don't Come Around Here Anymore - Mark Putney
15. Keep on Dancing - The Commodores
16. Right on Brother, Pt. 1 - South Shore Commission
17. Pop, Popcorn Children - Eldridge Holmes
18. It's Your Thing - Cold Grits
19. It's All in Your Mind - Soul Angels
20. Funky John - Johnny Cameron & the Camerons
21. Help Me Make Up My Mind - Joyce Jones
22. Rock Me Baby - Lou Johnson
23. Sing a Simple Song - Noble Knights
24. Do You Dig It - Titus Turner
25. Funky Canyon - Phil Moore, Jr.
26. Jan Jan - Fabulous Counts
27. Tampin - The Rhine Oaks

Disc 2
1. Gossip - Cyril Neville
2. Somebody in the World for You - The Mighty Hannibal
3. Stanga - Little Sister
4. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Ananda Shankar
5. Deacon - Brute Force
6. Sookie Sookie - Don Covay & the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band
7. Right On - Clarence Wheeler & the Enforcers
8. (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go - Curtis Mayfield
9. Stepping Stones - Johnny Harris
10. I'm Just Like You - Gix
11. Funky Thing, Pt. 1 - Unemployed
12. Messie Bessie - Shirley Scott
13. Fairchild - Willie West
14. Cold Bear - The Gaturs
15. I Can't Get Next to You - Mongo Santamaria
16. Feelin' Alright - Lulu
17. Soul Bowel - The Memphis Horns
18. Tuane - Hammer
19. Take It Off, Pt. 2 - Johnny Tolbert & De Thangs
20. Seeds of Life - Harlem River Drive
21. Engine Number 9 - Wilson Pickett

Disc 3
1. Hard Times - Baby Huey & the Baby Sitters
2. What So Never the Dance, Pts. 1 & 2 - Houseguests
3. Headless Heroes - Eugene McDaniels
4. Spinning Wheel - Wade Marcus
5. Bad Tune - Earth, Wind & Fire
6. Mr. Cool - Rasputin's Stash
7. Don't Cha Hear Me Callin' to Ya - Junior Mance
8. Hang on in There - Stovall Sisters
9. Funky Nassau, Pt. 2 - The Beginning of the End
10. Whatever's Fair - Mark Holder & the Positives
11. Face It - Ed Robinson
12. Wah Wah Man - Young-Holt Unlimited
13. Rock Steady [Alternate Mix] - Aretha Franklin
14. Won't Nobody Listen - Black Haze Express
15. Goin' Down - Allen Toussaint
16. Suavecito - Malo
17. You Gotta Know Whatcha Doin' - Charles Wright
18. Mo Jo Hanna - Teri Lynn
19. Ridin' Thumb - King Curtis
20. Almendra - Macondo
21. Nuki Suki - Little Richard

Disc 4
1. Getting Uptown (To Get Down) - United B
2. 8 Days on the Road - Howard Tate
3. Moon Shadow - Labelle
4. Let It Crawl - Society's Bag
5. Wanaoh - Black Heat
6. If It Was Good Enough for Daddy - Clarence Reid
7. Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky - Claudia Lennear
8. Cosmic Sea - Mystic Moods Orchestra
9. Kissing My Love - Cold Blood
10. Flute Thing - Seatrain
11. Chug Chug Chug-A-Lug (Push N' Shove), Pt. 2 - The Meters
12. Funky to the Bone - Freddi & Henchi & the Soulsetters
13. Try It Again - Bobby Byrd
14. Teasin' - Cornell Dupree
15. (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away - Dr. John
16. Chicken Heads - Oscar Brown, Jr.
17. Rien Ne Va Plus - Funk Factory
18. Cajun Moon - Herbie Mann
19. Improve - Darrow Fletcher
20. Riding High - Faze-O
21. Four Play - Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns
22. California Dreamin' - Eddie Hazel