Various Artists - Country Funk Vol. 3 1975-1982 (Various Artists)

Various Artists - Country Funk Vol. 3 1975-1982 (Various Artists)The horse still bucks, the band still funks, and well The fire still burns. That's right Country Funk is back. In the summer of 2012, a new sound blew in from the dusty desert. It was a sound difficult to pin down, to codify; a sound that, like some wild horse, resisted one's grasp. But this was no trend, no flash in the pan movement, no shotgun marriage of styles, no ma'am. This sound went back decades, back to the latter half of the 1960s and early

Built around a classic front line of trombone and clarinet

"SuperWoman"

but we don't think it's too much of a stretch to assume it might well be yet another incarnation of Gerhard Narholz's

The Flaming Lips take on Pink Floyd’s iconic Dark Side of the Moon in this bold and experimental reimagining

It features guest appearances from Luniz

Sonically intense and layered

originally released in November 1979

and not being able to express myself authentically because of that

Loudermilk's "Bad News

Bill Baize

but recorded live in studio

The Southern states musical giants have always had their own distinct recipe for American roots: spiced with jazz