Friday, March 18, 2011

Speedometer - Am I Your Woman? (Featuring Ria Currie)

ORIGINATION Modern Funk: Stay On The Groove, Volume 3
RECORDED IN
2007
LAST LISTENED TO
yesterday
RATING
★★★★★

Waking up to funk is always good. This fine selection is from one of the lights in the new funk movement in the UK. Performing now for more than a decade, Speedometer here cover a hit from 1970 by the Chi-lites. This version follows in the fine funk footsteps of an answer record: where once the Chi-lites sang Are You My Woman?, here the question is turned back on the men. Incidentally, that lovely brass riff that peppers both versions of the song, was sampled from the Chi-Lites on Beyoncé's Crazy In Love, which apparently was a big hit.

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