Funky Freedom
#RufusThomas - "Breakdown' & 'Funky Chicken' LIVE @ #WATTSTAX 1973
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KCFyKRtlLOI&feature=share

🎧 Listening to #JeanKnight's "Mr. Big Stuff" (1971) on a loop for a while, luv-ing the pulsing organ I never noticed before. Headphones.

It's a #Stax record. Some of my favorite 45s in the 70s had that yellow label.

#Stax has dropped a box-set of re-mastered music from #Wattstax (1972).

Knight had the #1 Soul Single the year before.

#music #funk #soul #70s https://youtu.be/afhMFK__ZGc

▶️ #JeanKnight didn't perform at #Wattstax. This piece from @NPR puts the historic "happening" in context and explains how it came together. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1158876105/wattstax-drew-100-000-people-this-1972-concert-was-about-much-more-than-music

🎧 Listening to #JeanKnight's "Mr. Big Stuff" (1971) on a loop for a while, luv-ing the pulsing organ I never noticed before. Headphones.

It's a #Stax record. Some of my favorite 45s in the 70s had that yellow label.

#Stax has dropped a box-set of re-mastered music from #Wattstax (1972), and I wondered if Jean knight played #Wattstax (still working on that).

She had the #1 Soul Single the year before.

#music #funk #soul #70s https://youtu.be/afhMFK__ZGc

🎧 When you subscribe to the #StaxRecords YT channel, you can be an early adopter of a just-released #RufusThomas track from the label's mondo "Live at #Wattstax" release.

"The Breakdown" (1972).

#music #funk #soul #classic #oldschool

https://youtu.be/C_ED98XHiiY

Wattstax ‘72 Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection (Stax / Craft 🌎2023)

This 12 CD collection is immense and breathtaking. #Wattstax #staxvolt

ICYMI: Watch again as we open the brand new Wattstax: The Complete Concert 10LP and discover some more very unwelcome surprises.
https://thatshelf.com/vinyl-unboxing-second-copy-craft-records-wattstax-the-complete-concert-10lp-box-set-still-a-disaster
#Wattstax #CraftRecords

Watch again as we open the brand new Wattstax: The Complete Concert 10LP and discover some more very unwelcome surprises.
https://thatshelf.com/vinyl-unboxing-second-copy-craft-records-wattstax-the-complete-concert-10lp-box-set-still-a-disaster
#Wattstax #CraftRecords

Nice wee Friday delivery 😁
#Wattstax
#NowPlayng #nowspinningonvinyl
#nowspinning
#vinyl

Soul'd Out: The Complete #Wattstax Collection.

Essential boxed set for fans of R'n'B history and Los Angeles history. Coming February. There are smaller bundles available.

#Stax #StaxRecords #Watts #LosAngeles #rnb #funk #soul

https://theseconddisc.com/2022/12/12/the-living-word-new-box-sets-chronicle-wattstax-in-full-50-years-on/

Soul'd Out: The Complete #Wattstax Collection.

Essential boxed set for fans of R'n'B history and Los Angeles history. Coming February. There are smaller bundles available.

#Stax #StaxRecords #Watts #LosAngeles #rnb #funk #soul

https://theseconddisc.com/2022/12/12/the-living-word-new-box-sets-chronicle-wattstax-in-full-50-years-on/

Something to watch, dance and feel during these days.

*Wattstax* (full #documentary (1973)

🎞️ https://invidio.us/watch?v=A_P6ZWUJIa0

"#Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by #StaxRecords to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of #Watts, #LosAngeles. The concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. The concert's performers included all of Stax's prominent artists at the time. The genres of the songs performed included #soul, #gospel, #RnB, #blues, #funk, and #jazz. Months after the festival, Stax released a double LP of the concert's highlights titled Wattstax: The Living Word. The concert was filmed by David L. Wolper's film crew and was made into the 1973 film titled, Wattstax. The film was directed by Mel Stuart and nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Documentary Film in 1974. …"

:wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattstax

#music