Tim Green - "Got More Love"
Stephen Whynott - "What Have You Seen"
February Montaine - "Seven Letters"
Gil De Ray - "Something About Nothing"
Robin Frederick - "Night Blooming Thing"
Bobbi Keith - "Give Me Time"
Jeff Outterman - "Beside You"
Kirk Edwards - "Provincetown"
Soapstone - "You Brighten Up My Day"
Jerry Thomas - "Love Strain"
Janelle Richey - "Rainy Day Dreams"
Dave Smith & Judy Dinning - "Sail Far"
Franciscus Henri - "Friendship"
Tom Wasinger - "Montse'gur'"
Siren - "Take It If You Try"
Rhythm & Bliss - "Love Is The Sun"
Robert Carlton - "Going All The Way"
Roger Ekman - "Motivationen Maste Vara Stor"
Heaven & Earth - "Feel The Spirit"
Review: The little known folk-funk genre does what it says on the tin. Here on this third volume in a wonderful series so far, compilation curator Paul Hilery does a fine job of portraying the best obscurios in the style, salvaging the very best of such flukily serene funk music and its stylistic cognates. Classic cuts from unlikely celestials such as Tim Green and Jeff Outterman are paired with case examples of neo-psychedelia, vocal raga, soft rock, and trip-hop, at once stretching the very furthest definitional corners of the term "funk" while making for a shimmering trip. Bobbi Keith's 'Give Me Time' has to be the highlight, coming agogo with chord-soaked backings and pealing electric piano, as Keith's nearly genderless voice flits over the mix.
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