Blow Your Whistle: Original Old School Breaks & Classic Funk Bombs is a greatest hits album by American go-go and soul band The Soul Searchers.[1][2] The album was released on February 19, 2007 and consists of a compilation of twelve digitally remastered songs from the group's two previously released albums (We the People and Salt of the Earth).[1][3][4]
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| Released | February 19, 2007 | |||
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| Length | 53:47 | |||
| Label | Vampisoul B000M2E8LI | |||
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Track listing edit
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Blow Your Whistle" |
| 3:01 |
| 2. | "It's All in Your Mind" |
| 2:55 |
| 3. | "Think" | James Brown | 4:31 |
| 4. | "We the People" |
| 5:12 |
| 5. | "Ain’t it Heavy" | John "JB" Buchanan | 5:58 |
| 6. | "If it Ain’t Funky" | Chuck Brown | 3:56 |
| 7. | "I Rolled It, You Hold It" | John "JB" Buchanan | 4:59 |
| 8. | "Funk to the Folks" | John "JB" Buchanan | 4:15 |
| 9. | "Ashley's Roachclip" | Lloyd Pinchback | 5:35 |
| 10. | "1993" | John "JB" Buchanan | 4:41 |
| 11. | "Soul to the People" | The Soul Searchers | 2:52 |
| 12. | "Blowout" | John "JB" Buchanan | 5:54 |
| Total length: | 53:47 | ||
Personnel edit
- Chuck Brown – electric guitar, lead vocals
- John Enwell – bass guitar
- Kenneth Scoggins – drums
- Lino A. Druitt – congas, percussion
- Lloyd Pinchback – flute, saxophone, percussion
- John "JB" Buchanan – trombone, piano, synthesizer, vocals
- Hilton C. Selton Jr. – organ
- Horace Brock – organ
- Bennie Braxton – organ, vocals
- Donald Tillery – trumpet, percussion, vocals
- James Maycock – compilation assembly, liner notes
References edit
- ^ a b "Blow Your Whistle: Original Old School Breaks & Classic Funk Bombs". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ "Blow Your Whistle: Original Old School Breaks & Classic Funk Bombs". Discogs. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ Nnamdi, Kojo (February 14, 2014). "From Go-Go's Heyday to Today: One Musician's Love Affair With D.C. Music". The Kojo Nnamdi Show. WAMU.
- ^ Thompson, Dave (2001). "Part Four: The New School". Funk: Third Ear – The Essential Listening Companion (1st ed.). San Francisco: BackBeat Books. pp. 297–299. ISBN 0-87930-629-7.