Description
The third volume of Light in the Attic’s ongoing survey of this largely notional movement puts a new twist on the idea of combining two seemingly incompatible genres in one unruly sound.
One of the unsung qualities of Country Funk Vol. I and Country Funk Vol. II was their casual disregard for history. Documenting a scene that wasn’t really a scene and not even much of a movement, they traced a mere idea …hey, let’s combine country twang with funk rhythms across a couple dozen tracks from the late 1960s through the mid 1970s. It picks up roughly where the other two left off and follows that idea into the early 1980s. Still scrambling the timeline in its sequencing, the collection can’t help but track the changes that both country and funk but especially country-funk endured as one decade ended and the next began. Vol. III covers 1975 through 1982, a period that saw the end of outlaw country and Southern rock, the beginnings of yacht rock, and the rise and fall of disco. Some of the featured artists include TONY JOE WHITE, LARRY JON WILSON, DOLLY PARTON, DELBERT McCLINTON, RONNIE MILSAP et al.
