Here is an interesting story (from the Austin Chronicle) about how 60s TEXAS FUNK is making an improbable comeback:
Texas funk comp release from London- based Jazzman Records featured in Austin Chronicle
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Sometimes you have to cross an ocean to find something good in your own back yard. Such is the case with Texas Funk, released last fall on London- based Jazzman Records. Archiving 20 obscure Lone Star funk sides (and one from nearby Shreveport) from the late Sixties and early Seventies, Texas Funk unearths a largely unknown stratum of Texas music history. Funk sprouted forth as an adjunct to Southern soul in the mid-Sixties with James Brown hits like "Papas Got a Brand New Bag." Down in New Orleans, the Meters tapped the essential groove with polyrhythmic exercises like "Sophisticated Cissy," while in Houston, Archie Bell & the Drells gave lessons on a new dance called the "Tighten Up." Although it was the T.S.U. Toronados and not the Drells backing Bell on the actual record, "Tighten Up" topped both the pop and R&B charts in 1968.
more via https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2003-05-16/159780/
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