Keith Le Blanc, Skip McDonald and Doug Wimbish were the rhythm section that powered the Sugarhill Gang back in the early days of hip hop. In the 80s they hooked up with On-U Sound's Adrian Sherwood to create heavyweight electroid funk as TACK>>HEAD. They are more than just highly talented individual artists and absolute luminaries in their field.
They aren’t just musicians, but also producers, remixers and friends and supporters of fellow musicians. Now, after 23 years, finally there is a new album - and it almost exclusively features cover versions of artists who have inspired TACK>>HEAD.
In October 2012 the 'Funky President vs King Bee' EP was released. Was 'King Bee' (Slim Harpo composition) a part of 'Funky President' (James Brown composition) or was it the other way around? Who knows? Along with covers of The Meters, Funkadelic, David Bowie / Brian Eno, Stevie Wonder, the Ohio Players, the album also paystribute to two reggae giants - Bob Marley and Errol Dunkley - by getting them “into TACK>>HEAD shape”. As ever Bernard Fowler supplies vocals and Adrian Sherwood is the mixologist, dropping in sampled spoken word stuff from the news, documentaries etc.
TRACK LISTING
1. For The Love Of Money
2. Loose Booty
3. Higher Ground
4. King Bee
5. Just Kissed My Baby
6. Fire
7. Stealing
8. Funky President
9. I'm Afraid Of Americans
10. War
11. Black Cinderella
12. Exodus (Dub)
13. Black Cinderella (Dub)
14. Funky President (Adrian Sherwood Remix)
15. For The Love Of Money (Instrumental Version)