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Newer people[edit]

I think Vulfpeck, Childish Gambino, Bruno Mars, Anderson Paak, Lizzo should be mentioned. Xrockerboy (talk) 03:51, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cold Blood[edit]

I would like to urge the authors/editors of the Funk article to include mention of the San Francisco band Lydia Pense & Cold Blood. They are chronicled in Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Blood_(band). Besides sharing musicians with and complimenting the Oakland band Tower of Power, Cold Blood has been innovative in their own right. Their album Thriller (1973 - no relation to Michael Jackson's album of the same name), in particular, features several notable tracks, including an excellent cover of Stevie Wonder's You Are the Sunshine of My Life. The lead track - Baby I Love You - starts with exactly the kind of guitar/keyboard/bass/drum syncopated groove that the Funk article cites as a hallmark of the Funk genre, with the bass, in particular, playing multiple notes of the pattern on the offbeat eighth notes. The track Feel So Bad is astonishing - perhaps the only recording of a blues in which the downbeat is not on 1. Cold Blood puts it on the "and" of 4 of the previous measure - an anticipatory syncopation that compels the listener's hand, elbow, shoulder, hip, and knee to slip, in the classic way that makes funk so danceable. After an initial disorientation, the effect of this marvelous early downbeat is irresistible. And, of course, there are the horns. Some of us consider horns to be not just a common funk element but a defining one. Cold Blood's horns are tight and expressive. Lydia Pense, herself, deserves mention in the Women of Funk section. She delivers consistently strong performances, clearly leading and defining the band's sound. If the authors/editors of the Funk article have not sampled the Cold Blood body of work, I strongly suggest that they do so and include the band on the basis of musical quality, rather than fame or popularity. Ebuchter50 (talk) 23:31, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]