Artist: The Soul Searchers
Title: Salt of the Earth
Year: 1974
Label: Sussex
Format: Vinyl LP (Original)
Flwrpt Rating of this Record: 4.0/5.0
Review
For those of you who don’t know the history of Chuck Brown, and only know him as the “Godfather of Go-Go”, you’re truly missing out! Chuck went through many different genres of music before establishing that go-go sound. The 1974 release, Salt of the Earth, was a funk album…and a great one at that. You can definitely hear where he started to develop that signature “pocket groove” that he became so famous for. This album is mostly upbeat, and like many albums from the 70′s, it speaks directly to the listeners. It’s packed with monster grooves and breaks.
Check out the sound!
Funk To The Folks
Ashley’s Roach Clip
If It Ain’t Funky
Blow Your Whistle
Design
Two thumbs up! The cover has a spaced out look to it. It’s definitely interesting and parallels well with the title of the record, but it could throw off one’s interpretation. It’s very literal, but the Salt of the Earth generally refers to and interesting person, group of people, or character, generally of the lower class. So here, the artist may be using the enlarged grains of salt to represent the members in the band, there are about 8 musicians that contributed to this LP.
The 3D logo lockup is amazing. It doesn’t seem to be any specific font either, the entire cover is hand-drawn/illustrated.
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4 Comments
Go Go music is nothing but an extension of funk {music}. The pockets are just more percussion heavy. I’m so surpised that you gave Chuck the shout out. This album is pretty dope. Good post!
whoa, Whoa, WHOA!!!
I’m speechless right now…
classic record. i’m trying to remember if i did any beats off of it. i need to go dust off of my copy and give it another spin!
BTW: Sussex had some GEMS.