Dennis Coffey - Big City Funk: Original Old School Breaks & Heavy Guitar Soul

It's about time. Guitarist and second generation Motown Funk Brother Dennis Coffey was a serious cornerstone of the Motown sound in the latter half of the 1960s and early '70s. That distorted, raw, compressed wah wah freaky funk thang you hear on The Temptations' "Cloud Nine" is his. The 15 sides that make up this comp on the venerable Vampi-Soul imprint are culled from the Sussex recordings he cut between 1971 and 1974 when he left to record the soundtrack to the Blackbelt Jones blaxploitation flick. Read More