The tight blasts of horn riffs, the off-kilter bass line, the chugging rhythm guitar break, the wild vocal about the new breed thang,
and most of all, the beat: it is unusual that a musical genre's birth can be crystallised within the time frame of a single song, but that is the case with
funk
.
James Brown
had hinted at a new direction with his pulsing 1964 single Out of Sight.
But Papa's Got a Brand New Bag,Papa's Got a Brand New Bag,...