# Can we fill this mix tape? Funky soul food! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819 "2011-09-27T23:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/1 "2011-09-27T23:25:19Z")
It started with James Brown and his[Neck bones! Candy yams! Turnips!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJHjkS0eFHM) on Make It Funky. Which lead me to Joe Cuba’s [Cornbread, hog maws and chitterlings](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WByucDRdmXs) on Bang Bang (oh man, I looooved Fania records. Why is it so hard to find these oldies on CD?). Which lead me to [Cornbread, Hog Maws and Chitterlings](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpchp0NUU2U) by Bobby Hollaway. And then I hit a wall. Three songs aren’t enough for a mixed tape. I figured, if there was any place that could help me fill out this song list, it’d be here. Sooo. . . you got anything? ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/2 "2011-09-28T12:50:17Z")
I guess you’re going to say “Maggot Brain” doesn’t qualify? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/3 "2011-09-28T12:57:49Z")
_Give Me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer Struttin’ with Some Barbecue_ Can’t YouTube at work, but these are readily available. ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Time\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/4 "2011-09-28T14:43:03Z")
This is more blues than funk, but the only thing that came to mind was Robert Cray’s [Chicken in the Kitchen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhSBFHwsr1s). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/5 "2011-09-28T14:58:52Z")
Jimmy Smith’s [Back At the Chicken Shack](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkyTS_-Pqqw)? It’s jazz (and instrumental), though. But it’s Jimmy Smith! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/6 "2011-09-28T15:08:00Z")
Also more blues than funk (er, just plain blues), [Who’ll Sop My Gravy?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebq_AV6LZl0) and [Diggin’ My Potatoes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj2URM_m--0). ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/7 "2011-09-28T15:25:12Z")
Well, I presume you’d want Tony Joe White’s “[Polk Salad Annie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRF24LY5pvw)”. Then there’s Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man”. I love the [version he did on _Headhunters,_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo5GcYeh7XA) but it has no lyrics. Jon Hendricks wrote lyrics to it; here’s [his version.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1paLa5CVs8) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/8 "2011-09-28T15:44:17Z")
[Cornbread, Fish and Collard Greens](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zU1pgdskbY) - Anthony Hamilton [Hominy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPk-cKfu4GQ) - Will Sessions (instrumental) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/9 "2011-09-28T16:03:56Z")
Thanks guys! I knew you wouldn’t let me down. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/10 "2011-09-28T16:16:44Z")
How about [Chicken Gravy and Biscuits](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bEKLV0gUh0) by Lil Ed and the Blues Imperials? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/11 "2011-09-28T16:19:50Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Jimmy Smith’s [Back At the Chicken Shack](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkyTS_-Pqqw)? It’s jazz (and instrumental), though. But it’s Jimmy Smith! Play it with Amos Milburn’s _Chicken Shack Boogie_! You can even eat the last part that went over the fence! (And have some _Alligator Wine_, courtesy of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.) ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/12 "2011-09-29T04:14:47Z")
Well, you need some drink to go with that so Funky Cold Medina by (take your pick but i prefer Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers). ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/13 "2011-09-29T07:33:29Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > I guess you’re going to say “Maggot Brain” doesn’t qualify? Who says a funk band can’t play rock! ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/14 "2011-09-29T07:40:55Z")
Seriously, “Actual Proof,” by Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters. “Haw-Right Now” by Patrice Rushen. “What is Funk” by Tower of Power (with the great Chester Thompson on Hammond) ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/15 "2011-09-29T07:47:24Z")
Album “Alligator Boogaloo” by Lou Donaldson with Dr. Lonnie Smith on Hammond. Funk extreme. I heard someone say the way he got that scream off the Hammond was because it was broken, but DLS is such the master, I’m not sure he didn’t do something I can’t explain. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/16 "2011-09-29T15:50:54Z")
“[Red Beans](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CMz9WX1pfI)” by Professor Longhair “[Saturday Night Fish Fry](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1QfXQakX2w)” by Louis Jordan ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/17 "2011-10-01T21:29:17Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > “What is Funk” by Tower of Power (with the great Chester Thompson on Hammond) Stupid asshole. Obviously, it’s “What Is Hip,” and, less obviously, the tune I was going for was “Squib Cakes,” which has a rare appearance by Chester Thompson (or most anyone of the jazz tradition, outside of a church) playing full pedals on a Hammond. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/18 "2011-10-02T01:11:26Z")
How about some [Fried Neckbones And Some Homefries](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ7ZHTLf4Og) with Willie Bobo. And of course you’ll need a little “[Soul Sauce](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-M1teNsDT4&feature=related)” from Cal Tjader. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/19 "2011-10-02T02:00:53Z")
Not entirely sure if it counts, but how about some [Texas Cookin’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAtmhPUAg4U)with ol’ Guy Clark? Or Junior Brown’s [Catfish and Collard Greens](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kzswXWu98s) (this was the only youtube vid I could find for this song. sorry) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819/20 "2011-10-02T06:17:33Z")
How about a large serving of King Curtis’ “[Memphis Soul Stew](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VN-hXjA_hU&feature=related)”? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-fill-this-mix-tape-funky-soul-food/597819.md?page=2)