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Women of Funk When discussing funk music, genres and comparibles...women seem to get left out of the picture in a mostly male dominated genre of music. Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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Betty Davis & Chaka Khan always come to mind. | |
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Vicki Anderson Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. |
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Brides of Funkenstein Belita Woods | |
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N'Dea Davenport Yvonne Fair You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Thank you guys! I wanna do a podcast featuring these ladies. I think it will be fun Straight Jacket Funk Affair
Album plays and love for vinyl records. | |
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Godmoma Lady Miss Kier Erykah Badu
if it was just a dream, call me a dreamer 2 | |
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Nikka Costa is another funky lady. I was listening to Cantneverdidnothin the other day, she has Wendy, Lenny, and a few other funky guests. if it was just a dream, call me a dreamer 2 | |
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I'd like to add Dawn Silva to the list. Does anybody have her album "All My Funky Friends"? I picked it up for € 1 in a record store that was closing down and I remembered seeing her live in Den Haag when they had the North Sea Heats The Hague festival which was all sorts of open air gigs in the center of the city in the days before the North Sea Jazz Festival. The album is real old school P Funk.
By the way, Women of Funk would be a great name for an all female funk band. Imagine Ida Nielsen on bass, Cindy Blackman on drums, Candy Dulfer on sax, Rosie Gaines on vocals. Not sure about the guitarist yet... [Edited 12/3/21 12:29pm] If you take any of this seriously, you're a bigger fool than I am. | |
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Oh and don't forget Ruth Copeland!!! If you take any of this seriously, you're a bigger fool than I am. | |
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. To the above, add: Parlet (Mallia Franklin, Jeanette Washington and Debbie Wright) . |
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And of course Cynthia Robinson and Jessica Cleaves... and Vicki Anderson 😃 . [Edited 12/3/21 14:42pm] |
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MeShell. Her music has mellowed out over the years, but she could funk when she wanted to. | |
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Joyce Kennedy  I'm afraid of Americans. I'm afraid of the world. | |
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spacedolphin said: Joyce Kennedy Great pick, agreed. | |
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Some good recommendations. I have to study some of these ladies, as some I never heard of Straight Jacket Funk Affair
Album plays and love for vinyl records. | |
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Lyn Collins . [Edited 12/4/21 11:31am] |
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Tina Weymouth |
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Yvonne Fair for "Let Your Hair Down" alone.
Maxayn is pretty great too, didn't see her mentioned. | |
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Love her! What's more funk than your backing band being Funkadelic?! | |
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Bernadette "Don't Slap me, I'm not in the mood" Cooper owns this thread.
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ea1313 said:
Love her! What's more funk than your backing band being Funkadelic?! Especially when you're a white girl from England. If you take any of this seriously, you're a bigger fool than I am. | |
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Val Young Mary Jane Girls Sue Ann Carwell Lynn Collins Joi [Edited 12/5/21 11:24am] Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint | |
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I probably would throw in Angela Winbush’s name too, it’s not the only thing she did but she did amazing stuff during her stint as Rene & Angela, even the guys in Rufus played in their latest album before she went solo. | |
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Teena Marie | |
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Mallia Franklin was the Queen of Funk. Hooked George Clinton up with both Bootsy and Junie. True visionary. |
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That's true I fogot about that Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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Free2BMe said: Teena Marie Teena was funkier than probably the other ladies mentioned here. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
"The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing." - Socrates | |
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kitbradley said: Free2BMe said: Teena Marie Teena was funkier than probably the other ladies mentioned here. 👏👌💯 | |
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