Detroit Guitar Legend and original Motown ‘Funk Brother’ Dennis Coffey returns with a new album! Dennis Coffey features original material and covers of classic soul songs on which Dennis played as a session musician.
Dennis was key in bringing heavy wah wah guitar to soul and R&B during the late ’60s. The canon of classics featuring Coffey’s work is immense – from The Temptations’ Ball Of Confusion and Cloud Nine to Edwin Starr’s War and Freda Payne’s Band Of Gold, the list is a roll-call of classic soul and R&B landmarks.
As a solo artist, Coffey is perhaps best known for a series of rare groove classics during the early ‘70s including the million-selling breakbeat staple Scorpio and soundtrack to cult action flick Black Belt Jones. Alongside producer Mike Theodore, his ‘70s ‘Theo-Coff’ productions and his prolific guitar work ranged from raw funk to classic disco, including CJ & Co’s Devil’s Gun and The Sylvers’ Boogie Fever.
For 2011, Dennis Coffey’s new self-titled album is a revelation, a dense, fuzz-heavy haze of incendiary psychedelic soul. Much of the set recalls the sentiments of earlier solo work such as his seminal, trippy Hair ’N’ Thangs album. For these sessions, in addition to a host of new compositions, Coffey personally cherry-picks tracks upon which he first appeared and enlists an illustrious guest list for all-new interpretations. Stones Throw’s new soul hero Mayer Hawthorne takes up The Parliaments’ poignant mid-tempo swayer All Your Goodies Are Gone, Fanny Franklin from killer Hollywood funk combo Orgone voices a new version of Wilson Pickett’s psych-soul jam Don’t Knock My Love.
Tracklist
1. 7th Galaxy
2. Don’t Knock My Love feat. Fanny Franklin
3. All Your Goodies Are Gone feat. Mayer Hawthorne
4. I Bet You feat. Mick Collins of Dirtbombs and Rachel Nagy
5. Miss Millie feat. Kings Go Forth
6. Somebody’s Been Sleeping feat. Lisa Kekaula
7. Plutonius
8. Knockabout
9. Only Good For Conversation feat. Paolo Nutini
10. Space Traveller
11. Don’t Knock My Love (Part 2)
