Shattered Dreams Funky Blues 1967-78/ Various - Shattered Dreams Funky Blues 1967-78 / Various2011 collection. As Soul became the music of black America in the late '60s, the Blues had to adapt to survive. For those who could, playing to the white Rock crowd was an attractive option, but in hundreds of sweaty, run down clubs in cities and towns across the U. S., an older urban black audience was still there to be entertained. Blues musicians made a few concessions to the age, added Funk licks and a few Soul screams and created some seriously

the texture is sometimes so bare that to convey it's tenderness you have to sustain it with great fervour

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Now nearing the 1960s

in alluring arrangements by Martin Klett

people could use that uplifting jingle-jangle sound

many of which have achieved gold and platinum status

an eclectic mix of evocative chamber music

" (Tony Watts

" In it's early days

John Field

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