Mickey & The Soul Generation (Deep Funk) - 2013 Complete Mickey & the Soul Generation (FLAC)

Mickey & The Soul Generation - 2013 The Complete Mickey & the Soul Generation (FLAC)

"Get down brother, get down...

Artist: Mickey & The Soul Generation
Title: Iron Leg - The Complete Mickey & the Soul Generation
Year of Release: 2013 (Cali-Tex Records)
Recorded: Late 1960's
Genre: Deep Funk
Format: FLAC

Wikipedia:
Mickey & the Soul Generation were a funk band from San Antonio, Texas. The group formed in the late 1960s in the midst of the Texas funk scene which consisted mostly of locally and regionally known bands but which was extraordinarily prolific (and known today mostly through hip hop sampling and reissues on labels such as Jazzman Records).

Allmusic:
"Mickey and the Soul Generation are my favorite funk band," declares Josh "DJ Shadow" Davis in his impassioned and surprisingly heartfelt liner notes to Iron Leg. On the one hand, it seems like pure hyperbole -- the group's music is excellent, make no mistake but there's no ground here that wasn't traversed earlier and more memorably by funk outfits both far more notable and far more obscure. But sometimes it's about more than just the music and as Davis' liners detail, his transformation from Mickey fan to musicologist to cheerleader affected him deeply -- fascinated after discovering the single "Iron Leg" on a compilation he graduated from collecting the band's records to tracking down the members themselves eventually organizing a reunion and even this CD. And in the sense that Davis' career has in large part been built around his uncommon flair for rediscovering and reconfiguring music once consigned to cut-out bins, Iron Leg is as much as definitive overview of an obscure funk band as it is the ultimate DJ Shadow homage -- it's music so good, so insistent, that it needs none of his scratching or mixing to make it better.


Track List:
CD1
1. Iron Leg
2. Football
3. Up The Stairs and Around the Bend
4. Give Everybody Some
5. Joint Session
6. Live Demo - Hey, Brother Man
7. The Whatzit
8. Get Down Brother
9. Mystery Girl
1. Message From a Black Man

CD2
1. Chocolate
2. How Good is Good
3. We Got to Make a Change
4. Soulful Sickness
5. U.F.O.
6. Hey, Brother Man
7. Southern Fried Funk (1st Movement)
8. Southern Fried Funk (2nd Movement)
9. U.F.O. (Demo)
1. Listen (To The Cry Of The People)

CD3
1. The Get Down (Live)
2. Working On Your Love (Live)
3. Help (I Need Your Love) (Live)
4. Why You Wanna Leave Me (Live)
5. Life's A Mystery (Live)
6. Hey, Brother Man (Demo)

Personnel:
Gilbert Rivera - Bass
Andrew Gordon - Drums
George Salas - Guitar
Mickey Foster - Organ
Johnny Hooks - Tenor sax
Emil Carter - Vocals, sax
Harvey Edmerson - Drums
Charles Johnson - Vocals
Chris Urrutia - Drums

...Rap on brother, rap on"