Willie Max easily hold their own against R&B girl crews like Allure, Total, and Destiny's Child. Bona Fide, indeed.
Bona Fide,Willie Max,Motown / Pgd,Pop,R&B,Soul/R & B,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues,Urban
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Soul Lounge
Bona Fide Manufacturer: Heads Up ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000AQKUAY Release Date: 2005-09-27 |
Tracks:
- Bona Fide Club
- Funk Box
- Soul Lounge
- Girard's
- Midnight Train
- The Journey
- Bromo Tower
- Deep Chill
- 23rd Of May
- B. More Knights
- Rosebank Gang
Customer Reviews:
This is the real deal.......2007-07-03
TLC - Madison, AL.......2006-07-25
Finger Snapping Jazz.......2006-05-01
A Must Have.......2006-04-03
If you like a mellow funky groove you will like this CD. Great for cruisin' in the car. Summer's coming this will sound good playing in your ride.
The Boys Are Back!.......2006-03-02
Lots of energy and bass heavy riffs like Royal Function, but a somewhat more reflective mood overall. They even work in some new age synths in a couple places. If you're someone who likes cruising through the city at night, Soul Lounge is music that'll sweeten the drive for you.
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Royal Function
Bona Fide Manufacturer: Encoded Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000IPYY Release Date: 1999-05-18 |
Tracks:
- High Street
- Route 40 West
- X Ray Hip
- Never Say Goodbye
- The Avenue
- T Bone
- Royal Function
- Divine
- The 2 O'Clock Club
- Mo Diddley
- Natty Boh
- The Hippo
Customer Reviews:
AWESOME!.......2005-11-03
WOW!.......2004-05-16
The earlier reviewers are very astute - this is pure, beautiful, fun, lively MUSIC first and jazz/funk etc second - no gimmicks, pretentious, self-important show-off BS here - only what the composers felt made sense musically and tasteful.
The piano, the arrangments are all lush, deep, rich, elegant -gorgeous. The saxophone - where used - is equally tasteful - it is played the way it is meant to be - not the irritating way that seems to be on radio all the time of late. This is one serious group and one serious set of composers - I've heard a wide range of music - this ranks among the very best - truly a great find! I hope they can continue in this vein for a while before the inspiration dries-up.
The pluses are many - lots of music here - it may take you a while to appreciate all of it - but well worth it.
My feeling is that they could have done a better job of ordering (sequencing) the numbers - but that's one nit.
Here's my assessment - see below for description of the grades
1. High Street A+
2. Route 40 West A
3. X-ray Hip A+
4. Never say goodbye B+
5. The Avenue A
6. T Bone B+
7. Royal Function B - why is this the CD title?
8. Divine A+ (it is DIVINE - how appropriately named!)
9. The 2 O'clock club A
10. Mo Diddley B+
11. Natty Boh B+
12. The Hippo B+
OVERALL - A+ (3 A+, 3 As, 5 B+, 1 B amazing consistency here)
A+ - worth the CD price alone; will make your all-time lists
A - almost worth the CD price alone
B+ - very good pieces - perhaps A's on other CDs; on this CD
they fall short of being truly great (perhaps due to the
tough comparisons here)
funky as you wanna be!! go on wit your funky baddself!!.......2003-07-12
A groovy CD!.......2002-11-19
Sweet and sour.......2001-12-31
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The Poe House
Bona Fide Manufacturer: Encoded Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005RKUT Release Date: 2001-11-20 |
Tracks:
- Club Charles
- Willie Don
- The Poe House
- El Dorado
- It's Love
- Low Rider
- Blaze
- The Horse You Came In On
- The Block
- Nevermore
- Schmoke
- Tio Pepe
- Goose
Customer Reviews:
Not Bona Fide.......2004-09-26
Any resemblance to the previous excellent CD "Royal Function" is purely coincidental - the group seems to have changed its core approach - they have traded in their million $ piano and keyboard sound for a cheapskate shrill saxophone sound. why they chose to do this - the only explanation that I can suggest - is they sold out to "commercialism".
This CD does not come close to their outstanding "Royal Function" CD. If they could "revert" back to their lush, gorgeous, piano sound - they could do wonders.
Overall, a very disappointed fan. Hope they can put their "Bona Fide Horns" on the back-bench and put their superstar piano/xylophone/keyboards front and center where they belong.
BONA FIDE DOES BALTIMORE PROUD.......2004-05-28
year and took a group of jazz buffs for dinner. Thanks
to our local Jazz station "The Wave"- who sponsored the evening.
We loved every minute. Kevin Levi shines and all the
guys project a love of the music they are playing. I bought
20 cc of this disc and left them with every lounge manager
in Las Vegas. Buy this disc ladies - you can exercise to
the beat..... or boogie cheek to cheek..
Bona Fantastic.......2004-05-11
Like a good thing, I just cannot get enough of the cuts on this masterpiece! And listening to "Nevermore" is a piano, saxy, and southern guitar-licken good tinged ride....truly Bona Fide!
NICE HOMEGROWN JAZZY FUNK!!.......2003-04-11
too much sax.......2003-03-26
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Bona Fide
Willie Max Manufacturer: Motown ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000DC4E Release Date: 1999-03-23 |
Tracks:
- I'm Not Your Girlfriend
- Play Thang
- Can't Get Enough
- Bona Fide
- Never Comin' Back
- Duddy
- Color Me You
- Everything
- Sukie Sukie
- Always
- 24
- Just Believe
Customer Reviews:
Bonafide.......2004-03-19
Uninteresting.......2003-12-23
I'm feelin' it.......2001-06-05
It's not that bad.......1999-10-16
never comin' back........1999-04-08
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Bona Fide
The Gibson Brothers Manufacturer: Sugarhill [Country] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00008BRB0 Release Date: 2003-03-11 |
Tracks:
- The Open Road
- Arleigh
- Ragged Man
- Railroad Line
- That Bluegrass Music
- Vern's Guitar
- Where Nobody Knows My Name
- Shucking The Corn
- Don't Forget The Coffee, Billy Joe
- Whisper In My Ear
- Norma
- Beautiful Brown Eyes
- The Lighthouse
Customer Reviews:
THESE GUYS ARE GREAT!!.......2007-05-07
It took me two or three listens.........2005-09-24
Their sister joins them on one song 'The Lighthouse' prominently and I believe it's her in the background on others. A fair singer herself, she fits in the 'allowed to waver and warble a bit' category of bluegrass singers. Which is JUST fine!
While perhaps not to the caliber of some other bluegrass musicians, this album contains some really enjoyable original and traditional melodies. 'Norma', 'Beautiful Brown Eyes', and 'Vern's Guitar' are my favorites. 'Vern's Guitar gets me crying each and every time. *dabs eyes*
It's worth checking out, definetly.
Best of the CA Grass Valley Fest (2004).......2004-07-12
The songs on this CD are ALL top notch. Normally, CD's contain a couple of good songs and the rest aren't up to snuff. But with Bona Fide, I listen from front to back everytime. This said, don't miss "Railroad Line" and "Vern's Guitar" which bring shivers to me.
I also had the pleasure of chatting with the group for an hour or so, discussing everything from Yosemite to Bears. Really nice, thoughful and articulate guys. This is a 10 star CD. (PS I only review CD's that are 5 or higher...there are just too many of the others)
awesome new bluegrass.......2004-02-19
Excellent stuff.......2004-01-30
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Jungle Rot plus 3 bonus tracks
George Brigman Manufacturer: Bona Fide Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000CAKVCU Release Date: 2005-06-11 |
Tracks:
- Part Time Lover
- I Can't Help the Way I Feel
- Vacation
- Blowin' Smoke
- Animal Dope
- I Can Hear the Ants Dancin'
- Jazzma
- Clap Trap
- I'd Like to Tie a Knot Around Your Mother's Thorat
- Mu Cherie
- Lazy Eyes
- Smyphony in Effigy
- Driftin'
- Sweet Sweet Bulbs
- Truth
- And Then Came the Rains [#]
- Jim Jam [#]
- Iran in Japan
- Spaced
Customer Reviews:
It All Started With A Trip To The Flea Market.......2006-01-04
that I saw a guy, who I later found out was Rick Noll of Bona Fide Records fame, hawking at a record show when it was first released , and a story Paul Cachola, the drummer from my old band Blunt Force Trauma, had told me about seeing this guy's band rehearse around the corner from his house and a song they played called "I Can Hear The Ants Dancin'", inspired by watching ants vibrating on a basement shelf due to the the volume of their playing in a druggy haze. However I was unaware that George Brigman had released anything as far back as 1975, the date on the back of this LP I was holding.
I paid one dollar for the album, took it home and put it on the turntable. Wow, what noisy vinyl. The first phase shifted guitar riff of the title cut blasted through my speakers. The vocals kicked in, poorly recorded and phasey sounding, like one too many overdubs. The drumming reminded me of Black Sabbath, the vocals were like Iggy Pop. The whole thing sounded like it was recorded in a cave on a cassette deck. The next cut "DMT" was even darker, again with Iggy like vocals straight out of the book of Funhouse. I said man this is recorded like crap, but boy are there some cool ideas here. I didn't know anyone in Baltimore was making this kind of music in 1975 amongst the wasteland of commercial rock and disco cover band hell!!! I listened to "DMT" some more thinking ,"is that a harmonica off in a distant bathroom or some poor animal dying in a tarpit in the stone age".
The album played on,"Don't Bother Me", was more traditional 60's garage with a sneering Mick Jagger like vocal, and was followed by a spooky, reverby ballad with slide guitar, "Schoolgirl". Side one ended with a murky blues rocker "I've Got To Know", with excellent slide guitar playing.
I flipped it over and the crackly vinyl was almost as loud as the opening riff of "I Feel Alright" (no, not The Damned's '77 remake of Iggy's "1970", but an original song, same title two years earlier).A quiet almost jazzy instrumental with congas, "T.S" followed (T.S. McPhee I thought?, naw this is Stoogeaphilia all the way on this disc, is he a Groundhogs fan ? It turns out yes!). Another quieter tune, "Worrying" an introspective sounding ballad follows. Then comes maybe the weirdest track on the album, the very trippy "It's Misery". What is he saying beneath the fuzztone guitar riff and off kilter rhythm that sounds like the drummer is having a hard time playing ? Then a loose blues tune,"I'm Married Too",sung by someone else, slightly off key, very Replacements like(circa Hootenanny LP era)ends the album.
It was very(unbelievably !)lo-fi. How could anyone have released a recording this raw ? I was fascinated and listened to it three more times completely before band practice. At the bar after rehearsal, it was all I could talk about. I was hooked. This record was fascinating, but not in a pretty way. It was like the bathroom mold you were afraid of cleaning but had to keep looking at. Or was it like one of those old Blind Lemon Jefferson blues 78's from the 20's ? Didn't matter, I was hooked . I needed to find out more about Jungle Rot and the genius who made it.
While surfing the web in 2000, I stumble upon a review of the Colorsound Wah pedal written by who ???? George Brigman???
There is an e-mail address; hoping it is still valid I try to
contact him, asking "are you the same guy who made Jungle Rot?
Next day I get a response with his phone number. I call, we hook up at his house, we start recording, about 40 songs in a year or so.
We are almost ready to release this new material five years later.
Look for it!!! It kicks!!! It's the best he's ever done. Jungle Rot is out on CD officially for the first time with bonus tracks recorded by George's Hogwash band in 1976 !
It all started with a trip to the flea market....
Dazed & Confused.......2005-12-10
For those who don't know what this is, it's pure Grunge well before phrase was coined. Long before the advent of acts like Dinosaur Jr. or Nirvana. Here The Stooges meet low-fi Cream with a little Blue Cheer tossed in for good measure. The title track is a pure slab of teenage lust.A rank, hot urban summer night with an unforgettable riff. On the eerie, "School Girl" you don't know whether he's stoned in the back of the school bus dreaming about her, or simply left her for dead in some abandoned basement. Without a doubt, Brigman's growl brings a young Iggy Pop to mind. Only more sedated. What makes this stand apart from the Stooges is Brigman's self-taught originality. The end effect is an astonishingly vivid portrait of Nixon era urban decay buried beneath the stoned haze of apathy & boredom. A virtual Teenage Wasteland, who's still living in your parent's basement. Takes you back to a 1974 you can see, hear, taste & smell. Not to be missed. [...]
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Bona Fide
Psychedelic Breakfast Manufacturer: Sonance ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00008DKB5 Release Date: 2003-03-18 |
Tracks:
- Drunk Monk Bar
- Great Big Fiery Ball in the Sky
- Wild Pack of Asscracks
- Escher's Etchings Part 1
- Escher's Etchings Part 2
- Cosmic Spaceway Rhyme
- Spunk
- 23 (Drum Solo)
- Hot 'Lanta
- Rufus
- Food for Thought
- Taboo or Not Taboot
Album Description
Bona Fide marks the third release for up and coming jam band Psychedelic Breakfast. The band, known for exploring the roots of funk, jazz, reggae and rock, and blending it into a volatile mix, showcase their efforts on this new live CD. Psychedelic Breakfast's unbridled talent shines through on the hour long romp recorded in Northampton, MA on September 14, 2002. Their mastery is highlighted by guitarist Tim Palmieri's virtuoso chops and drummer Adrian Tramontano's deft rhythms. Expanding on last year's appearances at South by Southwest, and festivals like High Sierra and Berkfest, Psychedelic Breakfast is expected to tour throughout the year playing clubs, theaters and summer festivals. Bona Fide is essential listening in the jam band genre, and for anyone with a appreciation for skilled musicianship.Customer Reviews:
A Bona Fide Jam.......2007-02-06
Favorite stereo album.......2003-12-24
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Hawaiian Holiday
The Haoles Manufacturer: Bona-Fide Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000KHPMP6 |
Product Description
Tracks: Some Enchanted Evening, Because, Hawaiian Holiday, Megeve, I Love Paris, Love Song of Kalua, I'm Still Walking, Blues in the Night,Blacksmith Blues, Lover's Luau, Fa Subito/ It Had to be Tonight, And soto Bed, Driftin' and Dreamin', I'm Into Something Good, Thru The Void, Working on aPat Boone Thing, Clair De Lune
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Jesus Loves The Left
Left Manufacturer: Bona Fide Records/Revolver ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000HT3C2W Release Date: 2006-08-11 |
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More Bona Fide Bluegrass & Mountain Music
Various Artists Manufacturer: Bmg Marketing ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006JYBK Release Date: 2002-10-08 |
Tracks:
- Indian War Whoop (Country Dance) - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers
- You Are My Sunshine - The Pine Ridge Boys
- Go Easy Blues - The Prairie Ramblers
- Freight Train Moan - Arthur Smith Trio
- I'm Comin' Back But I Don't Know When - Charlie Monroe and His Kentucky Pardners
- Bringin' in the Georgia Mail - Charlie Monroe and His Kentucky Pardners
- Chalk Up Another One - Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers
- Nobody Cares (Not Even You) - The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
- Windy Mountain - The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
- Lonesome Road Blues - Bluegrass Banjo Pickers (Osborne Brothers)
- The Little Old Lonesome Little Circle Song - John Hartford
- May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight, Mister - McPeak Brothers
- My Little Cabin Home on the Hill - Lester Flatt and Bill Monroe
- Will You Be Loving Another Man - Lester Flatt and Bill Monroe
- Head Over Heels in Love - Lester Flatt
- Over The Hills to the Poorhouse - Lester Flatt and Mac Wiseman
- The Bluebirds Singing for Me - Lester Flatt and Mac Wiseman
- Fastest Grass Alive - The Osborne Brothers
Customer Reviews:
Diamonds in the rough.......2002-12-23
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