James Brown - Sho Is Funky Down Here (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER

Expected Release Date: 01-August-2025 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.

Sho Is Funky Down Here is the 31st studio album by American musician James Brown, originally released in 1971 on King Records, his last album on the label after having been on the label since 1956. An entirely instrumental album, full of heavy fuzzed-out guitars in a jazzy psychedelic rock style, resembling the first records by Funkadelic. Sho is Funky Down Here and The Grodeck Whipperjenny are a pair of albums that are the result of an unlikely but highly productive musical relationship between James Brown, a superstar at the creative and commercial peaks of his long career, and David Matthews, a then young arranger-musician whose limited professional experience had little or nothing to do with the funk and soul of his collaborator. James Brown – Sho Is Funky Down Here James Brown’s psychedelic album, created by his then-bandleader David Matthews, and issued at the same time as Matthews’ classic The Grodeck Whipperjenny. Underground, fuzzy, rambling psych-funk. The genesis of Brown’s “Talking Loud And Saying Nothing,” a 1990s hip hop sample staple, informing A Tribe Called Quest, Large Professor, Brand Nubian and others. Both albums were lacquered directly from the original master tapes at Capitol Studios. Contains an extensive booklet with full annotation, liner notes by Brown historian Alan Leeds and never-before-published photos.

TRACKLISTING
01. Sho Is Funky Down Here
02. Don’t Mind
03. Bob Scoward
04. Just Enough Room For Storage
05. You Mother You
06. Can Mind