Funk Overload, by Maceo Parker

Funk Overload

by Maceo Parker

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1.	Uptown Up 04:16	info	buy track
2.	Sing A Simple Song 03:38	info	buy track
3.	Maceo's Groove 05:24	info	buy track
4.	Elephant's Foot 04:19	info	buy track
5.	Let's Get It On 03:36	info	buy track
6.	Tell Me Something Good 03:40	info	buy track
7.	Youth Of The World 03:49	info	buy track
8.	We're On The Move 04:15	info	buy track
9.	Inner City Blues 04:23	info	buy track
10.	Do You Love Me 04:00	info	buy track
11.	Going In Circles 06:53	info	buy track

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Maceo Parker: Funk Overload
BY TONY GREEN
Some musicians are stylists. Others, like Maceo Parker, are styles. And despite an ample bed of laurels, the venerable funk saxman not only keeps the heat going, but occasionally conjures a curveball or two. On Funk Overload (What Are Records,War 60032, 48:18), Parker adds his vocals to his familiar funk mix. His sweaty cords ooze a southern-style, vaguely Chuck Brown-ish charm. When he gets a shot at some high-grade stuff, he, along with his crack band, flat tears things up. Besides a romance-rap freighted version of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On,” Maceo and crew lay into some deadly grooves: Sly’s “Sing a Simple Song,” and Rufus’ classic “Tell Me Something Good,” and an organ-led version of another Gaye standard, “Inner City Blues.”

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released October 2, 2020

Recorded At – Dan's House Of Love
Alto Saxophone – Maceo Parker
Art Direction, Photography By – M. Bianco
Backing Vocals – Diann Sorrell* (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 6, 8), Kara Dio Guardi (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 6, 8)
Bass – Jerry Preston
Drums – Jamal Thomas
Engineer [Assistant] – Johnny Drazic
Executive-Producer – Joachim Becker, Maceo Parker, Natasha Maddison, Rob Gordon
Guitar – Bruno Speight
Mastered By – Scott Hull (2)
Organ [Hammond] – Will Boulware
Percussion – Maceo Parker (tracks: 1, 4, 7)
Photography By – Mike Segal
Producer – Daniel Wise
Rap – Corey Parker (tracks: 1, 3, 5)
Recorded By – Daniel Wise
Tenor Saxophone – Vincent Henry
Trombone – Fred Wesley
Trumpet – Ron Tooley
Vocals – Maceo Parker (tracks: 2, 4, 6 to 10)

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Maceo Parker

is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament- Funkadelic in the 1970s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. Since the early 1990s, he has toured under his own name. ... more