Chuck Brown - Your Game: Live at the 9:30 Club Washington, D.C.
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Artist: Chuck BrownEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2001-05-15
Music Label: Raw Venture
Soundtracks:
- Wind Me Up Chuck/Hoochie Coochie Man
- Feel Like Movin' That Body
- Chameleon
- Get Your Hands Up/Playing Your Game Baby
- It's Love
- 2001 (That'll Work)
- People Make the World Go Round
- Wind Us Up Funk & Benny
- One on One
- Hey Go Go Mickey
- No Diggity
- Do You Know What Time It Is
- Go Go Swing Outro
- Hah Man [Sinbad, Main Title]
Music reviews of Your Game: Live at the 9:30 Club Washington, D.C.
Music Review: Not my game exactly, but I can't stop playing it
Rating: 5 Stars
Go-go is D.C.'s indigenous funk, but I'll freely admit that I'm way less familiar with it than I really should be. This realization came upon me with astonishing force upon listening to this record, which is unlike anything else I've ever heard except Chuck's actual live show, which I had to check out after hearing this CD. The audience for this live show seems to be specially selected people who know every rite of the go-go show and who appreciate the cameos from Jas, Funk, Benny, Andre "Whiteboy" Johnson (some irony there), and other special guest artists from old school go-go luminaries such as Trouble Funk. I hope one day to be well-enough versed in go-go to savor such moments.
Coming to this CD from classical and hip-hop, though, there are priceless moments enough. A horn riff with (electronic piano doubling as) harpsichord under it in the opening "Wind Me Up, Chuck" sounds freaking exactly like the opening ritornello in Bach's second Brandenburg Concerto, but about five million times funkier. Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon" gets a conga-driven workout and some ultrasmooth Chuckster lyrics. "2001 (That'll Work)" again takes a classical work, in this case "Dawn" from Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra, and funkafies it mercilessly into the go-go strut, producing extra-special glee for anyone who likes historical irony and remembers Strauss's vile late-life racism. "No Diggity," the one hit in the wonder that was Blackstreet, and the Kool Moe Dee classic "Do You Know What Time It Is?" both get slamming covers towards the close of the album, showing that Chuck and his band can cover all the R&B bases they choose to.
But mostly this record is about bold, jazzy brass playing, guitar riffs powerful enough to shake mountains, Chuck's magesterial presence, and the go-go beat powering it all. It's really a wonderful thing, and the only reason I don't play this record more than I do is that I'm worried about becoming inured to its glories.
The fact that the first of like five shout-outs to Silver Spring occurs at 4:26 into the record is purely incidental to my enjoyment of it, by the way.
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