The Fatback Band
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Audio interviews
Interview by Simon Witter, Rock's Backpages audio, 1985
NYC's favourites talk about the genesis of the band, releasing THE first rap record, 'King Tim III', and how the band have survived and thrived with the funk.
File format: mp3; file size: 23mb; Interview length: 25' 09"; sound quality: ***
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The Fatback Band: Fat 'n' funky sounds that set folks dancin'!
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 7 May 1974
PERHAPS THE No 1 underground disco record of last year belonged to a New York based band called the Fatback Band. The record, of course, ...
The Fatback Band: Fat 'N' Funky... with a touch of sophistication!
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 24 February 1976
You wan' 'em, you got 'em... the Fatback Band are back again, to acknowledge the support of their British followers. Boogie on... ...
Report by David Hancock, Record Mirror, 6 March 1976
TAKE A WALK down New York's bustling "barrio" and the chances are that some Puerto Rican will start hustling you. They can't help it, they've ...
Interview by David Hancock, Record Mirror, 21 February 1976
YOU CAN be forgiven for thinking the Fatback Band would come on as pure street — y'know gettin' down with it, plenty of jive talk, ...
The Fatback Band — Bringing Home The Bacon
Profile by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 12 April 1975
BEANS AND fatback... It's as American as Kentucky chicken. And fatback, in case you didn't know, is the rich, thick bacon that comes, as the ...
Fatback Band: People Music (Perception 43)
Review by Tony Cummings, Black Music, December 1973
"GOOD EVENING ladies and gentlemen we would like to welcome you to a studio discotheque with the Fatback Band. We want you to sit back ...
Fatback Band: Keepin' it Rootsy
Interview by Tony Cummings, Black Music, January 1976
"Through that door". A grinning Charlie Mullen is standing in the dressing room of the Burlesque club, Farnborough, and gesticulating towards the end of a ...
Overview by Tony Cummings, Black Music, April 1974
IN A HAPPIER world, pigeon-holes would be strictly for pigeons. Yet the fact remains that terms like "R and B" and "Soul" are no longer ...
The Fatback Band, Cameo, General Caine II and Prince Charles & the City Beat Band
Review by Lloyd Bradley, New Musical Express, 4 July 1981
Slicing through the funk fat: The Fatback Band: Tasty Jam (Spring); Cameo: Knights Of The Sound Table (Chocolate City); General Caine II: Get Down Attack ...
The Fatback Band: Fatbacks Hit Back
Interview by Robin Katz, Black Echoes, 21 February 1976
SOMEONE BLEW the whistle on the Fatback band this week. "The whole show was disappointing" came the critical opinion. "They basically play the same riff ...
Smokey Robinson/Mighty Clouds of Joy/Sylvers/Fatback Band: Los Angeles
Live Review by John Swenson, Sounds, 27 March 1976
YOU WON'T find a better textbook example of what's gone wrong with R&B over the past few years. Ticket prices, scaled from $10.00 down, were ...
The Fatback Band: Ain't No Such Thing As We Don't Sounds BAAAD
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 6 March 1976
"WHEN WE get a groove we hate to quit!" shouted out Bill Curtis. His voice carried over inexorable waves of sound, cookin', stampin', and gettin' ...
Fatback Band: Givin' The People What They Want
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 5 October 1976
For their new Night Fever album, the band have concentrated on what the fans seem to like most – happy up 'n' dancin' music. John ...
Fatback Band: The Master Dance Combo...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 3 January 1978
John Abbey talks to Bill Curtis about the band that's not strictly a 'band' anymore ...
Review by Bob Fisher, New Musical Express, September 1975
"MY NAME is Yum Yum, Gimme some!" ...
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