Scotland’s funkiest outfit, Average White Band are probably best-known for the million-selling “Pick Up the Pieces,” produced by the legendary Arif Mardin for Atlantic. Ho… See more

Something of a cult classic, beloved of deep funk fans, Lee Fields’ 1979 album showed that the former Kool and the Gang man deserved a limelight of his own. Obviously i… See more

After a tumultuous end to the 80s, RHCP were by their own admission in a dark place. But producer Rick Rubin encouraged the band to make the funk album he believed th… See more

You might not expect great funky sounds to come out of the southeast of England in the mid-1980s, but you’d be wrong. Seasoned Mods, organist James Taylor and his pals’ jazz-funk e… See more