Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29164 in Music
• Released on: 2007-01-16
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Putting the fun back into funk
A friend told me about this album...and what a joy it is. Here is a really uplifting, retro-rocking funky stew of tunes. There is an easyness to these pieces which defies any wiff of archness. Love Power could have been a chart hit in 1965...almost Phil Spectorish in structure complete with Tubular Bells and Funky bass, with a strong vocal from Charlise Rockwood...exuberant and sparky. Triumph Stag is from the era of The Sweeney...this retro Hammond led Spencer Davis style funk piece is pure retro fun...party on! But Man of Constant Sorrow is the highlight of this strong album. Using a sample of the tune from the Cohen brothers' movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou" it picks up on the fizzy cheer of the original keeping some of the hillbilly charm but giving it a contempory slant with funky bass, and backbeat drums... uplifting. All in all this is a sadly overlooked combo who deserve far more recognition. The focus is squarely on unselfconcious fun... and as such they should be applauded... you owe yourself this pleasure.

Genius
I first came across Skeewiff when listening to Radio 1's "the blue room" where Rob Da Bank played "man of constant sorrow" so I went out and impulse bought an album, as it transpired I didn't get one with "man of constant sorrow" on it, but called "it's all gone...".

That is an excellent album, really up beat, funky, a bit different from most other things I own. Private Funktion is a little more down beat, but "man of constant sorrow" is everything I remember it being (cool, chilled,excellent). If you like it a bit funky and a weird combination of house and... well... jive/funk I guess, this is the album for you.

Only didn't give it 5 stars because to me that has to be saved for something truly exceptional, not sure what yet!

Buy it, it's good!