The compilation Country Funk Vol. 2, which collects songs by country singers that show the influence of funk between 1967 and 1974, is interesting for two reasons. First, it shows the skewed interests ...

Country Funk ends with Georgia R&B guitarist Johnny Jenkins' mighty cover of Dr. John 's "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" (which Beck famously sampled on "Loser"). Jenkins is backed by the Allman Brothers ...

Tony Joe White cooks up a slinky disco-country tune with “Alone at Last,” a previously unreleased song from Light in the Attic’s third installment of its popular Country Funk series. Country Funk ...

When country singer Thomas Rhett saw the middle-aged white guys wearing their cowboy hats, tucked-in shirts and belt buckles dancing as his band played Uptown Funk, he knew he'd found his direction.

The second installation of this Light in the Attic-compiled collection features tracks from Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, JJ Cale, and others. If Vol. 1 was about mapping the country funk trend via ...

A follow-up to 2012’s “Country Funk 1969-1975,” this second anthology from Light in the Attic Records captures a seemingly disparate collision of cultures: country heartache and twang and the grit and ...

Last month, Light in the Attic Records unearthed a group of songs that could at once catch the of ears of Nashville rockers and Brooklyn indie kids. Dubbed Country Funk, 1969-1975 (but not including ...

Rhett is making his shows even more of a can't-miss opportunity, as he's now closing out his set with the massive pop hit 'Uptown Funk.' The viral song is a Mark Ronson collaboration with Mars, and ...

Light in the Attic album release features country luminaries: Dolly Parton, J.J. Cale, Conway Twitty, Larry Jon Wilson, & Billy Swan. Produced and compiled by Jason Morgan (Bay Area DJ/collector) and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Like its predecessor, the beguiling Country Funk Volume II, 1967-1974 is a collection ...

On July 15th, esteemed record excavators Light in the Attic release Country Funk II: 1967-1974, the second compilation of a genre that’s unlikely, completely fictional and utterly fantastic. It’s the ...

Dave Gonzalez lights into lead guitar with the fierce determination of a rocker. A few moments later, he slips into the background as Mike Barfield, his Stone River Boys band mate, lays down stinging ...