Best of Chuck Brown

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Greatest hits album by Chuck Brown
Released April 12, 2005
Genre
Length95:14 [1]
Label Raw Venture Records
Producer
  • Reo Edwards (exec.)
  • Stephen Meyner (exec.)
Chuck Brown chronology
Put Your Hands Up!
(2002)		Best of Chuck Brown
(2005)		 We're About the Business
(2007)
Professional ratings
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Best of Chuck Brown is a career-spanning greatest hits album by Washington, D.C.-based go-go musician and recording artist Chuck Brown. [4] The double album was released on April 12, 2005, and consist of a compilation of sixteen digitally remastered songs from his previously released studio and live albums, including "Back It On Up (Sho' Ya Right)", "Run Joe", "Bustin' Loose", and "We Need Some Money". [1]

A greatest hits album, sometimes called a "best of" album or a catalog album, is a compilation of songs by a particular artist or band. Most often the track list contains previously released recordings with a high degree of notability. However, to increase the appeal, especially to people who already own the original release, it is common to include remixes or alternate takes of popular songs; sometimes even new material will function as bonus tracks. At times, a greatest hits compilation is the original album release for songs that have themselves been released as a single and charted successfully.

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Go-go high-energy subgenre of funk music from Washington, D. C.

Go-go is a popular music subgenre associated with funk that originated in the Washington, D.C., area during the mid-60s to late-70s. It remains primarily popular in the Washington metropolitan area as a uniquely regional music style. A great number of bands contributed to the early evolution of the genre, but the Young Senators, Black Heat, and singer-guitarist Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers are credited with having developed most of the hallmarks of the style.

Contents

Track listing

Disc: 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."We the People"Chuck Brown5:25
2."Blow Your Whistle"
3:02
3."Bustin' Loose"Chuck Brown7:41
4."Back It on Up (Sho' Ya Right)"Chuck Brown9:29
5."We Need Some Money"
  • Chuck Brown
  • Curtis Johnson
8:16
6."Day-O"
7:06
7."Misty" Erroll Garner 6:05
8."Fiesta" R. Kelly 4:35
Disc: 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
3:14
2."Midnight Sun"
3:24
3."Moody's Mood"
5:07
4."Woody Woodpecker"
Louis Jordan
2:35
5."Stormy Monday" T-Bone Walker 5:46
6."Run Joe"
8:55
7."Playing Your Game, Baby"Austin Croom Johnson6:38
8."Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus" Andraé Crouch 7:56
Total length:95:14

Personnel

The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer either leads the vocal ensemble, or sets against the ensemble as the dominant sound. In vocal group performances, notably in soul and gospel music, and early rock and roll, the lead singer takes the main vocal part, with a chorus provided by other band members as backing vocalists.

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An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

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An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument, an electronic or digital derivative of keyboard instruments. Broadly speaking, the term electronic keyboard or just a keyboard can refer to any type of digital or electronic keyboard instrument. These include synthesizers, digital pianos, stage pianos, electronic organs and digital audio workstations. However, an electronic keyboard is more specifically a synthesizer with a built-in low-wattage power amplifier and small loudspeakers.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Best of Chuck Brown: Album Information". AllMusic . Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  2. ↑ Tognazzini, Anthony. Chuck Brown: The Best of Chuck Brown > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Chuck Brown Album Releases & Reviews". ARTISTdirect . Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  4. ↑ Wartofsky, Alona (September 2001). Frampton, Scott, ed. "CAPITAL STEPS: The P.A. Rocks D.C.". CMJ: New Music Monthly . No. 96. New York City: Robert K. Haber. pp. 21–22. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
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