Blow Your Whistle: Original Old School Breaks & Classic Funk Bombs

Blow Your Whistle: Original Old School Breaks & Classic Funk Bombs
Greatest hits album by The Soul Searchers
Released	February 19, 2007
Genre	Go-go jazz-funk soul
Length	53:47
Label	Vampisoul B000M2E8LI
Producer	Carroll Hynson Joe Tate
The Soul Searchers chronology
Salt of the Earth (1974) Blow Your Whistle: Original Old School Breaks & Classic Funk Bombs (2007)

Blow Your Whistle: Original Old School Breaks & Classic Funk Bombs is a greatest hits album by American go-go and soul band The Soul Searchers. ^{[1] [2]} The album was released on February 19, 2007 and consists of a compilation of twelve digitally remastered songs from the group's two previously released albums ( We the People and Salt of the Earth ). ^{[1] [3] [4]}

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Blow Your Whistle"	Chuck Brown Maxx Kidd	3:01
2.	"It's All in Your Mind"	Chuck Brown John Buchanan	2:55
3.	"Think"	James Brown	4:31
4.	"We the People"	Chuck Brown John Buchanan	5:12
5.	"Ain’t it Heavy"	John "JB" Buchanan	5:58
6.	"If it Ain’t Funky"	Chuck Brown	3:56
7.	"I Rolled It, You Hold It"	John "JB" Buchanan	4:59
8.	"Funk to the Folks"	John "JB" Buchanan	4:15
9.	"Ashley's Roachclip"	Lloyd Pinchback	5:35
10.	"1993"	John "JB" Buchanan	4:41
11.	"Soul to the People"	The Soul Searchers	2:52
12.	"Blowout"	John "JB" Buchanan	5:54
Total length:			53:47

Personnel

• Chuck Brown – electric guitar, lead vocals
• John Enwell – bass guitar
• Kenneth Scoggins – drums
• Lino A. Druitt – congas, percussion
• Lloyd Pinchback – flute, saxophone, percussion
• John "JB" Buchanan – trombone, piano, synthesizer, vocals
• Hilton C. Selton Jr. – organ
• Horace Brock – organ
• Bennie Braxton – organ, vocals
• Donald Tillery – trumpet, percussion, vocals
• James Maycock – compilation assembly, liner notes

References

1. "Blow Your Whistle: Original Old School Breaks & Classic Funk Bombs". AllMusic . Retrieved February 6, 2017.
2. "Blow Your Whistle: Original Old School Breaks & Classic Funk Bombs". Discogs . Retrieved February 6, 2017.
3. Nnamdi, Kojo (February 14, 2014). "From Go-Go's Heyday to Today: One Musician's Love Affair With D.C. Music". The Kojo Nnamdi Show. WAMU.
4. Thompson, Dave (2001). "Part Four: The New School". Funk: Third Ear – The Essential Listening Companion (1st ed.). San Francisco: BackBeat Books. pp. 297–299. ISBN   0-87930-629-7.