Episode #217: Rise Above It All

Last Monday was the 50th anniversary of Funkadelic's Maggot Brain, an album now recognized as one of the greatest psychedelic albums of all time. I'd been planning on commemorating it by playing the title track on Star Time, and decided to build a show of psychedelic-ish '60s and '70s soul numbers around it. That took some trawling through some psych-soul compilations to find some of the rarer stuff. I think it's a pretty good lineup, though it's a stretch to call the Solomon Burke song psychedelic. More like hyper-aware disco.

Artist	Song	Year	Label
Set 1
The Deidre Wilson Tabac	The Other Side of Life	1969	RCA
Demon Fuzz	Disillusioned Man	1970	Janus
Sweet Linda Divine	Young Girl Blues	1969	Columbia
Muddy Waters	Tom Cat	1968	Cadet Concept
Sly & the Family Stone	I Want to Take You Higher	1969	Epic
Set 2
The New Rotary Connection	I am the Black Gold of the Sun	1971	Cadet Concept
The Temptations	Message From a Black Man	1969	Gordy
Rahsaan Roland Kirk	Freaks for the Festival	1975	Atlantic
Black Nasty	It's Not the World	1973	Enterprise
Howlin' Wolf	Down in the Bottom	1969	Cadet Concept
Eugene McDaniels	Headless Heroes	1971	Atlantic
Set 3
Solomon Burke	Thanks, I Needed That	1975	Chess
The 5th Dimension	Requiem: 820 Latham	1967	Soul City
Herbie Hancock	Wiggle Waggle	1969	Warner Bros.
Joe Hicks	Rusty Ol' Halo	1973	Enterprise
Black Heat	Check It All Out	1974	Atlantic
Set 4/Outro
Saxie Russell	Psychedelic Soul Part 1	1968	Thomas
Shuggie Otis	Strawberry Letter 23	1971	Epic
Terry Callier	Ho Tsing Mee (A Song of the Sun)	1972	Cadet
Lee Moses	California Dreaming	1971	Maple
Funkadelic	Maggot Brain	1971	Westbound