"Once you get the funk out there, it's not going back. You can't put it back in the box," says filmmaker Stanley Nelson. His ...

And, perhaps more importantly, you know it when you feel it ... them further towards the funk. "Soon as we got a hit record, was the same year that [The Beatles' album] Sgt.

The Godfather of Soul, who once said, “I’ve only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk,” pioneered the genre in the mid-1960s with songs like “I Got You (I Feel ...

I have an album out on Matador Records called Halo On The Inside ... It was hard for me not to initially ingest his use of scatological humour as boy-ish – gendered, immature and coming from a ...