Practice What You Preach
Straight outta the unlikely funk home of Germany, The Poets of Rhythm's PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH is a solid 11 cuts of hard-hitting, greasy soul-funk that takes its cues straight from the greats (the JB's, the Meters, etc.).
Artist: The Poets Of Rhythm
Genre: Soul
Label: Daptone Records
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Recorded in Munich in 1993, the compositions are catchy, if admittedly derivative, and enjoyably varied, spanning all-out party-starting burners ("Funky Runthrough," the title tune), simmering midtempo groovers (all with food-related titles), and a couple of decently convincing soul ballads. The grooves are deep in the pocket, and the musicianship is basically impeccable. Unlikely as it must have seemed to them at the time, the Poets of Rhythm can now be seen as the forefathers of the 2000s soul-funk revival, so it's fitting that this, their debut album, has been reissued by Daptone Records, the standard-bearers for faithfully authentic retro-soul.
About the artist
German funk band Poets of Rhythm began in Munich after friends Boris Geiger and Jan Weissenfeldt were first exposed to the raw funk that came out of the U.S. in the late '60s and early '70s.
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