Bernie Worrell 3

Here is the last volume of the Bernie Worrell pick. Several long tracks including one from Praxis (with Bill Laswell.) And one track from the Golden Palominos also with Bill Laswell. A guest spot with Science Faxtion with Bootsy Collins and Buckethead. Another guest spot with the Pretenders. As well as Les Claypool's Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains which also included Buckethead and Brain (from Primus). Bernie was a full member of this supergroup. As you look closer Praxis, Science Faxtion and Claypool's band all were inter-related. Go check out how they fit together and listen to the differences (and similarities) each have. Is that tie, just Bernie? I find it interesting that each of his projects has a pretty cool bass player in the picture.

Bernie Worrell 3

24 Funkadelic - Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow

25 Bernie Worrell - Bass On The Line

26 The Golden Palominos - Boy (Go)

27 Pretenders - My Baby

28 Funkadelic - (Not Just) Knee Deep

29 Praxis - After Shock (Chaos Never Died)

30 Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains - Buckethead

31 Science Faxtion - Famous

Bernie Worrell 2

The second volume of the Bernie Worrell pick. Not as many tracks, because several are long tracks, but especially Fela Kuti with an almost 30 minute track "Army Arrangement" which happens to be the first Fela Kuti track I ever owned. Volume one was posted yesterday. So today two tracks here from African artists. A track from the Talking Heads. One each from Parliament and Funkadelic. One Bill Laswell associated track and one solo album track. If you just heard him here, you would say how diverse and cool he was, but this is just the tip of his genius.

Bernie Worrell 2

17 Fela Kuti - Army Arrangement

18 Funkadelic - Atmosphere

19 Bernie Worrell - Dissinfordollars

20 Parliament - Chocolate City

21 Manu Dibango - Electric Africa

22 Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better

23 Praxis - Crossing

Bernie Worrell 1

This pick comes in three volumes. Bernie Worrell was, yes, playing with the Talking Heads on the Stop Making Sense movie, but also on several other of their albums. But he was famous way before that. As a member of P-Funk, Parliament, Funkadelic, he played on many different artist albums. A few that are not as well known are Public Image Limited, Fela Kuti, The Pretenders, Manu Dibango and so much more. I divided this up into CD length volumes. You can listen to the whole shebang or by volume. It's very cool to hear his playing from song to song. BTW, he has half dozen or so albums solos in addition to all these guest spots and bands he's been in, so I have sampled several to give you a taste of that as well. Well worth looking for those albums if you don't have them.

Bernie Worrell 1

01 Bernie Worrell - Woo Together

02 Eddie Hazel - Frantic Moment

03 Material - Cosmic Slop

04 Mtume - Juicy Fruit

05 Med, Blu & Madlib featuring Mf Doom - Knock Knock

06 Keith Richards - Big Enough

07 Talking Heads - Burning Down The House

08 Jerry Harrison - Slink

09 Gil Scott-Heron - Re-Ron

10 Parliament - Flash Light

11 George Clinton - Atomic Dog

12 Stephanie Mills - You Can't Run From My Love

13 Public Image Limited - Home

14 Ginger Baker - Uncut

15 Fred Schneider - Monster

16 Funkadelic - Hit It and Quit It