{"id":8833,"date":"2015-11-20T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T06:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8833"},"modified":"2015-11-02T17:09:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T17:09:26","slug":"album-mini-review-the-new-mastersounds-made-for-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/20\/album-mini-review-the-new-mastersounds-made-for-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: The New Mastersounds &#8212; Made for Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mastersounds_mfp.jpg\" alt=\"mastersounds_mfp\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9031\" \/\n\n<em srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mastersounds_mfp.jpg 280w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mastersounds_mfp-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mastersounds_mfp-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>File next to:\u00a0 <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=309\">Soulive<\/a>, The Meters, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=810\">Sugarman 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B0144R8N1C&amp;asins=B0144R8N1C&amp;linkId=D3LK5GQPPVTLDB2N&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For a bunch of British lads, Leeds&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?tag=new-mastersounds\"><strong>The New Mastersounds<\/strong><\/a> sure do have American-style funk nailed down tight. Across more than a dozen albums, they&#8217;ve bult and expanded on a solid foundation that folds in <strong>James Brown<\/strong>-flavored funk with a New Orleans flavor that recalls <strong>The Meters<\/strong>. And in the process they&#8217;ve become darlings of the noodle-dancing jam band scene, without making any concessions in that direction. An instrumental foursome (guitar\/bass\/drums\/organ), The New Mastersounds often branch out, adding auxiliary\/guest vocalists and brass. All of their strengths \u2013 groove, versatility and variety \u2013 are on display here. There&#8217;s jazz, soul, even reggae (\u201cFancy,\u201d featuring toasting vocals courtesy Denver&#8217;s celebrated <strong>Spellbinder<\/strong>); there&#8217;s pretty much something here for all tastes; booty-shaking music all. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3798\"><strong>Eddie Roberts<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; tasty guitar is a highlight, as is <strong>Joe Tatton<\/strong>&#8216;s supremely soulful Hammond work. <em>Made for Pleasure<\/em> is classy, yet full of verve and (generally jubilant) emotion.<\/p>\n<p><em>An edited version of this review appeared in the <\/em>Colorado Springs Independent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,49,60,65,69],"tags":[1574],"class_list":["post-8833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funk","category-new-release","category-rb","category-review","category-soul","tag-new-mastersounds","cat-31-id","cat-49-id","cat-60-id","cat-65-id","cat-69-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9539,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833\/revisions\/9539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}