Boscoe: We Ain’t Free and If I Had My Way
From: Boscoe [Kingdom of Chad, 1974]
Whenever an exceedingly rare record comes up for auction it delivers the same range of responses. Half the people think the album is an overpriced pile of poo, the other half would happily pay the extortionate amount asked to get their hands on what they consider a grail in record collecting. What it seems to break down to is that while the album may not be worth the money asked for it, the knowledge that you can’t pick up a reissue in your local store and that you are among the select few lucky enough to have it on vinyl adds extra enjoyment to the pleasure of listening. Sonic elitism in full effect my friends.
A classic example of this is Boscoe’s self-titled opus. A private label record on the truly awesomely named Kingdom of Chad that is still to be reissued, the album goes for a staggering amount of money whenever it appears. While it could be debated if any album is worth this much money I am fully convinced that this is an undeniably great recording.
We Ain’t Free goes some way to illustrating why people talk about this album in hushed reverence. An 8 minute stomper of funk featuring sweet harmonies, a riff that bangs round your head for days after, and the kind of breaks that make a producer feel like a kid in a candy store this is a blindingly hot track.
While If I Had My Way is less jawdropping than We Ain’t Free it’s still a great slice of funk with a lovely horns/bass play off. It’s always struck me, considering the record is a private press, how superb the production on the album is – crystal clear clarity and deep deep bass.
I can’t go out and recommend picking up this album for obvious reasons but hopefully it goes some way to illustrating why some people will drop so much dosh on a 12″ piece of round vinyl……..
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Let me get this straight…Two grand for this and I gotta pay 5 bucks extra for media mail? You'd think they'd throw in free overnight delivery!
It had zero bids and you're giving us two songs of the album!
Did you but it?
i meant buy.
Ha ha no I don't think I'm at the stage where I can justify forking out that kind of cash.
Asking $2000 is more than a tad optomistic. I think it's more like a 6-800 dollar record anyway.
Luckily I've got contacts generous enough to give me a recording of the album if not generous enough to let me actually touch the vinyl.
jesus it's great stuff alright but 2K. what price music and all but..hell. BTW went to see the beck/radiohead gig in dublin last night. the dj between the bands played some of the most bowel shattering dub your ever likley to hear. the whole thing was amazing. and all for the equiv of 60 dollars. a snip by comparison.
WOW, that song is incredible. Do you know if the bassist played on any other records?
This track is a shining example of why anyone who doesn't regularly check in with EarFuzz.com is most certainly faking the funk.
Um, I can dig, DJ's can crate dig, she can dig, but why dig when you have a funky friend in Earfuzz.com ….
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