Index: Fire Eyes and Eight Miles High
From: Index [DC records, 1967]
Apologies for the break from posting for a little while, I’ve come into the possession of some fantastic soul and funk records and been busy going through them and picking out what I want to share with you the listener. Also, um, Modern Warfare 2 [...]

Ike White: Love & Affection and Changin’ Times
From: Changin’ Times [LA International, 1976]
Back with the rare today and Ike White’s 1976 LP, Changin’ Times. This post will be of the mercifully short type due to my knowledge of Ike being limited to that he recorded this album while in prison, it was at least partially [...]

DMG: Psycho and I Ain’t Bullshitting
From: Rigormortiz [Rap-A_Lot, 1993]
Overloaded from the songs for lovers in the build up to and realisation of Valentine’s day over the last week, I desperately turned to something, anything, that would successfully clean the sweet aftertaste from my mouth. In moments like this the best cure for the sugar [...]

Gil Scott Heron:
Did You Hear What They Said
From: Free Will [Flying Dutchman, 1972]
We Almost Lost Detroit
From: Bridges [Arista, 1977]
Angel Dust
From: Secrets [Arista, 1978]
Willing
From: 1980 [Arista, 1980]
Better late than never, it only seems appropriate that a site as immersed in soul and funk as Ear Fuzz should take a minute to appreciate that Mr [...]

Tommy Mcgee: Come On and We Ought To Be Together
From: Positive Negative [MTMG, 197?]
In our typical understated and in no way unorganised manner, Ear Fuzz actually passed the five year anniversary over the past week. It seems like only yesterday when I closed down my own blog and moved here but over that period we’ve [...]

Oscar Brown, Jr.: A Dime Away from A Hotdog
From:Movin on [Atlantic, 1972]
Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers: Bustin’ Loose
From:Bustin’ Loose [Source Records, 1979]
Phirpo Y Sus Caribes: Comencemos
From: Parilla Caliente [Phillips, 1973]
Bobby Pauneto: El Senor Sid
From: El Sonido Morderno [Mardi Gras, 196?]
Bobby Hutcherson feat. Harold Land : Goin’ Down South
From: San Francisco [Blue Note, [...]

Kings Go Forth: One Day
From: The Outsiders Are Back [Luaka Bop, 2010]
Holy hell. This just dropped into my inbox and shook every single January cobweb out of my head. From the upcoming Kings Go Forth’s debut album, The Outsiders Are Back, this is an absolutely fantastic slice of soulful funk. Like something transported right out [...]

Lou Ragland: Understand Each Other and The Next World
From: Is Conveyor [SMH, 1977]
So, been a while since I popped up with a music post but my fellow fuzzers? Fuzzists? have put up some sterling posts. Please do not sleep on the treasures on offer on the site, some stunning music in the last month alone.
On [...]

Willie Mitchell 1928-2010 Teddy Pendergrass 1950-2010

It seems I only pop up on here at the moment to mark the sad passing of another legend but while I had held off as long as possible I felt I had to post something to reflect the passing of both Willie Mitchell and Teddy Pendergrass.
Two extremely [...]

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Ain’t No Chimneys
More new music today with a new release from Fuzz favourites Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings. In typically funky fashion the track records Sharon’s own childhood memories in one of the least maudlin xmas tunes i’ve heard in many a long year. In fact, it was powerful enough [...]