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Funky Delicacies’ program of New Orleans funk reissues by the likes of The Gaturs, Eddie Bo and others have shown that there is no place on the planet where more phenomenal seventies funk was lost than the city of New Orleans. We have reaffirmed this truth with the release of Chuck Simmons’ “Hustler’s Strut”. Simmons in and of himself was a modest Alvin Cash type bandleader, a guy whose moans, grunts and groans punctuated a funky groove. But he had a connoisseur’s taste for songwriters, arrangers and producers. This album was produced almost in its entirety by the brilliant Wardell Quezerque and many tracks resonate with the same brilliance that propelled much bigger hits like Jean Knight’s “Mr. Big Stuff” and King Floyd’s “Groove Me.” Funky breakdowns, breakbeats and riffs galore for every kind of funk fan from the DJ to the listener to the dancer.

Review:

Where Y’at Magazine

Volume 5:8

Issue May 2003

Chuck Simmons

Hustler’s Strut (Funky Delicacies)

As Chuck Simmons so succinctly puts it, “Alriiight, horns!!” Bearing perhaps the most insanely brilliant album title of the entire Jazz Fest season, Hustler’s Strut is composed primarily of the kind of funk that Mike Dominici raves about directly above (read: this ain’t the Maple Leaf, baby, this is the Ninth Ward!!). Laboring under the baton of awe inspiring New Orleans arranger Wardell Quezerque, Chuck Simmons’ career suffered something of a setback when Malaco Records bankrolled a Simmons album hot on the heels of Wardell’s stupendous success with King Floyd and Jean Knight, then inexplicably canned it upon completion. But Chuck had already proven his worth in ’67 with the salacious double-sided funk bomb “Do The Funky Broom” backed with “Make This A Better World” –both of which featured the blisteringly rawguitar attack of The Meters’ Leo Nocentelli- and he bounced back explosively with “Lay It On Me,” a song so perfectly in its loosely rendered raunch that it actually pains me to not take up every word in this review in describing it.

Equally accepted at serious soul, Simmons’ 1975 sessions at Sea Saint Studios produced the excellent “I’m Wondering,” “Run Away” and “Don’t Send Me No Doctor,” as well as the dramatic nuances of the minor keyed “Your Not The One For Me,” which bears more than a little resemblance, stylistically and especially emotionally, to the late, great Johnny Adams. Saving the best for last, Chuck’s 1965 debut recording with The Royal Imperials is the kind of soul music so magical you just know nothing like it will never be made again. We’re talking holy ground here, folks. Proto funk to the max, the cliff hanging bass line and the cymbal-heavy drums of “Do the Sissy” only add to the atmospherics provided by the relentlessly reverbed guitar lick that drives Chuck’s James Brown wails. The flip, “Why Should They Pay,” burns with the type of deep feeling that renders reviewers like your truly speechless. Yeah, it’s that good. Great sound quality and excellent liner notes make for a fine retrospective of yet another underappreciated –yet supremely talented- New Orleans musician.

-Dan Gilbert

Details	Audio	Trk	Song Title
		1	Hustler's Strut (parts 1 & 2)
		2	Don't Send Me No Doctor
		3	Don't Create Complications
		4	Everybody Needs Somebody
		5	Something's Going On in My Home
		6	Lay It On Me (Part 1)
		7	Funky Broom
		8	Make This a Better World
		9	Am I Grooving You
		10	Doin' the Sissy
		11	I'm Wondering (CD Version)
		12	Run Away
		13	You're Not the One for Me
		14	Kid Stuff
		15	Why Should They Pay
		16	Lay It On Me (Part 2)

New Orleans Funk

This is a CD. It was also released on vinylRare & Unrleased Lower Ninth Ward New Orleans Funk 1965-1978

This is a CD. It was also released on vinyl

Rare & Unrleased Lower Ninth Ward New Orleans Funk 1965-1978