Funky Movement: Vinyl LP Robert Ames & Ben Corrigan Gathering Swans builds upon Choir

Gathering Swans builds upon Choir Boy’s infectiousness with unique pop sensibilities and impeccable polish

The ramshackle cover art for this 1972 album makes it look like a bootleg

LP1: ‘TILL THE SUN GOES DOWN

but I think everyone wants to feel like what they’re doing is useful in some way

1979 session features pianist Phil Markowitz

Funky Movement: Vinyl LP Robert Ames & Ben Corrigan Gathering Swans builds upon ChoirBlack Friday LP now available as catalogue. Texas funk music is amongst the highest regarded styles in the genre, a unique mixture of jazz, blues, R&B and James Browns syncopation that evolved in metropolises like Houston (Kashmere Stage Band), San Antonio (Mickey and the Soul Generation), Austin (James Polk and the Brothers) and Dallas. Dallas birthed a variety of independent labels, Soultex and Doin Our Thing amongst them. But no one in Dallas,