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The African Music Machine was an eight-piece funk outfit from New Orleans led by bassist/songwriter Louis Villery. They got their start as a house band for the Jewel/Paula label axis, playing on records by the likes of <a href="spotify:artist:6k3YMXJ1MJLgUEAlSPC6hA">Fontella Bass</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3amz8sGYUMDNb2wxf4PaTj">Little Johnny Taylor</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:76wdxhjqwIcPwfYDXQPXnX">Roscoe Robinson</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0QYN2PJUwq49cW3T75KXCG">Ted Taylor</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5OVqNsh71K5gQm34P0K1et">Tommie Young</a>, and singer/producer <a href="spotify:artist:6gCa8F8P0PSVNYUMtoQOgk">Bobby Patterson</a>, among others. From 1972-1974, they cut several of their own singles for the <a href="spotify:artist:6gCa8F8P0PSVNYUMtoQOgk">Patterson</a>-owned Soul Power subsidiary. Most of their work was done in a heavy, <a href="spotify:artist:7GaxyUddsPok8BuhxN6OUW">James Brown</a> vein, sometimes with a bit of Creole influence mixed in. Their original 45s -- including "Black Water Gold," "Tropical," and "The Dapp" -- later became highly prized items among funk collectors, fetching outlandish prices; a compilation of singles, also titled Black Water Gold, was reissued in 2000. In 2001, Villery assembled a new version of the African Music Machine and released an eponymous album on Singular. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi
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