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Purdie Good/Shaft - Bernard Purdie
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  1. Cold Sweat
  2. Montego Bay
  3. Purdie Good
  4. Wasteland
  5. Everybody's Talkin'
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  1. Cold Sweat
  2. Montego Bay
  3. Purdie Good
  4. Wasteland
  5. Everybody's Talkin'
  6. You Turn Me On
  7. Theme from Shaft
  8. Way Back Home
  9. Attica
  10. Them Changes
  11. Summer Melody
  12. Butterfingers
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This two-fer reissue of his two 1971 solo albums Purdie Good/Shaft is a pounding demonstration of why Bernard "Pretty" Purdie was considered one of the premier "funky drummers" of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The set opens with a cracklin' cover of James Brown's standard "Cold Sweat" and includes other pop covers such as "Everybody's Talkin'" and a thumping, purely instrumental version of Isaac Hayes' "Theme From Shaft," with a dash of reggae sun splashed in from "Montego Bay." According to the liner notes (the originals ...

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