Iron Leg: The Complete Mickey & The Soul Generation, by Mickey & The Soul Generation

Iron Leg: The Complete Mickey & The Soul Generation

by Mickey & The Soul Generation

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1.	Iron Leg 02:14	buy track
2.	Football 02:43	buy track
3.	Up the Stairs and Around the Bend 03:51	buy track
4.	Give Everybody Some 07:04	buy track
5.	Joint Session 02:44	buy track
6.	Live Demo - Hey, Brother Man 06:09	buy track
7.	The Whatzit 03:11	buy track
8.	Get Down Brother 03:22	buy track
9.	Mystery Girl 04:23	buy track
10.	Message From a Black Man 06:01	buy track
11.	Chocolate 02:22	buy track
12.	How Good Is Good 02:51	buy track
13.	We Got To Make A Change 03:08	buy track
14.	Soulful Sickness 03:47	buy track
15.	U.F.O. 03:22	buy track
16.	Hey, Brother Man 02:56	buy track
17.	Southern Fried Funk (1st Movement) 03:04	buy track
18.	Southern Fried Funk (2nd Movement) 02:46	buy track
19.	U.F.O. (Demo) 03:15	buy track
20.	Listen (To The Cry Of The People) 03:50	buy track
21.	The Get Down (Live) 04:37	buy track
22.	Working On Your Love (Live) 02:36	buy track
23.	Help (I Need Your Love) [Live] 03:53	buy track
24.	Why You Wanna Leave Me (Live) 03:38	buy track
25.	Life's A Mystery (Live) 07:30	buy track
26.	Hey, Brother Man (Demo) 04:08	buy track

about

Best known for their 1969 paper hit “Iron Leg,” the mixed instrumental combo Mickey & the Soul Generation came to semi-national attention following Nipsey Russell’s performance of the Iron Leg dance on Johnny Carson. Though they shared a label with Ben E. King, they lacked access to the same promotion and marketing resources. A tour with Sam & Dave and opening slots for James Brown, Kool & the Gang, and The Supremes found them performing for thousands nightly, but still sleeping on floors. By the mid-’70s the group had fractured, with members joining the army, bottling Coke, and starting families.

At the dawn of the century, Josh Davis (AKA DJ Shadow) tracked Mickey and his Soul Generation down for the purpose of reissuing their recordings on his upstart Cali-Tex label. That 2003 reissue was met with critical praise, and ultimately turned a new generation of music lovers onto rare funk and soul. Numero has gone back to the scene of the crime and re-canvased for new leads, helping Davis expand on his original work, with updated liner notes, tons of newly discovered photos, and a previously unreleased track.

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released July 16, 2013

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Josh Davis, when not busy recording under his DJ Shadow alias, is a blackbelt record enthusiast and accumulator of sui generis recordings. Co-curated by Dante Carfagna, another vaunted compiler of records and record histories, the Cali-Tex label brought Pieces of Peace finally to vinyl and handled an LP’s worth of J.C. Davis recordings. ... more

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