"I'm Rich As Old Croesus When I've Got Ten Pieces"

Kokning cover art by Kim Hiorthey, 2010.

Cheers to Five Alarm Funk, the exceptional 10-piece funk band from Vancouver, British Columbia, currently touring Canada. They chewed up the Phog Lounge last Wednesday. People who couldn't get in were watching through the front window and grooving out in the cold and damp on the sidewalk. Inside was extremely funky, foggy, and fun.

The Snark playlist for TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2011.
(Artist/SONG/Album, etc.)
  
Five Alarm Funk -- GORILLA -- Voodoo Hairdoo (2008, Five Alarm Funk)
Fat Freddys Drop -- ROADY -- Based On A True Story (2005, Kartel)
  
Bjorn Torske -- LANGT FRA AFRIKA -- Kokning (2010, Smalltown Supersound)
DePedro -- NUBES DE PAPEL -- Nubes De Papel (2010, Nat Geo)
Phelps & Munro -- NOTHING TO SEE HERE -- Invaderism: Round Trip Mars Presents A Ten Year Celebration (2010, Round Trip Mars)
Type Monkey Type -- SMOOTH LIKE CRUNCHY PEANUT BUTTER -- CJSW: Now With More Music (2011, CJSW)
  
Mr. OK feat. Larose -- YAYA -- Men Mwen (2011, Mr. OK)
Five Alarm Funk -- KING ARTHUR'S COURT -- Five Alarm Funk (2006, Five Alarm Funk)
Toots & the Maytals -- BAM BAM -- Trojan Calypso Box (2002, Trojan) [orig. 1966]
  
Louise Bennett -- CH-CHI BUD -- Jamaican Folk Songs Sung By Louise Bennett (1954, Folkways)
The Minotaurs -- NOTHING NEW -- The Thing (2010, Minotaurs)
Crissi Cochrane -- DARLING, DARLING -- Darling, Darling (2010, Crissi Cochrane)
The Bees -- WINTER ROSE -- Every Step's A Yes (2010, Fiction Records)
  
Johnny Green & His Orchestra feat. Fred Astaire -- I'D RATHER LEAD A BAND -- The Essential Collection [orig.1936]  {Hear dancing on the radio!}
Five Alarm Funk -- PAYDAY -- Anything Is Possible (2010, Five Alarm Funk)
Franco et l'O.K. Jazz -- BAILA MI CARABINE -- Franco et l'O.K. Jazz (196?)
The Budos Band -- BUDOS DIRGE -- Budos III (2010, Daptone)
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra -- I'M GONNA LOCK MY HEART (AND THROW AWAY THE KEY -- Billie, Ella, Lena, Sarah! (1994, Sony) [orig. Columbia]
Alton Ellis -- AFRICAN DESCENDANTS -- Studio One Funk (2004, Soul Jazz) [orig. 197?, Coxsone]
  
Vinicius Cantuária & Bill Frissell -- LÁGRIMAS MEXICANAS -- Lágrimas Mexicanas (2010, Eone)

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