It's getting hot and we are getting Funky. I have three funky tunes for Tuesday.
Atomic Dog - George Clinton
Techno funk in the early eighties was 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
"Do the Dog Catcher?"
"Why must I catch the cat?"
"Bowwow yo yippee yea!!"
I remember hearing this song as a kid thinking it was techno trash. Today listing forty years later I see I might have been wrong. They were classic and beyond their time.
It's some of the funkyinest music I've ever heard.
A Real Mother For Ya - Johnny Guitar Watson
I'm still not taking anything serious and neither is Johnny. He has the solution for Mother For ya inflation.
"Want to buy a car and it cost too much?"
"Ride a bike!"
When I think about our time today I start to sing a long:
"It's a real Mother For Ya."
Even without the relaxing vocals, the guitar and bass put us in the place we want to be. This is the power of funk.
Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
I'm finishing off this Tuesday with Maxwell Street. My dad used to take me there early Sunday morning to buy "stuff". It was the shit. There was nothing that pin pointed soul culture so well as Maxwell street. Now the University of Illinois ate up the street and turned it into YuppieVille. I don't think I would even recognize Chicago today if I visited.
John Lee Hooker was one of the Mississippi legends who frequented Chicago. Around this time of year I remember sitting in the lawn of Grant park just chilling to BB King and John Lee Hooker.
Boom Boom is a simple song and it's just a drum, guitar and harmonica but he's got it. Even Jake and Elwood are envious. I can listen to this video ten times and remember seven year old me dancing and shouting the chorus, "A how how how!"
That's it and I hope you have a Funky Tuesday with Three Tunes Tuesday started by 
Happy Father's Day Dad