One of the hottest 70's afro-funk tunes came from a Ghanaian expat, Dan Boadi, who recorded it in Chicago in 1977 with his studio band The Internationals, and released it on his album Money is The Root of Evil, titled like the song itself 🎶

It's a funk bullet train with crazy hi-hat, traditional cowbell pattern, heavy drums, smooth bass, hypnotic organ riffs, highlife-gone-psychedelic guitars and jazzy sax by a totally unknown Bro. Eli.

The tune is a good representation of what was happening on Ghanaian music scene at that time with guajeo (major Cuban influence) and native rhythms crossing over to afrobeat, and soaking in some disco-funk influences.

Original record is extremely rare and expensive, but fortunately for me Chicago-based Aestuarium Records re-released the title track together with Play That Funky Music on flip side as 12" in 2002, which is how I got my copy.

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