Category: Funk Live Albums

Funk Live Albums

I find something very appealing about funk music and the way it can lift your spirits and make you want to move.

Funk music began in the mid to late sixties as James Brown started to experiment more with rhythms based around riffs. Sly Stone and George Clinton linked it to the vocal soul groups and then took it to the rock audience.

In the early seventies, funk was a dominant force as soul moved into more into lover man territory with Al Green and Marvin Gaye but then in the late seventies, disco emerged and provided a bridge between soul and funk. It sold a lot of records and funk groups started to commercialise their sound for mass appeal and lost the whatever made funk special.

To help you to find the best funk live albums, I have a readers poll for funk fans to take part in and recommend the live funk albums they like best.

Best Live Funk Albums

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Live funk albums include:

Average White Band – Person To Person 1975
Bootsy’s Rubber Band – Live In Louisville 1978
Brand New Heavies – Live in London 2009
James Brown – Love Peace Power 1971
Cameo – Nasty, Live & Funky 1996
Commodores – Commodores Live 1977
Earth Wind & Fire – Gratitude 1975
Earth Wind & Fire – Alive In 75 1975
Funkadelic – Live Meadowbrook 1971
Maze – Live In New Orleans 1980
Ohio Players – Jam 1977
Parliament – Live P-Funk Earth Tour 1977
P Funk Allstars – Live At The Beverly Theatre in Hollywood 1983
Prince – One Nite Alone 2002
Sly & The Family Stone – The Woodstock Experience 1969