released in the US by Now-Again records - this is from the UK label Jazzman records - who first issued this comp... It was only a couple of years ago that I, like many other DJs, collectors and funk enthusiasts spread across the world, thought Texas was home only to country & western and Tex-Mex music. How wrong I was. Funk 45 fever was beginning to grip the world, prices were reaching stratospheric levels for just one 45, and I started to read the small print on the record labels in order to try and track them down. And of all the 1000s of funk 45s made during the golden years of 1968 - 1974, more and more I began to notice that the rarest and the best appeared to come from Texas. And so with veteran collector Malcolm Catto, we decided to investigate further, tracking down the labels, studios, producers and the artists themselves in order to release the definitive anthology of Texas funk. And now, after spending a great deal of time wandering around in the hot Texas desert, we've finally finished. To undertake a project of this scale from the UK inevitably involves extensive travel and hefty phone bills, but in so doing we were lucky to meet several of the artists, producers and their families who were responsible for some of the finest music ever created of this type. For many of them their minds were turned back for the first time in over 30 years to when they made what was often their only recording. And now their music will enjoy the exposure it deserves, a far cry from the pressing of maybe only 200 copies of a 45 sold only at local gigs. You'll be able to hear the fire and passion that went into music that was made purely for the love of it. That's what Texas Funk is all about!