In 1993 Big Chief released Mack Avenue Skullgame, an "original soundtrack" for a non-existent blaxploitation film set in Detroit's Cass Corridor. The album was the band's first release after signing with Sub Pop. Thornetta Davis joins the group as a featured vocalist (singing the part of Sonica the hooker). Fully conceived with a plot, themes, and incidental music, Mack Avenue was dedicated to legendary Funkadelic guitarist Eddie Hazel, who died the year before. The album is funky and soulful, but very hard rocking. It sounds like Curtis Mayfield breaking up a… read more
In 1993 Big Chief released Mack Avenue Skullgame, an "original soundtrack" for a non-existent blaxploitation film set in Detroit's Cas… read more
In 1993 Big Chief released Mack Avenue Skullgame, an "original soundtrack" for a non-existent blaxploitation film set in Detroit's Cass Corridor. The album was the band… read more
There are several artists with this name: 1. a grunge band from Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2. a rapper from Dallas, Texas, 3. a British jazz band. 1) Not so much grunge as they were high-energy fetishists, and not so much funk-rock as they just happened to be funky, Ann Arbor, Michigan's Big Chief were slightly ahead of their time in a number of ways. Not only were they updating the sound of Detroit '69 prior to the grunge sweepstakes of the early '90s, but they gradually incorporated their fanboy obsessions with funk and Blaxploitation flicks well before the revivals caugh… read more
There are several artists with this name: 1. a grunge band from Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2. a rapper from Dallas, Texas, 3. a British jazz band. 1) Not so much grunge as they were high-energy f… read more
There are several artists with this name: 1. a grunge band from Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2. a rapper from Dallas, Texas, 3. a British jazz band. 1) Not so much grunge as they were high-energy fetishists, and not so much funk-rock as they j… read more