FUNKY TO THE BONE is a collaboration between two well-traveled musical traditions and two old friends: sweet soul music and horn-band funk n roll. Guest artists include Billy Payne from Little Feat, Hazel Miller from Big Head Todd's band, Carl Carwell from Earth Wind & Fire, Christian Teele from E Town and so much more. The roots are in Earth, Wind & Fire, Chicago 67 and Sam and Dave but this sound is different, new and fresh. The Kings are different from The Soulsetters or the Freddi Henchi Band of the 1970s and we are indebted to that music and those players. But we didn’t want this album to be a reincarnation of that sound. The Kings with Randy, Kevin, Bones, Jim and Doody took some of the best tunes from those Freddi Henchi days and combined them with new songs and new sounds to create FTTB. It’s a coming together of Sly Stone with BS&T and the Saturday Night Live Band. It has the punch of funk n roll, the sounds of the horn-band songbook I learned at the feet of mentors like Al Kooper and the crunchy r