Kool & the Gang: Kool's Nasty Silly
Joe McEwen, The Village Voice, 24 April 1978
YOU'D NEVER know it from their last couple of albums, but there was a time when Jersey City's Kool and the Gang had a real bead on funk. In fact, they even one-upped George Clinton and Bootsy; Kool and the Gang were the first band to recognize funk's inherent funniness.
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