"Kashmere" by the Kashmere Stage Band (included on the compilation Funky 16 Corners, 2001)
This group--who performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 70s--ranks up there with Kinky Friedman and Stubbs barbecue sauce among the coolest exports ever to emerge from the Lone Star state. You will be astounded by the preternatural tightness of the rhythm section on this funky number; you will be more amazed when you think that this was a high school band! Whereas my crappy high school stage band tried to keep together on arrangements of "Birdland" or tunes from Cats, these guys could lay down grooves that invite the b-boys to lay the cardboard down and break till the brink of dawn.
For more info, check out this NPR story on the band from earlier this month.
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