Righteous is the 1994 debut release by North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

 funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 band DAG

DAG (band)

DAG were a funk alternative band from Raleigh, North Carolina which formed in 1989 and disbanded in 1999.The band of singer and bassist Bobby Patterson, guitarist Brian Dennis, drummer Kenny Soule and keyboardist Doug Jervey had already earned many loyal listeners around their hometown over the...

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Produced by Grammy nominee and local record producer & songwriter, John Custer

John Custer

John Custer is a record producer who produced several Corrosion of Conformity albums including Blind , Deliverance , Wiseblood , America's Volume Dealer , and In the Arms of God...

, this work of 1970s-style solid beats and creative imagination received terrific reviews. A quote from VIBE Magazine

VIBE

Vibe is a music and entertainment magazine founded by producer Quincy Jones. The publication predominantly features R&B and hip-hop music artists, actors and other entertainers...

 hailed the album as "...one of the best funk records since 1978. DAG's debut, Righteous, is definitely some of the most ass-grinding grooves you've heard since back in the day." Featured songs include "Sweet Little Lass," "Righteous (City Pain)" and "Lovely Jane." Numerous additional musicians contribute to Righteous, including Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, also known as The Swampers, are a group of American soul, R&B, and country studio musicians based in the town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama...

 drummer Roger Hawkins

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 and jazz trumpetist Jeremy Davenport

Jeremy Davenport

Jeremy Davenport is a jazz trumpetist and singer from St. Louis, Missouri. His parents were both musicians, his father a trombonist in the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Davenport was already playing the trumpet when he met jazz great Wynton Marsalis, and then studied under his father, Ellis...

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Track listing

1. Intro – 0:25
2. Sweet Little Lass (Custer) – 4:40
3. Righteous (City Pain) (Custer/Soule) – 3:37
4. Your Mama's Eyes (Patterson/Custer) – 4:03
5. Home (Custer/Dennis) - 3:23
6. Lovely Jane (Custer) - 4:47
7. You Can Lick It (If You Try) (Custer) - 5:33
8. Even So (Custer/Dennis) - 4:16
9. Plow (Custer/Dennis) - 4:13
10. Candy (Custer/Dennis/Patterson) - 3:38
11. Sat. Morning (Custer/Dennis) - 1:05
12. As (Custer/Dennis) - 3:56
13. Do Me Good (Custer) - 4:17
14. Outro (Unnamed Hidden Track) - 0:31

Personnel

• Bobby Patterson: Vocals, Bass, Wah-Wah Guitar
• Brian Dennis: Guitar, Wah-Wah Guitar, Talkbox, Coral Sitar
• Kenny Soule: Drums, Log Drum, Timbales, Tambourine, Cowbell, Glockenspiel
• Doug Jervey: Keyboards, Crumar Orchestrator, Rolands, Vibes, Mini-Moog, Univox Maxi-Korg, Hammond B-3 Organ, Pianos, Background Vocals

Additional musicians

• Jeremy Davenport
  Jeremy Davenport
  Jeremy Davenport is a jazz trumpetist and singer from St. Louis, Missouri. His parents were both musicians, his father a trombonist in the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Davenport was already playing the trumpet when he met jazz great Wynton Marsalis, and then studied under his father, Ellis...
  
  : Trumpet
• Will Campbell: Alto Saxophone
• Mark Mullins: Trombone
• Lisimba Moyenda: Percussion on "Even So"
• John Custer
  John Custer
  John Custer is a record producer who produced several Corrosion of Conformity albums including Blind , Deliverance , Wiseblood , America's Volume Dealer , and In the Arms of God...
  
  : Love Unlimited Guitar, T-Wah Guitar
• Clayton Ivey: Hammond B-3 Organ on "Candy"
• Roger Hawkins
  Roger Hawkins
  Roger G Hawkins , is an American drummer best known for playing as part of the studio backing band known as The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section of Alabama...
  
  : Drums, Tambourine, Congas
• Audley Freed
  Audley Freed
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  : Fadeout Guitar Solo on "Candy"
• Valerie Kashimura: Background Vocals on "As"
• Jewel Bass: Background Vocals on "As"
• Sean Hepler: The Prospector on "Do Me Good"