It's easy to be nice to someone you like. It's extremely difficult to be nice to someone you hate.Like so many bits of wisdom one finds in the one's grandmother's inspirational page-a-day calendar, what is true in life applicable to funky soul as well. Any jive turkey can funkify that which is already funky, but to bring the stank to one of the least funky tracks ever set to wax, you need a master like the late Donny Hathaway, whose version of wedding band staple Misty is so soulful it sounds like it should come with a side of turnip greens.
If Johnny Mathis weren't still alive, he'd be spinning in his grave, albeit to an uncharacteristically funky rhythm.
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