Bump & Hustle Music

from the LP Tommy Stewart, Abraxas Records, 1976



What is it about a steady mid-tempo pace that makes everything feel so sultry and lascivious? I mean for real, they could be singing about Jesus and I’d still think they were trying to get in his pants, or robe, as it were. Tommy Stewart was a record producer/label owner in the Atlanta area, and although the rest of this album consists mainly of throwaway disco cuts, this track remains as one of my all-time favorite pieces of funk. The bassline and steady drumming keep your body moving, a couple of horns and a flute jazz things up a bit---but not too much, and I’m eternally glad he didn’t add any violins in the final mix, as the rest of the album is a freaking army of strings. In the liner notes to the reissue in 2003, Tommy Stewart said this track was sort of an accident, jamming in the studio to fill up album space, yet it became the only song with legs outside of that era & and persists to this day as a secret weapon for any DJs arsenal.