Dyke and the Blazers
“Let a Woman Be a Woman, Let a Man Be a Man” (Original Sound) 1969
by Wax Poetics
Buffalo’s own Arlester “Dyke” Christian enlisted a few members of the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, including inimitable sticks man James Gadson, to light a fire under this funk classic. Dyke and his band continued to cut ridiculously heavy, unabashedly groove-oriented sides for Original Sound until Dyke was shot dead on the streets of Phoenix in 1971.
