I-95 Drive Home Featured Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s featured artist is a fan of Funk and was inspired at a Funk show to write one of his band’s biggest hits.  How can you tell it’s Funk? He said  the words fit the rhythm and don’t need to make sense so they don’t get in the way of the song’s groove.  Can you guess the song or the group?

Let’s start with our Funk fan…Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz, and it was a P-Funk show in New York City that inspired tonight’s track. When he heard the crowd imploring the band to "Burn Down The House" he got the idea for the title. As he explained in a 1984 interview with National Public Radio (NPR), he and Talking Heads bassist Tina Weymouth, who is also his wife, created the original track in a jam, then took it to the band where they refined the groove. To form the lyrics, they picked words that fit the rhythms, which is why the words don't make a lot of sense. This is common practice in the world of Funk, where you don't want the lyrics to get in the way of the groove on a feel good song.

Groovy!

Here they are from the night of their induction to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.