Funkiest groove laid down by a white artist/band or predominantly white band

Gadd Gang.Nothing predominant,just the best.

 

When it comes to FUNK AND GROOVE, these guys are NO JOKE...

 

Tommy Bolin

 

Loved Level 42's 'The Chinese Way'.... brilliant bass line in that.

Dunno if that is outright funk mind.

 

I’m not saying I agree with them, mind you. I might come up with something else if I gave it some thought—maybe something in this thread. At any rate, the only white-artist songs I recognize in that list of 100 are “Play That Funky Music” at #30 and “Pick Up the Pieces” at #35. There are a few artists I’ve never seen, though.

 

No one's mentioned J Geils Band yet?

 

Another great soulful funk tune from my teenage years...The Spencer Davis Group, "Gimme Some Lovin' "

 

"Expressway To Your Heart" - Soul Survivors

1967

Uncut: Expressway (To Your Heart)

 

Surely .... when they first played the US, their first gig was in NYC and were blown away when most of the audience was Afro American.

 

Medeski Martin & Wood. Hard to pick one groove of so many, but here ya go.

 

Contort Yourself!

 

People will argue which has the greater funk however today , I'm going with "Wake Up And Make Love" over "Rhythm Stick"...

 

It is a drum loop after all.

 

I grew up with the US version of "Gimme Some Lovin'," but ever since I first heard the original UK version via YouTube about five years ago, I prefer this one by far; I think it does sound more soulful:

 

(Said in my JB voice) Subscribed! Heh!! Git on da good foot!

 

Well, ain't it funky now!

 

"Shock The Monkey" by Peter Gabriel and "Kayleigh" by Marillion are pretty fly for white guys, as the modern nomenclature would have it! And of course there's that song from the 70s that goes "Play that Funky music, white boy!" That's pretty good, too.

 

Thanks...I never knew the UK version was different. I like them both...fantastic song!

 

Robert Palmer's first album is pretty funky (admittedly that's 'cuz The Meters play on it.)

 

Yes it's a crappy sampled slap bass and a Linn drum but Kevin Armstrong's rhythm playing is an absolute tour de force in funk guitar rhythm playing. The syncopation, orch hits and added percussion are killer. A trombone solo only ups the funk too.

 

I'll definitely give a +1 to Lettuce!

 

They're called Wild Cherry, and I agree.

 

Probably not the funkiest groove laid down by a white artist/band, but the opening to Mysterious Ways is possibly the funkiest groove laid down by U2...

 

The great Hansford Rowe on bass.

John Martyn was invited by Island founder Chris Blackwell to Jamaica where he met the legendary Dub producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. This lighthearted tune was written by Martyn with the legendary dub producer. He told Uncut magazine the story behind the song: "I was having breakfast with Chris Blackwell and Lee Perry, and we had this tea set and all the cups were little pigs and horses with legs. And Scratch is going, Boy, look at the muff on that!, looking at this horse. Now put this with the pig, see? Now boy, this is one big muff! And he was going on about his big muff, and how it was going to get away with the powder puff and everything. That guy's sense of humor is in the song. Its silly, Jamaican silly."