The skin crisps and blackens slightly, picking up a slight overtone of smoke and funk.
April 5 2013 April 7 201313 The weekend-long festival, April 5-7, a companion to the exhibition "Blues for Smoke," showcases young rap, hip-hop, and funk performers, most of them based in New York City.
Trondervise is stealthy jazz-funk for Brunborg to blow Garbarek-like smoke through, and the unexpectedly strutting Go Charm! allows the band to wind itself to a feverish, full-on thrash.
It was so hot in the Hemp Bar and marijuana smoke filled the whole room and they kept playing the same 70s funk CD over and over.
But then as I play more Motown, Northern Soul and New Orleans funk people start drifting off from the dancefloor to eat or to go and smoke outside.
"I don't smoke that much weed," said the renowned film director over the din of the reggae and funk tunes blasting from the sound system of the smoke-filled party bus meandering its way through Denver's wintry streets.
MARLBORO The Funk Junkies, funk.
