Sentence examples for smoky funk from inspiring English sources
You can somehow see the smoky funk of a thousand stale cigarettes oozing down the walls.
The buzz: "Nao plays with … purple-hued funk, smoky neo-soul, muted washes of dubstep and other UK bass permutations but integrates them so seamlessly that the stylistic breadth barely registers" – Pitchfork.
Grinding guitar funk, gritty punk attitude and smoky decadence merge in the songs of Girls Against Boys as Scott McCloud sings about liaisons that start after hours and end with trouble.
She named the eBay page "Nasty Gal" after the 1975 album by Betty Davis — not the smoky-eyed film star Bette Davis, but the unabashedly sexy funk singer and style icon Betty, whose brief marriage to the jazz legend Miles Davis inspired the song "Back Seat Betty".
The singer with the famous sister is on a less pop-oriented, world-dominating trip, preferring funked up house and dance music to accompany her smoky, emotionally heavy tones.
Whatever the idiom — Mr. Harris's book encompasses soul, pop, funk and folk, as well as the odd show tune — his smoky baritone and easy sense of swing have communicated with audiences worldwide.
He writes fond, diffident love songs, generally strumming and singing in a sleepy, smoky voice; now and then his band revs up some garage-rock or toys with funk for comic relief.
MARLBORO The Funk Junkies, funk.
