Coffey Is The Color--Exploring The Work of Dennis Coffey

Dennis Coffey...One of the Funkiest White Boys Ever

One of greatest guitar players ever to walk the face of the Earth, Dennis Coffey was a major part of the funky sounds of Motown as he joined the fold as a session player for the label in the late 1960's.  In fact, Coffey was the guitar player on the classic Temptations track "Cloud Nine".  Solo-wise, Coffey had some great instrumental albums that were extremely funky, jazzy, and soulful (and ended up being sampled by a million hip hop artists over the years).  I recently picked up a compilation of Dennis Coffey called Absolutely The Best of Dennis Coffey, which pulls together some of Coffey's best tracks from his first four solo albums.  Below, I have included a few of Coffey's essential tracks, like "Scorpio", "Getting It On", "Theme from Enter the Dragon", and "Big City Funk".  There's plenty more where that came from in terms of Coffey's catalog, as this is just a sampling of the guitar great!