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Bootsy Collins, positively helping to keep the funk alive
By: Taylor Haney | Rachel Martin | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — “We’re off tour, we’re depressed, we’re making no money,” recalls Adam Deitch, drummer for the funk band Lettuce, of those early lockdown days. Around that same time, the legendary funk bassist Bootsy Collins had started posting messages of positivity to Instagram, “just saying,” Deitch remembers, “‘hang tight, be cool, and keep… Read More