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OK, so they weren’t from Los Angeles — The L.A. Carnival, who got their name off the initials of frontman/singer Lester Abrams, cut all the material on this album in a studio in Omaha sometime between 1969 and 1971. But even a band in Nebraska could stir up some heavy funk back then, especially as a mixed-race group unafraid to hit social issues dead-on (“The Klan”; “We Need Peace and Love”; “Blind Man”). Brassy and bottom-heavy in a way that could unite casual Chicago fans with Kool & the Gang diehards, this shoulda-been-an-album anthology proves that surprisingly great local funk bands could be found just about anywhere.