Trivia: The titular "Uncle Jam" is a parody of Uncle Sam.
The cover to the album proclaims the mission is to "rescue dance music from the blahs." This song is clearly a dance-oriented song, but is also excellent musically, with complex rhythms; it even seamlessly incorporates a traditional US Army marching tune.
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"All you inductees fall out and form some kinda line or something/I want all you young ladies to stick your chests out/And get your hips to move!"
"You said you'd be ready, if he called on you/Now he's a righteous kind of leader/Just demanding funk and groove from you"
Complete lyrics at the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/lyrics_funkadelic/lyr-unclejam.html#lyr-s-unclejam)
This is song from the point-of-view of Uncle Jam himself, the leader of the Funk Army (see P Funk mythology). The part is song by Philippe Wynne; he is the funkiest "thrill seargent" in the world and demands that his soldiers get Funky.
While "UncleJam" may not be Funkadelic's greatest album.
Philipe Wynne shines on the next song in "UncleJam." Bootsy makes his sole appearance on the album with some great lines that helps to propel the second song in a row that lasts through double digits in minutes.
After the halfway mark in the album, it is very evident that Funkadelic had evolved to band much more like Parliament in the late 70's than the incarnation that we all saw in the first part of the decade.
INVERNESS -- To Nathan Shelton and Corrine Hawke, two of the many visitors to the Uncle Sam Jam on Saturday at the Courthouse Square, the event was like an old-fashioned block party.
The Uncle Sam Jam drew a large crowd, composed mostly of locals.
The Uncle Sam Jam featured many of the county's nonprofit organizations as the food vendors, and the event turned into quite a moneymaker for clubs such as the Rotary Club of Inverness and the Citrus United Basket.
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