What does cbdb stand for? Nobody knows — and after thirteen-plus years, the self-proclaimed purveyors of Joyfunk from Tuscaloosa, Alabama still aren't telling. But what they will tell you is that Joyfunk is the state of being when everybody's dancing, everybody's in the moment, and the back-and-forth between the band and the room becomes something you can't quite put into words — and this episode is your guide to finding it.

In this episode, Schecky traces how Cy Simonton, Kris Gottlieb, Glenn Dillard, and company built one of the Southeast's most devoted jam followings through relentless touring, a flex saxophonist who gives them a dimension no other Alabama band has, and a legendary 13.5-hour session at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals — the same room where Aretha Franklin found her voice — that produced some of the best mus ...