After crossing over into Bowie-esque blue-eyed funk on her most recent album, Daddy’s Home, St. Vincent is keeping the party going with a cover of Lipps Inc.’s disco classic, “Funky Town ...

In 1986, KKDA started promoting a weekly series of blues concerts, inviting listeners from across North Texas to “Funky Town Fort Worth.” A nickname was born.

Wassenich emailed Kennedy that when he was going to high school in Fort worth in 1967, the town was plenty funky. “Downtown used to be largely pawnshops and cheap diners.