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List of rare groove artists

Here is a list of rare groove artists on Spotify, ranked based on popularity, who exemplifies the rare groove genre. You can find out what rare groove genre sounds like where you can preview artists or sort them the way you want, just click the headers to sort.

#	name	Popularity	instrumentalness	danceability	energy	acousticness	Happiness	tempo	followers
1	The Cactus Channel	43	78	52	74	10	64	134	24100
2	Incredible Bongo Band	36	86	59	76	4	65	119	32749
3	Maceo And The Macks	35	13	68	66	25	95	155	12301
4	The Beginning Of The End	35	8	61	79	37	83	117	11583
5	Dee Felice Trio	32	88	65	89	35	81	110	1056
6	Mike James Kirkland	32	0	47	65	44	75	126	4957
7	Dexter Wansel	32	23	53	63	18	51	120	33574
8	Jackson Sisters	32	0	66	81	6	85	108	6269
9	Brass Construction	31	19	71	73	11	73	110	122546
10	The Movers	31	54	59	62	2	74	104	3761
11	Bileo	31	0	81	85	5	97	128	4123
12	The Jimmy Castor Bunch	30	25	69	68	34	85	117	29662
13	Bazuka	30	77	67	68	12	96	102	663
14	O'Donel Levy	30	71	61	56	68	69	110	12475
15	Gloria Ann Taylor	29	1	42	65	51	56	110	10211
16	Jackie Shane	29	0	58	58	77	56	83	14643
17	Pasteur Lappe	29	33	77	73	23	85	117	6586
18	Barrabas	28	23	72	71	3	77	117	6917
19	Googie Rene	28	37	62	79	35	77	127	2595
20	Bobby Byrd	28	2	68	67	19	75	106	27601
21	Chicago Gangsters	28	8	43	83	26	52	111	3315
22	Risco Connection	28	63	70	73	7	80	110	1994
23	RAMP	27	2	51	53	56	59	172	7104
24	Clarence Reid	27	2	64	67	22	82	103	7133
25	Crown Heights Affair	27	20	68	82	5	74	120	25398
26	Reuben Wilson	26	65	72	63	32	78	103	12927
27	Taana Gardner	26	10	77	64	21	70	99	9475
28	Leon Thomas	26	1	56	50	36	66	125	11205
29	Uncle Louie	26	8	88	80	6	96	109	1203
30	Aquarian Dream	25	15	57	71	30	74	121	6644
31	John Handy	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	3164
32	Afrique	25	5	57	69	31	74	112	4351
33	Proton	24	59	76	68	7	95	125	1352
34	Evans Pyramid	24	41	73	77	35	89	123	3813
35	Freedom Now Brothers	24	63	69	71	2	86	107	182
36	Faze-O	24	16	67	72	10	76	113	12104
37	Eugene Record	24	0	51	56	53	65	107	1757
38	Johnny Pate	23	96	62	88	6	71	118	2504
39	Carrie Cleveland	23	1	76	47	23	54	117	2201
40	The Soul Searchers	23	18	69	80	29	84	128	4543
41	The Village Callers	22	0	47	88	8	75	78	1514
42	Miroslav Vitous	22	33	51	77	20	74	121	7362
43	Rhythm Heritage	22	90	60	59	11	82	103	1984
44	Donnell Pitman	22	0	53	70	36	70	136	1267
45	Doug Hream Blunt	21	64	64	69	44	72	140	6249
46	Soul Swingers	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	346
47	Cold Blood	21	23	54	68	13	70	95	9982
48	Dennis Coffey	21	58	68	75	9	73	118	12882
49	Otis Brown	20	0	73	66	88	94	114	1454
50	Sugar Billy	19	0	66	66	15	82	117	641
51	Stephen Encinas	19	16	61	78	19	82	125	1502
52	African Music Machine	19	83	74	76	15	94	117	2816
53	Creative Source	19	1	70	57	15	79	114	3815
54	Harlem River Drive	18	0	46	48	49	57	118	2660
55	Winfield Parker	18	0	54	57	43	61	101	600
56	Harlem Underground Band	18	25	57	86	9	84	115	3423
57	100% Pure Poison	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	1142
58	Joe Thomas	16	41	60	62	35	82	142	8376
59	Skull Snaps	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	9016
60	Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul	16	3	71	78	5	92	113	2020
61	Vicki Anderson	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	3693
62	Sarah Webster Fabio	15	1	62	54	26	77	119	1643
63	Sweet Charles	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	629
64	The Whole Darn Family	15	26	59	72	20	73	106	1568
65	Billy Hawks	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	312
66	Melvin Van Peebles	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	2365
67	The Counts	14	0	67	51	51	78	148	789
68	20th Century Steel Band	14	16	72	36	42	56	119	1096
69	Carolyn Franklin	14	0	65	61	38	95	112	1827
70	The Last Minister	14	5	73	74	4	65	116	1102
71	G.C. Cameron	13	42	68	67	24	87	97	1002
72	Michael Longo	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	671
73	Lightnin' Rod	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1467
74	Myra Barnes	12	73	64	71	36	82	100	1028
75	Bobby Williams	12	0	72	75	1	94	119	618
76	Yellow Sunshine	12	0	62	84	3	81	120	395
77	Rasputin's Stash	12	1	54	65	15	68	144	3143
78	Manzel	11	75	70	77	5	80	113	1158
79	Maceo And All The King's Men	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	3514
80	S.O.U.L.	11	26	56	55	10	77	115	1479
81	Gene Page	11	86	69	84	11	90	104	1301
82	Greg Perry	11	12	48	59	8	56	85	1135
83	Sahara All Stars Band Jos.	11	0	63	83	21	81	114	369
84	The Propositions	10	87	53	89	0	62	102	291
85	Merchant	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	1654
86	Redd Holt Unlimited	9	74	71	78	8	94	98	203
87	Black Nasty	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	1900
88	Jo Tongo	8	4	70	73	36	73	119	508
89	Buddy Miles Express	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	8543
90	Mandingo	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	654
91	Sweet Thunder	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	245
92	Southside Movement	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	641
93	Betty Griffin	7	0	71	95	39	92	119	80
94	Ricardo Marrero	7	92	78	41	63	23	111	472
95	The Mighty Ryeders	7	0	46	94	7	94	113	3258
96	Exit 9	6	0	63	63	24	49	121	892
97	Seldon Powell	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	145
98	Eddy Senay	6	90	77	48	67	90	97	777
99	Charlie Whitehead	6	0	72	70	16	79	99	394
100	Calender	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	141
101	The Two Things in One	5	0	48	63	24	80	93	159
102	Sound Experience	5	1	66	80	0	76	112	1262
103	The Politicians	5	0	61	89	2	61	159	209
104	The Pazant Brothers	5	1	69	67	11	89	104	783
105	JC Davis	5	96	65	78	7	95	114	235
106	Coke Escovedo	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	874
107	Soul Brothers Inc.	4	2	58	71	64	78	115	189
108	Ray Camacho & The Teardrops	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	273
109	Fruit	4	0	54	77	0	54	120	248
110	Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1339
111	Pat ́Ndoye	4	20	73	67	1	94	129	57
112	The Believers	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	68
113	Willie Wright	3	0	53	40	80	58	131	84
114	Jimmy Hyacinthe	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	638
115	L T G EXCHANGE	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	87
116	Zebra	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	46
117	Jesse Henderson	2	0	63	78	28	67	114	85
118	Dunn Pearson Jr.	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	134
119	Experience	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	37
120	Jesse Anderson	2	75	71	72	26	83	92	126
121	Joe Washington	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	103
122	Detroit Jr.	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	93
123	Afro Kelenkye Band	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	133
124	Robbie Hill's Family Affair	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	165
125	Herman Kelly	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	277
126	J.R. Funk & The Love Machine	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	166
127	Little Mack	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	40
128	Brock Landers	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	200
129	Alley Pat	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	22
130	Ben & The Platano Group	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	166
131	Moody Scott	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	122
132	LJ Reynolds	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	426
133	B-H-Y	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	79
134	Foundars 15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	125
135	Ramsey & Company	0	0	53	77	26	84	119	77
136	Gregory Jolly	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17
137	Brisko The Kidd	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	30

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