Jam Cruise -- This Year, Call it Funk Cruise!

Every year all my music fanboy/ girl friends tell me the same thing: GO ON JAM CRUISE!!! Frankly, you get tired of listening to them.

Well you could become one of those people who come back with epic musical tales to tell. Cruise cabins are available now, and they have an installment payment plan. 

This crazy-ass music festival at sea sails out of Miami on a giant cruise ship called the MSC Divina on January 4th - 9th 2014. The boat goes to Falmouth, Jamaica and the Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas and has a surprise act on a private island.

The lineup for this year's cruise is like Bear Creek Music and Art Festival and New Orleans Jazzfest at sea. They should call it Funk Cruise. Check it out:

Les Claypool's Duo de Twang, Thievery Corporation, Galactic, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, George Porter Jr., The New Mastersounds, The Revivalists, Anders Osborne, Rob Garza (Solo DJ Sets), Conspirator, Gigantic Underground Conspiracy, Bootsy Collins & The Funk Unity Band, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Lotus, The Wailers, Keller Williams, Keller and the Kimocks, Lettuce, Dumpstaphunk, DJ Logic and John Popper, The Infamous Stringdusters, ALO, MarchFourth Marching Band, Orgone, Pork Tornado, Bonerama, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Monophonics, Mike Dillon Band, Eric Krasno Band, Everyone Orchestra, Alan Evans Super Jam, DJ Logic, Stanley Jordan, Nathan Moore, Brock Butler, Cyril Neville, Bill Evans, Oteil Burbridge, Will Bernard, Alecia Chakour, Skerik,

Master Class At Sea: Col. Bruce, Kofi Burbridge, Butch Trucks, Victor Wooten, Luther and Cody Dickinson

All this and a boat, too?

Our friends at Jambase posted a neat compilation of all their Jam Cruise reviews since the very first sail back in 2004.  And I simply must share this video of the Portland, Oregon  burlesque acrobatic funk outfit, March Fourth Marching Band, which features some nice mermaid spanking, 'cause its a M-ther-f-kin BOAT y'all!