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Features Disc of the day
Tyrone Davis
Turn Back The Hands Of Time
(Dakar/London, 1970)
A well-kept secret, but immense Chicago soul satisfaction to be had right here.
Tyrone Davis started out as bluesman Freddie King's valet and, vocally, was in thrall to Bobby 'Blue' Bland, but he developed a style that hitched the Southern soul idiom to the arrangements, production and playing of Chicago soul. It was a North-South combination that often hit dazzling heights. The majority of Davis's best performances find him standing on the doorstep or working the phone, begging his woman, whom he's precipitately quit, to take him back. True, just as many of his songs celebrate love and constancy (eg. I'll Be Right Here on this album), but the more powerful and convincing storylines are those in which his narrator is an almost completely unreconstructed male facing down his demons, temptations and mistakes. His first hit, Can I Change My Mind, finds him walking out, waiting for his partner to call him back, as she's done many times before. This time she doesn't. It's a perfect short story. Turn Back The Hands Of Time, his biggest hit (Number 3 US Pop) and title track of his second album, again finds him regretting that hasty departure, those repeated infractions. He rarely finds the grass is greener. Let Me Back In also finds him "standing here knockin', baby, please let me in" after the briefest fling has ended with the 'other woman' very quickly deciding she doesn't want him after all. Outstanding tracks from the first half of the '70s pepper his time on the Brunswick subsidiary, so buy 2-CD set The Dakar Records A's and B's: The Hit Singles, to get the full picture. That way you'll hear Was I Just A Fool (not on Turn Back...), beautifully poised singing with complete understanding of and feeling for the lyric. Not everything on this album is falsehood, gloom and pleading. On easy-grinding dancer Love Bones he begs his boss to cut down on the overtime so he can "get on home to check my love bones". On which note, as the office clock chimes 6, I must be going.
Geoff Brown
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 17/03/2009
Further Listening
Jackie Wilson – This Love Is Real (Brunswick, 1970)
Johnnie Taylor – Taylored In Silk (Stax, 1973)
ZZ Hill – Let‘s Make A Deal (CBS, 1978)
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