Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Various Artists
The Sound Of The City: New Orleans
(EMI, 2002)
Charlie Gillett's brilliant city-themed compilations are on perma-spin chez MOJO.
Charlie Gillett's untimely departure had us reeling off the ways this uncommon broadcaster had made our lives better, and here's another. MOJO writer David Hutcheon noted in his online tribute how Gillett hated iPods, preferring to soak up the sounds of whatever locality he was in, and this brilliant compilation is a product of that geo-sociological sensitivity - a record that simply reeks of New Orleans, from the insouciant roll of Archibald's compendious Stack O Lee and the lachrymose lurch of Bobby Bland's heavenly-toned St James Infirmary. More so even than the excellent New York, Los Angeles and Chicago volumes that accompanied it, this is a paean to a homogenous musical community, and all these tunes are, although different, somehow the same, with a fonky stutter in their step and a shared conviction that we're here for a good time, not a long time. Highlights in this vein include Willie Tee's sprightly, amoral Thank You John ("Now it's all right for you to go out all night / But when he spreads that bread, be sure he spreads it right") and the late Bobby Charles' distinctly unheartbroken No Use Knocking, and it is perhaps another tribute to Gillett that he even finds a G Love & Special Sauce tune I can get behind: the slurring, twitching Bye Bye Baby. No NO compilation could claim definitive status - the story is too big, wide and tall, and there's no King Oliver or Lil' Wayne in Gillett's mix. But if 44 irresistible invitations to loucheness, programmed with all the skill of a lifelong DJ, is all you demand, this will never disappoint.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 12/04/2010
Further Listening
Various Artists - The Sound Of The City: Chicago (EMI, 2002)
Eddie Bo - In The Pocket With Eddie Bo (Vampisoul, 2008)
Lee Dorsey - Holy Cow: The Very Best Of... (Charly compilation, 2005)
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